Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUENAL, TUESDAY JANUARY 13, 1891.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1891. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St. P. 8. IIiatb. Correspond nt. Telephone' Call. Business Office 238 1 Editorial Room 142 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, DAILY BT MAIL. One year, without Sunday f 12.00 One year, with Sunday H.OO fix months, without Mi inlay 6-00 Fix month, with Hunday '.00 Three mouths, without Hnnday - 3.00 Three month , with bnnday One month, without Sunday ......... 100 One month, with Sunday 1-20 Delivered by carrier in city, S3 cents per week. WXEKLT. Per year - I1M Reduced Rates to Club. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents, or end subscription to the JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, I5D1A5AP0L13, IT. Persons sending the Journal throuajh the malls In the United States should put on an elKnt-page paper a 05E.CEXT postage stamp, on a twelve or sixteen, pajre paper a two-cett postsjre stamp. Foreign postage la usually double these rates. All communications intended for publication in Oi is paper m ust, in order to reeei re attention, be accompanied by the name ana addrtit of thewriter. THE IN DIANAPOLI9 JOURNAL " Can be found at the following places: PARIS-Amerlcan Exchange la Pari. 58 Boulevard des Capucmes NEW YOUK-GUey House and Windsor IIoteL pniLADELPHIA-A. pT Kemfcle, 373 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCTNNATI-J. B. Hawley A Co., 151 Vine street. LOUISVILLE a T. Deering; northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Houthern HoteL WASHINGTON. D. CU-Rigs House, and Ebbitt House ' The Democratic House yesterday insisted on having fifteen door-keepers. TVtj loon Iia TfAncA Vl O 1 TWf iui9 ia icsa luau t,uo aauiioi? lv years ago, bnt still nearly twice as many as are necessary. The tin-plate duty does not go into effect until next July, but the new law seems to have brought the price of spot tin down from 23.35 cents in September to 20.15 cents in January The action of the Democrats in the House yesterday, in fixing the number of door-keepers at fifteen, is equivalent to a vote of censure on the last House, which employed twenty-nine. Seven or eight would be about right. Quite a number of Democrats are getting into print with the opinion that if the Democratic victory makes Mr. Cleveland's renomination inevitable, a small-sized Republican majority would have been better for the Democracy. WnAT the farmer needs when he has abundant crops is more consumers, and one wage-earning consumer in this country is worth a half dozen in Europe, where he buys less and has a dozen competitors desiring to sell him bread and meat. While it is not clear who will be elected United States Senator in Illinois, it is very clear that ex-Governor Palmer will not be. Indications point to Judge Lindley, who was the Republican candidate for Congress last November in the Eighteenth district. Br this time the reading public has learned that battles whose coming off' is announced for a given day by special correspondents are a good deal like the ending of the world which Millerites are wont to foretell the performance does not take place as advertised. And now it is the Democratic State Treasurer of Arkansas that has gone wrong. He goes out of office to-morrow, and an examination of his accounts by two experts reveals a shortage of $ $4,000. White man's government in the South seems to have some drawbacks. Mr. Tim Griffin, custodian of tho State-house, is also the costodian at pijsent of a great many Democratic expectations. If he makes all the appointments he is importuned and expected to make, a large number of Democrats will rise up -and call him blessed. The usual reports of needy and suffering people in western Kansas appear in the papers, and will continue to do so three years in four so long as they at tempt to live by crop-raising in that region. The proposition to make it a cattle range is an excellent one until some general system of artificial irriga- , tion is established. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, not ing an increase in the taxable property in Missouri of 54 per cent., during the past decade, says that it "is due to protection and in spito of a scandal ous degree of Bourbon obstinacy and stupidity." It is so 'everywhere; all material progress is made in the face of Democratic discouragement. The Democrat in politics is the same as a "bear" in the market. TnosE Democratic organs which are so solicitous about the welfare of the Indians and are criticising the Republican administration for neglectingthem should read tho recent letter of Dr. McGillicuddy to Mr. Welsh, in which he declares that tho troubles are the "result of laxity in discipline and bad manage ment at Pine Ridge during the past four years." That