Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1891 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1891.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1891.

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The Louisville Courier-Journal says "the object of the McKinley bill is to restrain our foreign commerce." If that is trno the bill will be a great failure. In the Senate just now the Demo cratic party is having all the fun, while the Republican party has all the reeponsibility. It is hardly a square di vide. 1ie next time the Democrats attempt to steal a State they will not be likely to select New Hampshire as a field of operation. That is where Serator Chand ler resides. As the new Democratic Legislature gazes npon the hole where the State treasury ought to be it probably realizes the fact that it is a condition and not a theory that confronts it. It is unfortunate for General Miles that he hasn't an opportunity to read all the newspapers in the country. Dozens of them have told just how to settle the Indian war right away, and without bloodshed. If the Democratic members of the Legislature would hold an evening school to study the lesson which the Republican Governor has given them re garding taction they will gam valua ble information. WniLE it is very probable that the mass of Democrats regard Mr. Cleveland as a valuable asset of the Demo cratic party, an increasing number of leaders are coming to regard him as a serious liability. It i3 noted, in passing, that the Republican gathering the other day neglected to thank the Farmers' Alliance of Indiana for its celebrated political services against the common enemy to jood government during the late campaign. The Governor makes a large number of good suggestions to the Legislature, all of them in the interest of the general public. It is 8a fo to say that the best of these suggestions are the ones least likely to be followed by the Democratic majority. ' 5TnE State oflicials have been prevented from taking proper action against White Caps owing to tho lack of. proper legis lation. The suggestion of the Governor that laws be passed will be ignored. Democrats will not legislate against their party brethren. Let it be remembered that when the Democrats in the Senate were asked to support a resolution limiting the number of employes about the Legislature to that specified by law, and the compensa tion to a reasonable sum for such serv ice, they refused to a man. The row in the Nebraska Legisla ture,, al though originating on different grounds, brings up reminiscences of the proceedings of tho Green Smith gang in the Indiana Assembly fonr years ago. One difference lies in tho fact that in the Nebraska case the Democrats finally submitted to the law. The Republicans had got the finances of Ohio in good shape when tho Demo cratic regime came in, a year ago, and tho result ia that Governor Campbell tells tho Legislature that the receipts from taxation will be exceeded by the expenditures at least a half million dollars. Democracy and deficiency are syncnyms. Tiie new Governor In Michigan sug gests to the Legislature of that State that it devise a more expeditious method cf counting ballots after election. If such a change is desirable in Michigan, it is certainly so in this State, whero the by stem is tedious. At least, a prelimi nary count might bo made for the public information, to bo followed by the pres ent eomowhat complicated system. Ox Thursday the Cincinnati Enquirer gave special prominence to an interview of one 01 its correspondents with exGovernor Gray, chiefly upon tho Demo cratic candidacy in 1892. Governor Gray's statements as the leading Demo crat aro significant. It will deceive no one. who understands how adroit the ex-Governor is, because he has given the correspondent tho views of an alleged letter-writer as those of a largo number n Democrats who aro hostile to Mr. foreland, becanso those who know tho

en-Governor's methods know that hob

spenking his own objections to Mr.

Cleveland, the chief of which is that ho affiliates so closely with the mugwumps, to the exclusion of Democrats. A large part of the interview is devoted to im pressing the fact that New York is essential to a Democratic victory in 1892, and that the candidate must be selected with a view to carrying that State; and the idea which runs through the whole of this part of the interview is that Mr. Cleveland ia not the man. When the remark is dropped that Governor Hill is well thought of in Indiana one reads between the lines that the interview is a sign of the combination forming to set aside Mr. Cleveland. THE OOVESSOB'3 MESSAGE. The Governor's message has every merit that such a paper ought to have. It is comprehensive in scope,' concise in style, clear and explicit in its recommendations, and confined exclusively to State adairs and interests. Few men now living have been identified with State affairs as long and in as many public capacities as Governor Hovey, and it is no perfunctory praise to say that every recommendation contained in his message bespeaks political experience and sincere devotion to the honor and welfare of the State. If the Legislature would enact them into laws as fully and promptly as possible, and then adjourn, it would earn the thanks of the people. Among the important recommenda tions are amendments of the election law, so as to remove grave constitutional objections and reduce the cost of