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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 1891.

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At the present time a thousand men are needed, but the average citizen does not take to the naval service with great enthusiasm, South Carolina has not a defaulting State Treasurer at last accounts, but it has a defaulting Adjutant-general. He did not make a wholesale default, but took half the funds intrusted to him. He belongs to several generations of first families. TnE National Peace Society seems to have made no effort to settle the Demp-sey-Fitzsimnions affair by arbitration, but it is possible that the eminent Mr. Dempsey and his many friends who "put up" on him wish the fight had been beaded off In this way. One rather curious feature about the various consumption cures that have come to light since the Koch discovery is the secrecy that their inventors had Tireviouslv envelcned them with. It seems a little queer that no hint of these important remedies had crept out. TnE Illinois legislative reports contain numerous matter-of-fact allusions to "steering committees," who seem to bo running things in both branches. Inasmuch as the Legislature is composed largely of farmers, it is sincerely to bo hoped that these are not bunco-steering committees. It is announced that the Dominion Ministry will ask the British government to confer upon the Dominion full control of its possessions in North America, which means authority to make reciprocal treaties. This would amount to an abdication by Great Britain of its control over its colonies, which will probably not be relinquished. If the Mount Carmel air-ship is completed, why do its owners not fly it to nu: i " J : t . iujcau iusicau ui fixity lug ib uu u Height train, as they propose to dot If it were a water-sailing vessel this mode of transportation over the nrairies might do, but there is certainly a sufficiently free and broad sweep of air between tho two Illinois cities to carry anthing that flies. It is not difficult to figure out tho effect of a big inflation of the currency upon tho men who work for salaries and wages. Prices go booming upward for everything they buy, but the price of labor is the last thing to go up and the first thing to come down when the reaction comes. Currency disturbance always cuts both ways upon those who can least afford it. It is not bo very 'long since some excellent and highly moral persons of this city opposed the acceptance for charitable uses of the funds raised by an amateur theatrical entertainment, but thus far none of the churches to which Emma Abbott left bequests has declined to receive the gift. Toleration, which is another name for common eense, leads in such matters nowadays. It is a poor rule that doesn't work with two kinds of cattle as well as with one. If American cattlo must bo subjected to rigid inspection beforo entering other countries, foreign cattle should bo examined as carefully beforo being admitted to the United States, not by way of retaliation, but because the inspection is a proper sanitary precaution in both cases. The new regulation is a good one. The Michigan Salt Association has decided to dissolve its organization on April 1,1801. This is the awful salt trust that has .been so much talked about in late years. It was organized In May, 1S70, and soon after established agencies at all of the leading centers of distribution in the West. It fixed the prices of ealt, and in effecting a unity of action ii the salt interest it has worked immense benefit to the individual manufacturer, as well as to the salt interest generally. Tho reason assigned for its going out of existence is' that owing to tho competition in the salt manufacturing business throughout the country, and the extent cf production, tho association, in order to market the product, has been forced to sell largo quantities in certain territory at less than tho actual cost of tho manufactured product, depending urjcwi

the better markets to make up the price, j The tariff had nothing to do with its organization or with its dissolution, though it is likely tho latter will be followed by a temporary decline in the price of salt SCAB DAL 8 IS PUBLIC IN8TITUTI058. Scandals in connection with the management of State institutions seem to be almost inseparable from partisan control. If not a natural product of such control, they are, at least, very hard to prevent under that system. The tendency of unchecked power is towards abuses.' With a board of managers all representing one political party, and nore anxious to serve the party than the public, abuses aro sure to creep in, and, once established, with no one to check or expose theni, they grow worse and worse. All the scandals in connection with the public institutions ot this State have grown out of partisan boards, either directly through .their efforts to serve the party at tho expense of the public, or indirectly through the inefficiency or dishonesty of persons appointed or employed for political reasons. It was so with the long-continued abuses in tho Central Hospital for the Insane, so with the big stealings in the southern prison, so with the tragedy in tho Richmond asylum, and so with the present charges against the management of the northern prison. It is worthy of remark that the only public institution in the State that has been absolutely free from scandal of any kind, and which, under all administrations, has been cited as a model of good management, is the Female Prison and Reformatory for Girls, which has always been controlled by a board of women managers of different political views. Whether the excellent management of this institution is due to the sex of the managers, or to the fact that it has always been non-partisan, the fact is significant that of all the State institutions, It alone has been absolutely free from scandal. The warden of the southern prison speculated in contracts and robbed the State of thousands upon thousands of dollars; the warden of the northern prison has been for years enjoying the proceeds of lucrative slop contracts, while tho reports of the female prison show that every year the managers have accounted to the State to the last penny for the proceeds of the sales of waste paper, old iron, and even empty barrels. The slops of the institution are fed to hogs which furnish food for the inmates, not a bucket of slops leaving the premises. In view of the contrast afforded by the management of this institution with that of others, the Legislature certainly ought to place all the others under non-partisan control, and if that does not put an end to scandals they should all be placed under the control of women. If scandals cannot be eradicated from male management of public institutions, men themselves should be eradicated from such management. For tho scandals must cease.