is, the trouble began when Mr. Cleveland permitted the ap pointment of an inexperienced man as agent. ' Congressman FoxsTox'splan of solv ing the Indian problem by selling the reservations and buying farms for the red men in the East, scattering a few families here and there, has at least two points of merit. Tho Indians would thus have the advantage of good so ciety, and the excellent and cultured but somewhat sentimental people who love the aborigines so fondly at long range would have the opportunity for a close acquaintance with the objects of their regard. TnE Governor of California shows his appreciation of tho value of the world's fair to that Mate by advising the Legislature to appropriate $1,000,000 to de fray the expense of an exhibit. Cali fornia is making marvelous progress as a fruit-growing State. At the pres ent rate of progress it will supply tho country with dried and canned fruits, lemons, grapes, etc., of far better auality than are imported. Its people

regard the world's fair as the place in which to bring to the attention of tho

world the wonderful variety and superiority of its products. In other depart ments of production Indiana, consider ing its location, has no superior, but its superiority will not be recognized if our people fail to make it apparent in the great exhibition at our doors. Indeed, failure to make a grand exhibit will bo regarded as an admission that our people have nothing to show. The Legislature should bear these facts in mind. IMPORTANCE OF STATE AFFAIRS. In this, as in other States, it is very evident that intelligent people do not take the interest in the affairs of the State that their importance demands. Men who are well posted in regard to national affairs and take a deep interest In the federal government will be found to have very little accurate information in regard to State legislation and admin istration. Men will discuss the tariff question every time they have occasion who seem to have do interest whatever regarding the more important affairs of the State, for the management of which their money is required and paid. The proceedings of Congress are watched and its measures are criticised wherever a few men congregate, but how often are the proceedings of the Legislature carefully followed, or prominent meas ures befoie it known, much less discussed and investigated! The American citizen cannot give too much attention to public affairs. It is his duty to be a good politician, that is, to take an interest and to inform himself regarding public affairs. No means of intellectual devel opment within the reach of all is so well calculated to broaden and quicken the understanding as is the reading, inquiry and discussion which are necessary for a man to keep himself well posted in public affairs. But he will miss the better part if he stops with national affairs. Of all public affairs those of the town ship, city and county are most important to the people. Local government and the enforcement of the laws, the support of schools, the highways and other im portant matters .are vested in county,. township and city officials. In point of taxation the local government is more important than all others, since the only tax-gatherer that the average citizen sees is in the county. How many men of intelligence have any accurate informa tion regarding local affairs! Proceed ing to the State, how often do those men who talk tariff and finance discuss the home question of the methods of taxa tion! Men who get together to suggest reforms are quite sure to demand a change in the monetary system of the Nation, but they fail to touch the sub ject of local taxation, .which bears di rectly upon, them. They will demand economy in the federal administration, and will point out the ways to secure it, but it does not often occur to them that local taxation is unfair and local government expensive. Men will be indignant when it is proposed to increase the 6alary of an important fed eral officer, but they submit to a system by which some county officers secure larger compensation than the Chiefjustice of the Supreme Court, and twice as much as a United States Senator. The people of Indiana are greatly in need of a modern system of taxation which will relieve farms and homes of the burden they bear, and of the mort gage which the increasing State debt imposes, but how many intelligent men are considering it! More interest should be taken in legislative affairs, and citizens should make it a point to be fully informed regarding the proceedings of the legislative bodies. This seems spe cially necessary in this State, because in most essentials it has not kept up with other States. ' CIVILIZATION BY MARRIAGE. The Boston friends of Miss Elaine Goodale, who is engaged in educational work among the Sioux Indians, have received notice from that young woman that she is