elec tions; the passage of a fee-and-salary law; free text-books in the public schools; affair apportionment of the State; the appointment of a State board of railroad commissioners; a new road law; reform in prison management; a remodeling of the judiciary system; nonpartisan management of the State insti tutions, and a thorough reform in the management of the State finances. The publio will read with interest what the Governor has to say on all these topics. The most pressing and important one at present is the State finances, and, without wasting any words, the Governor presents it very strongly. He shows that since 1877 the revenues of the State have not been equal to its expenses, and that long-continued borrowing has piled up a large debt and caused a regularly recurring annual deficit. . To furnish the largelyincreased revenue that is absolutely necessary to enable the State to meet its obligations and begin the reduction of its debt he recommends that new sources of revenue be sought, and especially that new taxes be laid on the corporations doing business. in the State. In support of this recommendation the Governor cites the example of New York, which by taxing corporations raises '$1,172,599 a year; of New Jersey, which raises $1,210,192, and of Con necticut, which raises $1,243,094. "The contrast in the amount collected on railroads in Connecticut and Indiana," says the Governor, "is very striking. Con necticut, in round numbers, has 1,010 miles of rail way and receives a revenue from it of $671,820. Indiana has 5.9C1.C8 miles of railway and receives only $83,715.21. Wisconsin has 7.720 miles, which nearly pays all the expenses of the State, and her lands are not taxed for State purposes." Certainly this opens a great field for financial statesmanship in ludiana. Unless these sources of revenue arn fully utilized, the Governor says it will, be necessary to increase the general tax levy to 25, cents on the hun dred dollars, and in this he is undoubtedly right. Tho Governor calls the attention of the Legislature to a most flagrant violation of law and of the Constitution by the directors of the State Prison North, iu expending over $18,000 for improve ments without any authorization of the Legislature. There can be no expediency which could warrant these officers in thus assuming the functions of the Legislature, which is the only constitutional power to appropriate money, and men in official capacity who have committed this gross offense should be pun ished, unless the dominant party in Indiana is going to ignore all the laws and the Constitution. The directors who have expended $i8,000 without legislative warrant are gnilty of as grave an offense, from a constitutional view, as if they had proceeded to build a new prison or to build one in another town. It remains to bo seen what , the Demo cratic Legislature will do with the offending officers. It cannot afford to sanction by silence so pernicious a pre cedent. Other recommendations of the mes sage, of varying degrees of importance, will call for comment hereafter. THE SHIPPING BILL. The shipping bill which is now before the House is being assailed by the Dem ocrats as though it weresome new de vice to rob the treasury, when it is nothmg of the sort. In fact, the bill simply provides that our government shall do in a limited manner what Great Britain and other leading European gov ernments have done for years pay sub sidies of special rates for carrying ocean mails, in order to establish steamship lines to stimulate trade. In no other nation is there a question regarding the wisdom of this policy, bnt here tho entire Democratic party in Congress assails the proposition. It is at war with the hide-bound and reactionary animus of the old Democracy which leads It to oppose all innovations and all real progress. The Democratic opposition is the lingering spirit of the pod-auger days of the Democracy when it fought the chartering of railroads and tho ex penditure of public money in construct ing interstate turnpikes. Moreover, the Democratic opposition is stimulated by that demagogy which seeks to make political and sectional capital out of every question presented. The question is: "Shall we take the same measures to encourage foreign trade as do other nations!" There is no other element in the question. If not, it is 'of little use to make reciprocal treaties or to expect an increaso of our foreign trade when it can be extended to advantage. The object of tho bill is to encourage tho establishment of independent lines of

ships to South . American ports. We purchase vastly " more of the South American countries than they purchase of us, because we reach them by foreign ships, and often by the way of Liverpool. The leading articles which South America purchases of us are the products of agriculture. All reports indicate that these peoples will take more of these articles if we can reach them directly. 'The Springers, the Dockerys and other demagogio Democrats of the West are urging that the shipping bill is only in the interests of the Eastern ship-owner and manufacturer, and that it is of no consequence to Western people. This is the argument of demagogues, and in thiscaseit is a falsehood because the agriculturists have more to ship abroad than has the rest of the country, and therefore, the better the means of communication the wider market and better demand they will have. The shipping bill is a national measure.