PBEE 8ILVEB COINAGE AHD WAGES. The advocates of free coinage never tiro of telling us that its adoption will be of great advantage to the wageearner and the farmer, but they do not undertake to show the manner by which it will be brought about. It is an assumption, and we are asked to accept it as truth without demonstration. They assert that free silver coinage will give the country more money, and that more money will mean tetter prices. This assumption is false. The day that the coinage of silver is put on the same basis as the coinage of gold this country will bo put upon a silver basis and gold will begin to disappear and command a premium, because a dollar the intrinsic valne of which is 100 cents in the general market of the world will not remain in circulation with a dollar whose intrinsic value is 85 or 90 cents. It is an attempt to make a less value pass for a greater. It is the same as would be an attempt to declare by law that the value of a bushel of corn and a bushel of wheat are tho same in the United States, when the value of wheat in the commercial world is nearly double that of corn. Would people having wheat in the United States go on swapping it for corn or goods measured by corn values, or would they take it to markets where one bushel of wheat would buy as much as a bushel and a half of corn! Answer is unnecessary. There are several nations which have put silver and gold money on terms of equality, but gold has left them, and they are on a silver basis and at a disadvantage. "But what matter-if gold does go out so long as its place can bo taken by more silver!" asks the freecoinage advocate. Tho answer is that it will take a long time to put silver in the place of the $073,000,000 of gold estimated to be in the United States. Now, in all candor, let us consider what the wage-earner will gain by free coinage of silver and a silver basis. All raw materials and goods that we purchase abroad will bo purchased on the gold basis, because gold is the money of international commerce, and is the measure of values. Take sugar, the price is made in gold on the supply. When an American purchaser orders a cargo,' he will bo compelled to buy gold exchange with silver. He will pay a premium for his gold 2, 5 or 10 per cent. His cargo of sugar, worth $25,000 in gold, will cost him $27,500, say, in silver. The wage-earner, who will be paid in silver, will pay the silver price for his sugar. The price of cotton is made in Liverpool in gold, because England and other countries take a large part of the crop. The American price will be the Liverpool price plus the difference that must bo paid in silver to get gold exchange, and cotton goods here, will be higher by the difference between gold and silver money. In short, the situation will be the same that prevailed before' specie resumption, when the premium on gold was from 10- to CO per cent the same kinds of goods will bo that per cent, higher because the silver dollar will bo worth less than the gold one, and gold rules prices as the money of commerce. But it will be said that wages will advanco with a general ad

vance in the price of tho necessaries of life. Experience proves that labor and service of all kinds are the last commodities to advance, for the reason that tho general supply is, in all countries, more or less in excess of the demand. The purchasing power of the silver dollar may be only 5 per cent less than that of the gold, but that 5 per cent, is a practical reduction of wages which it will be difficult for any class of wage and salary people to make up by an advance of compensation. It is the same with the farmer. The prices of his great staples, if produced in excess of home consumption, will be made in London, and based upon supply and demand in gold values. The exporter of wheat will pay only the London price in gold for his cargo. If the farmer gets the silver price for his crop ho might gain a few dollars on a hundred bushels of wheat, but he would lose more when he came to purchase the necessaries of life upon the silver basis. The only people who would be benefited by free silver coinage would be tho present owners of the mass of silver bullion in the world, and the owners of silver mines, not only in this country, but elsewhere. They would realize large proGts and great fortunes.