about to marry a member of the tribe. Miss Goodale was introduced to the public some years ago as a sort of infant phenomenon who had written verses, or, as her admirers .insisted, poetry, from her babyhood. At intervals since the publication of her juvenile effusions she has produced some indifferent verse, but of recent years her labors have been directed to the task of civilizing the savages. The man she is to marry is a full-blooded Sioux, twenty-eight years old, who grew up in savagery until he was fourteen and then entered a reservation school, but was afterwards sent East, where he became a graduate of Dartmouth College and later studied medicine. He is now known as Dr. Charles Eastman, and was advised to engage in practice in the East, but declared that his work must be among his people. This is a noble sentiment, and one that does him credit if he actually works. Inherited instinct and precedent make it unpleasantly probable, however, that he will relapse into barbarism sufficiently to let his wife become the family provider. He may not take part in ghost dances, but it requires more than one generation of culture to civilize the savage, and the future Mrs. Eastman may think herself especially fortunate if she is not made a drudge and a burden-bearer, and otherwise mistreated. The fact is well known that Indians educated at Carlisle and elsewhere in the East quickly and eagerly throw off many of the acquired ways of civilization after their return to their people, and there is, at least, room for a suspicion that Eastman was infiuenced by a longing for wild life, as well as by philanthropic motives, when he went back to his tribe. The experience of the young Washing ton woman who, a year or two ago, went to the Northwest as an Indian teacher, and married an "educated" son of a chief, is not yet forgotten by the public. In that case the husband promptly declined to work while he had a wife to take caro of him, and tho latest public appearance of the couple was in a Chicago dime museum, where they were driven by tho necessity of having bread and butter or its equivalent. It is hardly likely that Mrs. Eastman will ever enter herself as a museum exhibit, but she may come to look upon such place as an enticing and peaceful retreat compared with life con

ducted on primitive principles. As for tho race question involved, there are

fastidious people who regard such a union as being quite as revolting as if tne groom were a lull-blooded negro, notwithstanding the fact that certain of the proudest F. F. V.'s boast of their Indian blood and have nothing to say of even stronger African strains of inherit ance. If the down-East philanthropists love the Indians 60 much, however, that they are willing to marry tbeiri to civilize them, the rest of the world has no right to complain. A CONTEMPLATED OUTRAGE. The unseating of Senator Osborne, of Tippecanoe, which is proposed to bo done in accordance with the decree of the Democratic caucus,, will, if carried out, be a typical Democratic outrage. It was thought by some, in view of tho large Democratic majority in both houses and on joint ballot, and the absence of any necessity for outrages of this kind, that none would be practiced. The only motive for the proposed unseating of Senator Osborne is to keep in practice. The official returns, as published in the report of the Secretary of State, show that Mr. Osborne received 3,842 votes and McIIugh, his Democratic com petitor, 3,80G, giving Osborne a majority of SC. This was exclusive of disputed ballots, of which there were a number thrown out. Of the ballots which the election board unanimously agreed were beyond dispute Osborne had the above majority. In order to elect McIIugh it is necessary to give him every one of the disputed ballots claimed by him, including some which were only stamped in front of the name of Leroy Templeton, Democratic candidate for Congress, and which were plainly intended as votes for him alone. Although these ballots were not stamped in front of the rooster nor in front of McHugh's name, he claims them as for himself. Of course, he has no claim to them. He even goes so far as to claim one vote on the strength of a Democratic ticket which was torn off the official ballot entirely and voted in that way. But, giving him every disputed ballot that he claims, including a number that are plainly illegal, and giving Osborne the disputed ballots that were plainly intended to be cast for him, and the latter still has a majority. In other words, ho had a majority of the undisputed ballots and a majority on a fair division of the disputed ones. That he was fairly elected there is not a particle of doubt. At the same election Tippecanoe county cast 4,085 votes for Waugh, Republican, for Congress, against 3,653 for Templeton, Democrat, and also elected Wells, Republican, Representative, by 