MR. CLEVELAND AND FRUGALITY. When we see the extravagance of publio expenditure fast reaching the point of reckless vraste. and the undeserved distribu tion of public money debauching its recipi ents, and by pernicious example threatening the destruction of the love of frugality among the people, we will remember that "economy in the publio expense" is an important article in the true Democratic faith. The foregoing is from Mr. Cleveland's speech in Philadelphia, Thursday night. He undoubtedly had reference to the public money paid out as pensions. He probably intended an assault upon the disability pension law and the dependent pension bill for veterans of the Union army, which he vetoed, after approving a more sweeping measure in favor of Mexican veterans than the present Con gress dared pass in favor of the Union veterans. By his approval, a law exists which pensions all Mexican veterans sixty-two years of age, even if they were subsequently in the confederate army. At a time when the people are saving more money than usual, as shown by the reports of savings banks and buildingand loan associations, there seems to be no special cause to deplore "the destruction of love of frugality among the people," but if it is to be done, if tears are to be shed over the degeneracy of the masses, o KfitiAiinf 4Tia nlmieeinn 4" r xv lii oil IB $10, seems a very unfortunate place, by way of example, to doit. But yet, the general lament of Mr. Cleveland, as quoted, may have its uses. Indiana has a Democratic Legislature which has just convened. There is an impression that most of the members hold Mr. Cleveland as the Democratic prophet, priest and king. He says that "economy in public expense is an important article in true Democratic faith." There is reason to believe that Democratic legislatures in the past have not been true to that faith. If any Democrat will look through the Auditor's reports and in the pages devoted to the expenditures for public institutions, or, rather, to the portions of public institutions occupied by officials, he hiust come to the conclusion that the Democratio managers have not walked in the light of the true Democratic faith. Ho will find expensive carriages, fine horses, luxurious furnishings many thousand dollars' worth--which would not have been paid for by the tax-payers of Indiana had the reverence of Jeffersonian simplicity governed the action of tho purchasers. Mr. Cleveland now stems enamored of this Democratic economy and "frugality." He doubtless would have the Democrats of Indiana's Legislature practice it. ' He would have them remember that "economy in public expense is an important article in the true Democratic faith." 5ut will they do it, or go on as have their Democratic predecessors! . THE CITY SHOULD OWN ITS PLAHT. Beyond any doubt the city would save very largely by owning its own electriclight plant, and if it were in a condition to justify a present investment to the necessary extent that would be the proper thing to do. If there would be any advantage in reserving an option to purchase a plant at the end of ten years there would be much greater advantage in putting in one at the beginning. A committee has been . appointed in the Philadelphia City Council to formulate a plan by which that city may be come the owner of its own electric plant. It is claimed as the result' of careful in quiry that the city can light its streets at an average cost of 17 cents per light each night. It is stated that one plant can be established at a cost of $250,000 which will furnish 2,000 lights at a cost . . not to exceed annually $75,000, including interest on the cost of construction. These figures include the cost of laying wires and all the incidentals of construc tion. The plant of the Wissaiiickon Electric-light Company was begun two years ago with a capacity of one hun dred lights. The cost of real estate, construction and plant did not exceed $20,000. The first year only five lights were put in operation, but to do this over seven miles of wire were laid. The full capacity of the plant is now in use. and the average cost for the time in use is 17 cents per night per light.. All over that amount is clear gain to the com pany. Of course, the greater the capac ity of the plant the greater would be the first cost, but the subsequent average cost per light would not differ great ly. The Journal does not vouch for the accuracy of the statements made in the Philadelphia Council, but they go to show the drift of intelligent public opinion. Every consideration of good busi ness sense and municipal progress is in favor of the city owning its own light ing plant and controlling the whole business. SHRINKAGE OP RAILWAY PROPERTY. Despite the fact that the railroads of the country never earned so much money as they did in the year 1890, it was a period during which an unprece dented number of railroad properties yielded to the inevitable by either being put in the hands of receivers or actually sold under foreclosure. During 1890 twenty-six railroad companies, with nearly 3,000 miles of track and $105,000,000 of securities, became practically insolvent and were put into the hands of receivers. None of the lines were well known, but they were built, for the most part, under the high pressure of the booms in railroad construction, which

finally culminated at the close of 18S7. Eventually somo of the lines will have more value than now, but at present some of them are little better for the owners and investors than so much buried money. In time they will be sold under the hammer. But the lines referred to do not measure the entire shrinkage of the year. The property of twenty-nine companies, with 3,825 miles of main track and $182,500,000 of stock and bonds, were sold under foreclosure daring the year 1890. The largest victim was the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas road, with 1,223 miles of track and a stock and bonded indebtedness of $60,000,000, or about $19,000 a mile. The Ohio, Indiana & Western, with 341 miles of track and nearly $25,000,000 of