3,961 votes, against 3,669 for Wright, Democrat. Senator Osborne's majority was not as large as that of tho others, but it was as honest, and his unseating would be as great an outrage as would bo the unseating of Mr. Wells, the Republican Representative from tho same' county. PROPOSED TRANSFER OP THE PENSION BUREAU. The reasons for the transfer &f, the' Pension Bureau to the War Department are fully as strong as those for the transfer of the Indian Bureau. The records of the Pension Offico are in the War Department, the pensions are based on military service, and the whole system partakes of military organization. For this reason tho transfer of the business to the War Department would be in accordance with tho fitness of ihings. Moreover, it would probably result in better administration, and certainly in a large saving. It is always easy to find good executive officers in the army, and, with the Pension Bureau under the management and control of such, it would probably be brought to a higher state of efficiency than ever before, while the salaries of a considerable number of high-grade officials would be saved. It would be a positive gain for good government and a better administration of the office to have it in charge of officials entirely removed from tho influence of party politics: and with no other motive but the single one of bringing the business of the office up and maintaining tho highest degree of efficiency. But, numerous and weighty as are the reasons for the transfer, the suggestion will meet with strong opposition, and the change will not bo t accomplished without a determined effort. The Secretary of the Interior will object because it would reduce the importance and prestige of his department. The Commissioner of Pensions will object because it would deprive him of a lucrative office, and the deputy commissioners, chiefs of divisions and other high officials would object for the same reason! These, with their friends and their friends' friends, could bring strong influence to bear against the change. Finally, if any political capital was to be made for either party by preventing the change, it would be opposed in Con gress without regard to its merits. If tho public interests alone were con sulted, the chango would have been made before this. THE COUNCIL AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS. If the Council is in earnest in regard to lighting the streets of Indianapolis with electricity it has a strange way of showing its purpose. The recent treat ment of the question savors very much of the treatment of the street-railroad question, which the public has Iearnedf to its cost, meant at every stage nothing but waste of time and final surrender of the city's rights. After wasting many weeks, in a pretense of looking after the city's interests, letting the old lighting contract expire without making a new one, and finally advertising for bids for electric-lighting, there is now a prospect of further if not indefinite delay. If it is decided to reject, the bids received under the late advertisement the public is entitled to have a full statement of tho reasons therefor. Of course, any city or public corporation, advertising for supplies or eervice to be furnished by contract, reserves the right to reject any and all bids, but the ordinary course is to award the contract to tho lowest and best bidder, and if this is not dono very good reason must bo shown why. If bids are

submitted in good fath and the lowest is

in proper form and backed by proper as surances of ability to'carry out the contract, the city is morally bound to accept it unless there are overruling reasons of public interest to the contrary. In the present case three bids were submitted by competing companies, and one is considerably the lowest. Reducing it to caudle-power it offers by far tho cheapest and best illumination the city has ever had. The bid was made in good faith and the company making it is thoroughly responsible and capable of performing its contract. The people want electric lights, and under this bid the city has an opportunity to secure them on very favorable terms. Yet after all this waste of time and ostentatious display of regard for public interests, it is now proposed to readvertise forbid8. This looks more like "monkeying" than it does like business, and is very suggestive of ulterior motives. THE DEBTS OP CITIES. The census bulletin devoted in part to the debts of cities and large towns presents facts which should allay any apprehension lest municipalities are increasing their debts so rapidly as to in jure their credit or impose burdens upon future generations so grievous as to impair tho value of properties. The reports from 858 cities and large towns show that their aggregate bonded debt has increased only 8 per cent, during tho past ten year, while the aggregate of floating debt has fallen off" 17 per cent. There has been an increase in sinking funds of 28 per cent!, and the total available assets thereof is 50 per cent, greater than ten years ago. The increase of municipal assets, and the further fact that the cash on hand when the reports were collected was 81 per cent, greater than ten years ago, indicate larger expenditures rather than economy, but they are expenditures which are met by current taxation. The following comparisons present the essential features of municipal indebtedness collected in the two censuses: 1880. 1890. Gross debt $095,494,741. . . .$745,949,780 Resources 194,343,782 290,375,840 Net debt 501.150,959.... 455,373,910 The fact that the aggregate debt of the cities of the country has actually declined during the last decade about 9 per cent, is remarkable when their growth has been without precedent, and when that growth would demand expenditures of an unusual character. Taking the increased value of property in cities during the last decade in connection with the decreased debt, and the percentage of debt to the valuation of city property must be at least a third less now than ten years ago. The rate of interest paid on city debts was considerably less in 1890 than in 1880. The average rate in New England cities in 1880 was 4.75 per cent., and in 1890 4.15; in the Middle States the rate ten years ago was 5.58, and now it is 4.36, While in the West it has fallen from 5.78 in 1880 to 5.5 in 1890. In the South the rate has advanced from 4.91 in 1880 to 5.56 in 1890. In the Territories tho fall has been 50 per cent. The general average for the whole country in 1880 was 5.41, and 4.63 in 1890. These figures do not so much prove that municipal bonds are better property now than they were in 1880 as that the rates of Interest are generally lower. The foregoing statistics seem to prove that the cities which are the centers of trade and varied industries are not burdening themselves with debt as was predicted by many a few years ago they would. TO PROVIDE P0R THE FAITHFUL. Tho pay of a State Senator is $6 per day, and as there are fifty Senators their salaries amount to $300 a day. At the last session of the Legislature the Senate had sixty -seven employes, at a total cost to the State of more than $350 per day. The employes outnumbered the Senate by seventeen, and their expense to the State was $50 a day more than that of the Senate itself. A law passed in 1883 limits the employes of the Senate to twenty-nine in all, and this includes one Door-keeper and seven assistants. The last Senate therefore had more, than twice as many employes as were necessary, and thirty-eight more than the law allows. One Door-keeper and soven assistants are ample to perform all the duties required of them. The duties are light and easily performed. A compensation of $2.50 per day would be sufficient, and the places could all bVfilled at that rate. Yet the indications are that the present Senate will not reduce the pay of these employes, and, perhaps, may not reduce the number below that of two years ago. There are scores of hungry Democrats seeking places, and as a matter of charity ea many should be provided for as possible. Twenty-nine employes is the outside number needed by the Senate, and, at $2.50 each, this would make $72.50 per day. But if the Senate is determined to spend as much for employes as the List Senate did, $350 a day, it can, with that sum, pay 140 persons at the rate of $2.50 per day each. This would enable the Senate to have its full quota of twenty-nine employes, and would leave 111 persons free to go home, where they could continue to draw their pay and do rear-guard duty. Under this arrangement, if the Senate should be charged with extravagance, it could say, "Why, we expended exactly the same amount for employes that the Senate of 1889 did;" and, at the same time, it could give $2.50 a day to 140 Democrats during the entire 8e6sion. While the State is running on borrowed money the Legislature should try and make its money go as far as possible. When Congress passed the anti-trust law it was declared that it meant nothing and would never be used to prevent the organization of trusts. But it has been called in to break up onethe American Biscuit Company. When the trust was formed Klotz & Co., of New Orleans, became a member, but, not being satisfied, they undertook to withdraw and to run their own business in their own way. When they did this the trust asked tho United States Court to appoint a receiver for the Klotz bakery, the receiver to turn tho proceeds of the factory into the treasury of the trust, from which the firm would receive its

dividends on its stock in the trust. But the court said It could do nothing of tho sort, because tho terms of the alleged sale of Klotz & Co. were illegal, being in contravention of the anti-trust law.