stocks and bonds, is the second in the list in importance which was sold under foreclosure last . year. The Chicago & Atlantic, with : 247 miles of track and nearly $20,000,000 of alleged securities, was one of the bestknown properties that went under the hammer. The other lines are scattered over the West and South. It is fair to assume that the stock in this aggregate of railroad property which has gone into insolvency represents very little money, the roads being built on the proceeds of the bonds, which are often sold at a large discount, since no road built in a comparatively new country in recent years could cost $40,000 or $50,000 a mile, or more than half that sum. Nevertheless, the loss of .money by bondhold ers must bo very great in the aggregate in such properties, and much of it will fall upon comparatively small investors who were induced to purchase on the representations of boom agents. CONGRESS AND COINAGE. It is understood that the recent de mand for free silver coinago made on the mint at Philadelphia was for the purpose of laying a foundation for a suit to test the constitutionality of the present law, under which gold enjoys free coinage while silver does not. However opinions may differ as to the policy of jthe law, there can be no reasonable doubt as to its constitutionality. Under the provision of the Constitution which gives Congress power 'to coin money and regulate the value thereof," it has entire control of the question. Its power in this regard has never been seriously questioned. The Philadelphia North American, in some commeuts on the question, grvS the following inferma-. tion, apparently furnished by the mint: The act ot 18.r3, reducing fractional silver to a token coinage, prohibited the coinage of such silver on private account. This was done to prevent speculation in the money metals. By reduction in weight the frac tional silver gave the government a "protit" of about 8 per cent, which proht. or "seigniorage," was periodically covered into the treasury. The reduction was made to keeptbe silver from -leaving the country. We undervalued it br our ratio of sixteen to one, because elsewhere silver was coined on the ratio of fifteen and a halt to one. Hence, our silver coins prior to and for several years after that period 1S53 commanded a premium of abont 3 per cent.. measured by gold. The coinage of the silver dollar ceased, or nearly ceased, on that account. The government was forced to reduce the fractional silver in weight or lose its currency. Having done that, it limited the legal tender to a Ptnall sum, and prohibited coinage of the debased coin except on its own account. In 1873 the weight of fractional silver was sugbtlyiincreated to correspond to the small silver coins of the Latin union. That is to say. the dime is half a franc, the quarter-dollar a franc and a quarter, the half-dollar two and a half francs. But as this is on a ratio of 15 to 1, there remained a considerable seigniorage, and snvb silver was only coined on government account under the act of 1S73. But the develop ment of silver deposits made it necessary to market silver, and that was thought to have been provided for by the trade dollar. Section 21 of the act of provided that any owner of silver bullion .conld present it at the mint and nave it coined into trade dollars, "owner's account," but that no other coins should be struck on private ac count This section was repealed, as regards the trade dollar, in 18S7, and that coin was abolished. The law of 1873 reStored the silver dollar of 412 grains, and made It a legal tender in any amount. The prohibition of its coinage on private aocount was added, and since that time no silver has been coined on private account. All silver presented at the mint is pur chased at a rate based on the market price and fixed by the Director of the Mint. The decline in the price of silver has been so marked for many years that the coinage has yielded nearly 570,000,000 of profits to the treasury since 1878. These profits represent the difference between the value of the silver dollar as bullion and its legaltender value, l hese pronts have gone into the treasnry. and are represented in the currency based on them. They now benefit the general public, lbe demand for free coinage is a proposition to allow owners of buluou to put these enormous profits in their pockets. Messrs. Morse and Merrick. representing others, simply proposed to de posit 50I4.&U worth of silver at the mint, and receive over the counter 646.45 for it. We hope that is plain, even to a silver man. Five hundred ounces of fine silver was worth, at the mint and in market, on Saturday, $517.50. The price demanded by Messrs. Morse and Merrick was 8046.45. This dif ference arises from the legal ratio of 16 to 1. or $1.2tfJ9 per fine ounce, and the market value of the metal, which was, on baturday, as stated, cloj per tine ounce. A RUSH FOR RAILR0ADPA8SE3. The railroad superintendents and local offices of this city are in trouble. The Journal has information that they are overrun with applications for free passes from members of the Legislature. The word is that they are "swamped." As the Legislature is overwhelmingly Democratic in both branches, the swamping doubtless comes from Democratic members. There are several reasons for this rush for free transportation. In the first place, the members all want to go home Sundays to get a change of linen