In his message to the Legislature Governor Francis, of Missouri, calls attention to the fact that the taxable property of the State has increased 54 per cent, during the past decade. Missouri is essentially an agricultural State, aud the increased wealth must be due to tho improvement of and general advance in the values of farms. In the same connection the Democratic Governor deplores the condition of agri culture, and attributes it to the tariff legislation of the country during the past thirty years. Governor Francis should have found other facts than the increase of property in value more than one-third in ten years upon which to establish the general impoverishment of the farming industry in an agricultural State. A foreign dispatch says that on toe oc casion of tho beatification of Christopher Columbus the Pope will address a pastoral letter to the Catholic bishops of Italy and America. In the Roman Catholic Church the beatification of a deceased person is the act by which he is declared to be beatified, or one of the blessed, and therefore a proper subject of a certain degree of publio religious honor. It is usually the second step towards canonization, and cannot take place until at least fifty years after the death of the person, exceptin the case of martyrs. The process is an elaborate one, and the crowning act is not reached until after many years of strict investigation. The next step after beatification is canonization, and doubtless that will come in due time, though, perhaps, not for some years. Then we shall hate Saint Columbus, or more likely Saint Christopher. It is probably accidental, though certainly an interesting coincidence, that the beatification of the great discoverer is to come just as we are entering upon preparations for the World's Columbian Exposition. If the managers of that enterprise could only induce the Pope to put & little pull for the fair in his pastoral letter it wouh be a great stroke of business. ' America is getting old enough to have a history, and its ancient records and auto graph documents are becoming valuable. At an auction sale in Boston a few days ago $1,000 was paid for two letters. One of these was written by the Rev. John Eiiot, the famous Indian missionary and minister at Roxbury in 1G32, who wrote to the Rev. Mr. Shenard at Cbarlestown entertainingly regarding the Indians in Massachusetts. It was dated "Roxbury. the 22 of the 6, 1673." The other letter, for which $500 was paid, was addressed to John Winthrop, Governor of Massachusetts, dated "Plymouth, the 6tL of the 4th of the . month, 1G46." and signed by William Bradford, Edward Winslow and Thomas Prince, Governors of Plymouth Colony, and by John Browne, Commissioner of the United Colonies. One of the copies of the Constitution of the United States and the letter of Washington, as president of the convention, submitting the Constitution to Congress, and the resolution of Congress submitting it to the several States for ratification, thirteen of these copies having been sent to the original thirteen colonies, was sold for $100. TnE influence of the festive consumption bacillus is far reaching and develops in un-' expected places. At latest accounts he is casting a shadow, over the ancestral mansions of New England. New England, at everybody knows, produces more consumptives than any other region of the globe of equal size, and now physicians are advancing the opinion that many of these cases are due to'the family house rather than the family blood. It is believed that the germs of the disease taint the walls, the carpets, the furniture, and that the later' generations of occupants can hardly hope to escape the contagion nnless they leave home. An ancestral mansion is a very nice thing, viewed in some lights, but, unless it can be warranted free from the deadly bacilli, the "staringest," newest tinder-box of a bouse in the suburb of a growing Western city has decided advantages. Tns public can have no sympathy with those tyrannical Chicago employers who are closing their stone-yards rather than submit to fines of $400 imposed upon them by the Stone-cutters' Union for disobeying the rules of the union. What is to become of labor if the unions are not permitted to conduct the business of their employersf Witii an increase of 124 per cent, in her clearings last week and an enormous bank reserve Indianapolis does not seem to be feeling the financial stringency to any appreciable extent. Subscriber, West Newton: Tipton. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: Please give the origin of the expression "On a etlll hunt," if there is one, and its true meaning. Readeh. Among sportsmen a still hunt means one conducted with unusual silence and caution; hence its application in politics to a canvass conducted in a quiet and secret manner. , To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal? What is the number and per cent, of Illiteracy among the farmers of this State, as compared with that amoug mechanical Illiterate. Oxford, Ind. , The statistics do not show the occupation of illiterate persons. To the Editor ot the Indlaii&noll Journal: What is a quadricentenniali kA Header. Bahgf.rsville, Ind., Jan. 12. Occurring once in four hundred years. BCBBLES IX. THJB AIR. Spokeu bj the Card. "Honestly, now, have you never played poker before!" "No; this is my debut-ante." Utterly. Prostrated. Watts Hullo, Potts, why are you eating down town! Wife gone awayt Potts No. Her dog is dead. Feerless in Iler .Way. "But this girl Egbert is encaged to she rather giddy? She seemed to me thoughtless creature. "Thoughtless!' answered Egbert's ; Isn't rather mother. "She is absolutely thinkless. A Sacred Concert. Just as the prehistoric maiden in short skirts was executing the moit difficult steps of a "sand jig" a policeman appeared at the door. "Call this a eacred concertr he asked. "Don't you fret," replied the unabashed doorkeeper. "We are doing this thing all right. We take up a collection at the end of the second act Seel' A Little Learning. "They tell me, said the tourist, "that there areruany college men to be found among the cowboys and miners here." "Yes," answered One-wing Jllacksour, "I am a graduate myself. That's how I lost my ear. You see, at college I learned that a straight flush would beat four aces. Weill" "Out here 'pears like it doesn't"

ABOUT PEOPLE AND TU1NGS. JotinG. WniTTinit, birthday gifts included a barrel of ittcb-pine kindlings from the Wbittier colored school at Tuscaloosa, Ala. Gkneual Uutler rises to the occasion and says that he never yet knew a perfectly hre-proof theater that wouldn't burn down quicker than & wooden shanty. Jacob Kaiin, a Cleveland shoemaker, claims thap he has invented and will have in operation in sixty days a compressed-air motor that will propel a street-car twenty miles an hour at a cost of 3 cents. New York doctor to dyspeptic: "If you are so very careful what you eat, and yet you suffer severely, take my advice and stop being so ail-fired carefuL Sail in and eat good, sturdy food, and stop thinking about your stomach' Elizabeth Stoddard, writing in the Independent of Eugene Field, says: "He told me some time ago that he had never oflered anything of his to an editor or miblisher: it

might be foolish, he said, but such was his feeling; he waited to be asked." Carhir Lane Chapman Catt said in her recent speech at the suffrage convention in Des Moines: "Hut it isn't so easy to get a husband. There are not enongh men to go around at least decent ones. There are a great many thousand-dollar women now. They can't be expected to marry 10-cent men." Thomas A. Edison is said to regard his deafness as a blessing in disguise. It enables him to think and plan in perfect quiet and he can have his children about him at all times without being disturbed by their noisy prattle. He alfo m if sea the comments passed on his appearance whereever he goes. It is said of David Jacks, the Monterey county (Cab) millionaire, that he can ride twenty miles in a straight line on his own land. He is a Scotchman, and in 1813 stowed himself away in a barrel on a vessel bound for California. Now he has a fortune of $7,000,000. He is a devout Presbyterian churchman. The King of Spain is an infant terrible. He has managed to kill his governess. Tho unfortunate lady was watching the baby monarch at play, when suddenly he leaped into her lap and upset her chair, canning her to fall to the lioor with great violence. She sustained such severe internal injury that she died from the effects. "Black Beauty" has reached a circulation of 216,000 copies, and the editor of Our Dumb Animals is having this story of a horse translated into Italian, French, German, Sp&nish and Volapuk so "T.lark Beauty' may speufc to "every kindred, every tongue.'' Selling at 6 cents and 13 cents a copy the book has 60 far cost the Humane Society more than it has brought in. Tnis instance of the late General Devens's bravery is cited: At the crossing of the Rappahannock, in the battle of Fredericksburg, his brigade led the way over the lower bridges, and when the retreat was ordered he asked that he and his tiieu might be the last to return. General Franklin, to whom the request was pre. ferred, turned and said to Gen. W. b Smith, "Well. Baldy, there doepn't appear to be anybody else asking for that honor, eo we'll let Deveus wait till the last if he wants to." It is said in Washington that Elaine Goodale, the poet