and an extra pair of socks, and to give their con stituents a chance to congratulate them on the fine impression they are making at the capital. But how can they go home without transportation, and how can they pay for trans portation when they are out of funds and there is no money in the treasury to pay them! They cannot hypothecate their pay accounts nor pawn their vouchers. It will. take some time to replenish the treasury by the favorite Democratic method of borrowing money, and yet the members must go home. There is nothing left but to ask for free Another reason doubtless is that mem bers do not wish to act ud fairly towards the railroads. This is a Democratic reform Legislature, and, of course, the reformers intend to bear down heavily on the railroads. They are opposed to all kinds of corporations, and are under solemn pledges to their constituents to make the railroads come to time. Now, it would not be right to legislate on this subject in the heat of passion. It is much better and

more statesmaniiKe lor memDers to establish pleasant relations with the railroads and show them that they have no personal feeling against them. After they get their session passes they will be in a position to act impartially and legis

late solely for the public welfare, as Democratic legislators always do. One can easily see that there are excellent reasons for the present rush for railroad passes. When it is over we may look for some able speeches against these, soulless monopolies. How fortunate Indiana would be if the Governor conld make, in regard to any of its railroads, such a statement as the following from the message of Gov. Fifer, of Illinois, relative to the Illinois Central. He says: Under the wise provision.. which retained to the State, m consideration of the franchise and valuable lands granted to this company, an interest to the extent ot 7 per cent, of the gross earnings of the road, to be paid annually into the State treasury, there has been paid to the State, all told, for the years from' 1855 to l&O, inclusive, the sum of $12,865,618. Upon the $40,000,000 of capital stock of the company paid in there was paid as dividends in the same period the sum of $64,782,857, showing that an amount slightly exceeding 19 per cent, of the total paid as dividends on such $40,000,000 of paid-in stock has been turned into the State treasury; or a sum equal to lb.03 per cent, of the whole sum paid both to the State and upon stock. The last vear the State's 7 per cent, of gross earnings paid amounted to $46,2S1, and on said $40,000,000 of stock were distributed as dividends $2,400.000. the State's portion being Dearly 17 per cent, of the whole amount so paid. The showing for the last six months ending Oct 81. 1S90. gives the State as its 7 per cent of earnings $257,219. or at a rate which would make the income of the State from this source over $500,000 per year, exceeding in amount any other half year in the history of the road. The State's revenue from this source in 1890 was $486,281, and the Governor thinks that hereafter it will not fall be low $500,000 a year. . This is probably the most remarkable case on record of the grantors of a franchise looking out m at a am . . mm ior toe interests ot the people and ot posterity. The regular heading of the Demo cratic paper referring to the action of the New Hampshire Legislature is: "Republicans Steal a Governor." In no sense can this bo true, since, if a plurality 6hould elect, the Republican candidate has ninety-three more votes than the Democratic. As to the Legislature, after full hearing, the non-partisan Supreme Court, composed of men of both parties, unanimously refused to instruct the Clerk of the House in regard to making up the roll of members. In making up the roll the Clerk put on all the names of the Representatives elected by increased population in cities, in accordance with the decision of the House judiciary committee ten years ago under similar cir cumstances, the report being drawn in that case by Mr. Bingham, who is the leading Democratic lawyer in the State. The United States Senator will be a Republican. Tub other day the New York Evening. Post assailed President Harrison for removing the efficient Indian Agent MoGillicuddy after Mr. Cleveland had re tained him during his term because he was an excellent man for the place, and it improved upon its supposed opportunity in the most approved mugwump style. But the next day the Post had been informed and acknowledged its error, confessing that Mr. Cleveland bad removed the efficient McGillicuddy. And it might have added that Cleveland put a very inefficient Democrat in his place. The Board of State. Charities would report favorably concerning the Eastern Insane Hospital if the Blount murder could bo explained away. But, unfort unately, that explanation not only can not be made, but "accidents" of similar nature are likely to occur there and in the other hospitals eo long as the employes are selected for political reasons. Nevertheless the Democratic Legislature will ignore Governor Hovey's advice to place the benevolent institutions on a non-partisan basis. They prefer to be responsible for more murders. One of the bumptious young men who have taken charge of the Democratic party in Massachusetts, under the assumption that it is a Cleveland party, is a member of the Massachusetts House, and on being chosen chairman of the Democratic caucus committee declared that he could not accept unless assured that J. H. Mellen was not recognized in Democratic councils. He was so assured, and Mr. Mellen is out of the fold. Mr. Mellen is one of the most prominent representatives of labor in Massachu setts. The cheerful report comes from Kan sas that the leaders of