and philanthropist superintendent of the 6ionx schools, is engaged to marry Dr. Charles A. Eastman, a full-blooded Sioux, who gained a high, reputation as a scholar and man at Dartmouth College, and subsequently took his degree in the medical department of Boston University. Ohoiyesa for he was known by his native name amoog his colleue-fel-lows is a very remarkable young man. He had no purpose, excrpt to dedicate himself to the welfare of his race, and bo went straightway to live among them. He has been very efficient in the present xroubh s, though, owing to the unfortunate precipitation of the hostilities, he has done legs than he hoped. At present he is at Pine Ridge agency in charge of the wounded Indians. For many years after the Custermassacre, whenever the Seventh Cavalry was paraded, or there was any mounted formation, there was presented the pathetic sight of an old cavalry charger, saddled and equipped, and led by a trooper one ach side, the empty saddle telling the story of tho old horse's faithfulness. He was the solo survivor found on the field of the Cnster massacre. He belonged to an nfticer in the regiment, and watched by his master's body, although vounded in a dozen places, for days and nights, and when tho rescnert came there he stood, gannt, starving, wounded, but faithful to the dead man. The late General Sturgis, who was then colonel of the regiment, and who lost & splendid yonng son in the light, issued uu order that the horse should be cared for to the end of his days, as attached to the regiment, and thatfatall mounted formations he should be in line. He lived to a good old age. The Treachery in the Senate. Richmond Palladium. A party can stand defeat, it can survive disaster, it may triumph over great odds, bnt no party can keep power or win it wher it displays cowardice in the discharge of a plain, clear, unmistakable and admitted duty. Eight Republican Senators prevented the discharge of such a duty. Their vote will raise the sober question in million? of earnest Republicans, "Of what use is a party which cannot protect the conatitu tinual rights of it own members when it is in full coutrol of the national legislation!" Slaughtered by Its Friends. Helena (Mont ) Journal's Special. The free-coinage proposition is dead, and with it the financial bill. It was choked to death by its friends in the Senate yesterday. No greater violence could hav been done to the free coinage of silver than was perpetrated by the silver-pool Senators yesterday when they joined the Democrats for the purpose of side-tracking tho elections bilL Republicans iu the Houhc who would have voted for free coinage in any shape declare now they will not supportit m i. Clereland and Free Silrer Coinage. Atlanta Constitution (Deio.) It is not only a party question but it if one of the tests of Democracy. Editot Godkiu understands this perfectly well, and it is for this reason that he meets Senator Vest's intimation that Mr. Cleveland has undergone a change of heart with th celebrated anti-silver letter "to Hon. A. J, Warner and others." Editor Godkin is a mugwump, and a mugwump must have a victim, even if he has to hot-pot bis dearest friend. Too Deep for Democracy. Chicago Inter Ocean. Mr. Cleveland's "extemporaneous" speech (which was printed and mailed to the paperr a day in advance of its delivery) to the Young Men'.! Democratic Association ol Philadelphia contained nutritive nuggets in spite of the fact that it was as steamy and soggy as an underdone plum pudding in superabundance of seaquipedal alien verbiage. Democracy will experience heart pangs trying to translate the double-barreled cryptogram. - Our Good Indian. Nebraska Journal. Chief Salt Ice, of the Coeur d'Alene agency, was as frigid as his name when a Sioux emmissary entered his camp and asked his tribe to join the hostiles. He administered a whipping to the embassador and marched him ont of camn and dismissed him with a vigorous kick. Ihe Coeur d'Alenes are suiliciently civilized tc prefer rations to bullets. i 1 Money Juuough, New York World. There is no one who has goods or services that are in demand who nnds it difficult to procure money. Nor do enterprises with . hope of profit in them go begging for capital. The truth is that there is mony enough to transact all the business of tho conntrv. and there will be money enough for that if business should grow tenfold, and that with or without the interference of Congress. Did Not Head the JournaL . Yon nut, tow ii (O.) Telegram. White wings of peace do not hover over the Republicans of Indiana apparently. The Indianapolis Journal condenses Gov. Hovey's message to tho Legislature into less than a column, and makes no editorial luuntiou of it at ulL