the so-called People's party are divided into two hostile factions over the alleged Turner letter, it being held to be an evidence of high treason on the part of McGrath and his followers. The whole leadership is a crowd of 'greedy men, whose most pronounced characteristic is their distrust of each other. Knowing each other, this distrust is the most sensible thing about them. So long as an American citizen has to fly from one Southern State for safety. and two others in another Stite are ordered to leave their business and property or die, in a single week, is there not a suggestion of cheek in the national House committee on foreign relations worrying itself about the wording of a resolution relative to the policy of Rus sia in expelling JewsT TnE Louisville Commercial says that for many yeais past a modified form of woman suffrage has existed in Kentucky, widows having children of school age being entitled to vote for school trustees. In that regard Kentucky is ahead of Indiana, but if widows with children of school age should vote for school trustees,' why should not married women with husbands to look after be permitted to vote for all public official at Married women may not be as interesting as widows, but they have rights. Now comes another German scientist. Professor Virchow, and gives the results of twenty-one post-mortem examinations made by him of peraons who died after receiving injections of Professor Koch's lymph. Dr. Virchow declares that the injection increases the bacilli in the body, and causes them to migrate to previously uuaflected parts of the body, thus virtually generating anew affection. He also states that the fluid invariably causes interne hyperemia

of various parts, with the result that the patient's life becomes endangered. When scientists disagree, who shall decidef A Michigan family is the latest to suffer from the hired girl-Rocgh-on-Rata-biscuit combination. It is, perhaps, too much to say that a family which provides Rough on Rats to be set alongside the baking-powder can ought to be poisoned; but when it does so, and gives a new hired girl free swing it has, at least no cause for surprise when its stomach is griped. Mr. Matthew Riciiey Knight expresses the opinion in a current magazine that To stoop to the world ami drift With the world and it decree Is easier than to lift The world and its vote to thee. It is to be inferred from this that Mr. Knight found it a cold day when returns from the late lamented election came i'l.

The eleventh annual report of the tomato pack in the United States shows that the total output in 1890 was 3,166,177 cases, of which Indiana stood third in the list of States, packing 43.920 cases. Singularly enough, the small State of Maryland headed the list with 919,157 cases, and little New Jersey followed with 815,485. Rev. Mr. Macqueary, of Canton, O., may be a heretic from an ecclesiastical stand-point, but if he lives up to his creed, as expounded by himself, he is a good enough Christian for ever-day life, and that is the main thing, theological courts to the contrary notwithstanding. A great cry has been raised in some cities because the electric lines of street railway have become blocked for an hour or so at a time by heavy falls of snow. However, an electrio car can be blocked for an hour or two and still beat a mule car several lengths on a mile trip. Subscriber, Centerville: The man concerning whom you inquire is dead. The Journal is unable to answer your other questions. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. The Modern Plea. What defense is Blgsars going to make In his breaoh-of-promiw suit! InRanityf 'Oh, no. lie claims he was hypnotized. Safe. . Tommy Does your ma ever go through your pockets lookin fer cigarettes! Jimmy Naw. 6he don't smoke the same kind as me. - Beyond Bis Imagination. "Yon can't imarlne how I love my boy, said the fond mother. ' "That's so,' answered the old bachelor. "I'm sure I wouldn't know how to love him. Haven't the least idea, in fact Advantage of Education. Watts There's not so much advantage In this universal education idea as some people think. If a man is Inherently bad, educaUon won't make him any better. rotts No; but it will enable him to keep our of jail. Too Mncli to Ask. Mr. Wickwlre It seems to me that we could get along without a girL You ought to be able to attend to all that Mary Ann does. Mrs. Wickwire No. I couldn't. I might be able to flirt with either the butcher or the milkman, but I am sure I couldn't manage them both as Mary Ann does. Unconsidered Trifles. If there really Is any foundation for all these Jeers of a ribald and perhaps envious prens, it must be a wise Chicago chUd that krows aU Its step-fathers. Politicians anxious to know the number of men the Fanners Alliance can put Into the field should reserve their estimates until spring plowing begins. - - " , The sinaU boy learning to play the 'bones has a rattling good time of It, though the rest of the family do not. Just what Induced the London Times to rush to the defense of the American Indian is no easy matter to determine. The Indian vote In England surely cannot be veiy heavy. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Rubinstein is literally dying of melancholy. He professes most profound disdain and disgust for life. Justin McCarthy, the Irish Home-ruler, literary man and novelist, is fif ty-nineyears old. lie is small, physically, but the concentration of energy. Ax Atchison woman recently fell in love with and married a widower, for no other reason, she says, than that he took such good care of his first wife's grave. President Thwing, of the Western Reserve College, has declared himself earnestly opposed to any step that even looks like giving up Greek in toe colleges. Governor Goodell, of New Hampshire, recently presented each of hia council with a handsomely-wrought carving-knife and fork, made especially for them at his factory at Antrim. . The melodious name of Grace Greenwood is now more closely allied to works of charity than to literary labors. She still writes it little, but can usually be found where sorrow and suffering hold sway. Mr. Abbey has made arrangements with Sarah Bernhardt for a three-years' tour, including two visits to this country. She will probably appear in Now York early in February, and sail for Australia from San Francisco in May. Governor Watterman, of California, has surpassed all previous Governors of the State in pardoning criminals. In the last forty-six days of his term he has pardoned sixty-two convicts, including murderers, robbers and other, Miss Xavier, who formerly held the position of instructor in Spanish at Wellesley College, has received the appointment of secretary to the French and Spanish consulate at Boston. She is the first woman ever put in an official place of this kind. Mrs. Maggie Van Cott. the old-time Methodist revivalist, is now holding meetings in Chicago. She is sixty-one years old, and for a quarter of a century has been active in church work. Her voice is clear and strong, and her complexion has the hue of health. Mrs. Harrison never touches wine, punch or liquor of any description, and if her wishes were carried ont the strongest beverage served at the White House state dinners aud banquets would bo Apollinaris water. On the President's private table wine is never served. The death of Prince Alfred, son of the Duke of Edinburgh, who is in bad health, would disarrange the succession to the duchy of fcaxe-Coburg-Gotha. The next in line is the boy's uncle, the Duke of Connaught, and after him comes the little son of the late Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany. Miss Pickxey, who is at the bead of Margaret Winthrop Hall, in Cambridge, Mass., is doing good work in the way of making s pleasant abiding-place for girls away from home at school. Many of the Cambridge Bchool-girls live there. The idea is to separate borne and school life as completely as possible. Sir Charles Dilkr has accepted an invitation from the Societe d'Etaaes Sociales et Politiques to lectnre in Brussels in the French tongue on the position of the work ing classes in the British colonies. No doubt bnt they will get a good addresa. lie is under a cloud, but he is an able man. and at this time the Liberals have sorely felt the need ol mm. Thk Bon Marche in Paris possesses prob ably the largest kitchen in the world. It provides food for all the employes of the bonse, 4.000 in number. The smallest ket tle holds sevent3'-uve quarts, the largest 375 quarts. There are fifty frying paus, each of which is capable of cooking 300 cut lets at a time or of frying 23) pounds of potatoes. When there aro omelettes for

breakfast 7.800 eggs are used. The roflee machine makes 750 quarts of coffee daily. There are sixty cooks and one hundred kitchen boys employed. The experiment of giving the office of county superintendent of schools to a woman has resulted very satisfactorily In Madison county. Kentucky. lion. Curtis F. Burnam, in a recent speech in the constitutional convention, spoke of Mrs. Amanda T. Million as the most faithful and efficient school superintendent Madison county had ever had. Chief Gall, who succeeds Sitting Bull as head of the Sioux nat'on. led the Indians in the battle that brought defeat . and death to Custer. He is not only fond of fighting, but is capable of handling a body of Indians successfully when in the field, and has frequently exhibited qualities of generalship. He is, moreover, an Indian of some honesty. A Western young lady owns and works a farm of eighty acres. She does most of the work herself, and last year cleared over one thousand dollars besides paying all expenses of keep and clothing for herself and s young woman servant and the cost of new stock and machinery. She keeps one man, but has not yet burdened herself with the incumbrance of a husband. Sitting Bull's war-club is now in the possession of an Ohio editor. It is a viciouslooking weapon about two and a half feet long, and bears the signs of hard service. In the heavv or 'business" end of the club a short buffalo horn is firmly imbedded. The old chief gave the relio originally to Elroy Post, the artist, who had made two large paintings of the Indian's favorite pouiea. Each of the Justices of the federal Supreme Court is allotted a body-servant, who is paid out of the contingent fund of the court. These servants report promptly every morning at 9 at the residences of the justice, whom they attend constantly during the day. They shave the justices, do their errands and occasionally act as coachmen for them. Each justice is also furnished with a private secretary. A man who was in the car with Sitting Bull when the latter set out upon his first railway ride, which was from Bismarck to Washington, says the chief shivered and gazed about in wonder as the cars Hew over the rails. "The train is running very fast," said a gentleman present. "Utnph!" replied Sitting Bull, looking out of the window. "Fire wagon stay still. White man's medicine make earth move heap fast," One of Emma Abbott's earliest achievements in musio occurred during her girlhood in Peoria. She was at that timo a quaintlittle creature, small for her age, thin and pale. While visiting a young friend in a neighboring town the idea occurred to her to give a concert, a grand Abbott con- i cert, all by herself on her gnitar. The re- 1 salt of this concert was a net profit of $10, which was a Godsepd to ber povertystricken parents.

Snpprftlon of Votes Admitted. Boston Herald (Ind. I)em.) With the force bill finally disposed of, we have, in all probability, reached the end of what may be terme d purely sectional legislation, for it is obvious that, whatever may have been the general provisions of the proposed law, its intent was to regulate tho system of voting in certain sections of the country' where there is reason to believe the free right to vote is not now granted. We have never concealed from our readers thefactthatsnch a suppression of rights baa existed, and more thanonce haveexplained the grounds upon which such a suppression ' has been based, not in the form of defense, but in the way of explanation. Fruitless Treachery. Chicago JonrnaL It is very donbtful if the Republican Senators who sold out an honest ballot-box in order to get Democratic support for tho silver swindle will make anything by the transaction. They can pas a silver bill in the Senate by the same vote which was cast when they betrayed the cause of houet elections at tbeSouth. that is. if all the Democratic Senators shall keep their part of the bargain. This may be doubtful, and it would be but justice and fair retribution if the Senators who sold out the Republican -party should themselves be sold out before the trade is closed. m m m i The John Tylers of To-Day. Chicago tnter Ocean. So far as heard from the Republicans of the country have no word of approval for the eight Republican Senators who went over to the Democracy just when the cause of Republicanism most needed them, and the Democratic press is at no pains to hide the contempt which unfaithfulness always prompts. It is possible that these Senators will hnd some way to undo what they did. but otherwise they will take their place with the John Tylers, large and small, high aud low. of American politics. The Elections Hill Matt Be Passed. Chicago Inter Ocean! Whatever the immediate effect might be the genuine Republicans of the Senate owe it to their own self-respect and to the Republican party at large to exhaust every resource in trying to secure the actual jasnage of the elections bill, it will bo , iard enough, at best, to satisfy the people hat the party as such is not responsible for he sell-out. Once let that idea become ixed in the popular mind and 181)2 would be a repetition of 1S52. The situation is critical, admitting of no half-way measures. Overreached Themselves. Philadelphia North American. It is not necessary to express any surprise at the action of ultra silver men and the Democrats in the Senate by which the freecoinage question was forced upon that body. But it is one of tbe compensations in this tricky world that trick always overreaches itself. The silver men demand o much that, while they may defeat action on the elections bill, they will probably cause all legislation affecting silver to fall with it. Appropriate Quarters. Home Market Bulletin. There is a quarter in New York called "Hell's Kitchen and it is the heeadquarters of the Eleventh Congressional District Tariff-reform Club. Protection would be a useless to them as Jim Fisk's cemetery . fence. He said there was no need of it, for nobody wished to get in. and those who were in could not- get out. We have never doubted where the tariff-reformers would bring ud at last. Awful CompUcatlons In Prospect. Boston Herald The Behrine sea question is a poser, an, no mistake. Here comes the Canadian Minister of Customs and wants Secretary Blaine to euppose that an American cow seal gives birth to a pup by a Russian male seal in the open sea, and then to decide to what nationality the skin of that pup belongs. Truly the problems of diplomacy aro getting to be exceedingly profound. Cowardice in the Senate. Albany JonrbaL Cowardice has beaten the federal elections bill and the appointment by local conventions of members of the House of Representatives in the Southern States will continue. The fifteenth amendment to the Constitution, probably the greatest and noblest portion of that instrument, is trampled in the dust, and the slavery of tho black mau is to receive no check. Sounds Like Thirty Tears Ago. Boston Globe (Dcm.) The refrain of Congressman Breckinridae in his lecture at Tremont Temple Monday evening was: "Ix;t tbe South alone!" And it is to be noticed that in referring to the force hill hit objections to it were wholly industrial and commercial ones, the purely political aspect of it not seeming to bo worth noticing at all. Democrats lU-Jolee at Rain. ChlriffoPoal (Iem.) It is said the Dueber Watch-ease Company was "downed" by the Watch Trust. If this be true the Watch Trnst is to be congratulated. Dueber richly deserved to be ''downed." He and his company, in their days of greatness, were continually at war with the very fundamentals of American institutions. Applause from New 2'rienda. Kansas City Times (Dew.) Senator McConneli seems to be the right kind of a man. He was sworn in at noou yesterday and les tbau three hours later he assisted in scotching the force bill and bringiug up the tinancial bill which may bt made acceptable w the West.