AGRICULTURAL ENTI0EMEKT3. About this time of year the seed cata'ogues and farm annuals begin to present themselves and excite lovely visions of rural life in the mind of the city resident. Given an annual 'lllus-' trated by an artist who understands his business, and tho owner of even a feeblo imagination is transported at once into the most enticing of gardens. The nineteenth century person is not sentimental, or, at least, makes sentiment subordinate to the practical, and it is not a floral vision that fills his delighted eyes. Instead, and inspired by the seductive pictures of the catalogue, he sees rows of pea-vines weighted with a load of well-filled .pods that would open the eyes of the professional gardener with amazement. He sees large and rotund cabbages; succulent sweet corn tempts him; asparagus peeps above ground white and tender; tomatoes glow in red magnificence; cucumbers, beans and other vegetables are even more abundant than the artist promises. Strawberries, red and luscious, wait to be picked, and other fruits add their rival attractions. All these products of the garden ripen and are ' ready to be plucked at ono and the same time by the one who plants and tills by his fireside and why not! He brings those toothsome vegetables and that juicy fruit through all their stages of growth without fear of frost, without a struggle with pestilential weeds, without a fight with devouring insects, without backaching toil and ceaseless anxiety and watchfulness. Why, under such circumstances, should not all the crops mature at one time, if so desired? If the Farmers' Alliance wants to create a feeling in its favor in the mid-winter season at least all it has to do is to circulate the pictures of glorified vegetables and "garden sass," and arouse in every recipient a longing to till the soil and produce the like. This longing is apt to weaken suddenly when tho first warm4 and enervating days come, and it dies a natural death in tho heat of summer when the real farmer is literally earning his bread by the sweat of his brow. About that time the theoretical farmer - is content to procure his vegetables from the city market whose crops never fail, and where the strain is upon the pocket instead of the back. Tho charm of the catalogues is evanescent and productive of few genuine attempts at agriculture, but the books inspire tho fancy as more pretentious efforts in art and literature often fail to do. WOMEN AND THE WORLD'S FAIR. Mrs. Charlotte Smith, of Washington, D. C, who edits a paper called the Working Woman, enters a vigorous and vociferous protest against the action of the world's fair commissioners in failing to appoint any representatives of the five million "wage-women" on the board of "lady managers," or any woman who has been identified in any way with women's industries, or any woman who has had experience in organization, or has made a practical study of feminine interests. Among those who should have been chosen she mentions several who are officially and prominently connected with the Knights of Labor organization, the Farmers' Alliance, the National Grange, a number of organizations of exclusively femalo . membership; Miss Grace Dodge, president of the. Working Girls' Clubs; Helen Campboll, an authority on questions concerning women's industries, and others. Charlotte makes much sport over the "lady board," and, now that the ladies are provided for, proposes to see to it that the women have a chance, especially as it was mainly through the efforts of working women that the amendment to the world's fair bill permitting the appointment of a female board was passed. Charlotte, who is something of a crank, is not likely to succeed in her plan to induce the women workers of the country to have nothing to do with the fair unless they can be represented in the management, but she is more than half right, nevertheless. As the Journal has pointed . out, the "lady board," as it is constituted, is as unwieldy and useless as a fifth wheel to a coach. Women should have a voice in the management, but they should have been placed on the regular board in full equality with the male commissioners, and while they need not necessarily be members of any organizations men tioned which are largely political in purpose, they should be identified in some way with the especial classes they are assumed to represent. The New York Sun finds fault with the present "lady managers," not that they aro primarily the wives of well-known men, but that "they are, with one exception, all wives." It adds that, "with all this unparalleled opportunity for self-assertion, woman will have no representative of herself purely, no ono identified with tho last twenty years' movement for her cmanci pation, but a solid body of worthy mar ried women appointed because of their husbands. In other words, woman will

have no true representative at all." It

is not apparent that there is any way of improving the situation at this stage. and the dissatisfied ones can only comfort themselves with the reflection that the next world's fair, a century later. matters will be very different In the meantime the several States can do something to remedy the mistake by ap pointing properly representative women their local commissions. Indiana has opportunity to distinguish itself by setting an example to the rest. HISTORIAN BANCROFT. George Bancroft, whose death is an nounced, has been a prominent figure in the affairs of this country for half a century, and for nearly that period he has been recognized by educated people in Europo as ono of the foremost of Americans. He is popularly remembered for "his history of the United States, which, for candor, accuracy and literary merit can never have a superior; but, while that work was sufficient to give him a prominent place in tho ranks of thoso who deserve well of itheir countrymen, Mr. Bancroft's service in official- position was so wide and so rich in results that he will always be recognized as a statesman of a high order. The naval school at Annapolis is a testimony to his wis dom; possession was taken of California during the Mexican war by his order as Secretary of the Navy; the establish-. ment of the American doctrine of the right of expatriation and its acknowledgment by the German government was secured through his influence while minister, which led Great Britain to abandon tho theory of perpetual al legiance. Before the rebellion he belonged to the Democratic party and held a high place in the regard of its leaders. WThen tho war broke out Mr. Bancroft threw his personality and influence upon the Union side. To Mr. Lincoln he gave his experience and his counsel, influencing not only the conservative element in the country, but the learned in Eu rope, xso man did more in his spnere to promote the Union cause. Mr. Ban croft was singularly fortunate in com manding the confidence and regard of the most prominent men in public life . of both parties. His long life has been ; one of great activity, even until he had 4 reached the age of four score years. His life and service entitle him to be Tecognized as an ideal American citizen. NECESSITY OF BETTER ROADS. No Governor of Indiana has ever made as strong recommendations in favor of an improved road system as Governor Hovey has done. In both of the messages he has sent to tho Legislature he gave the subject a conspicuous place, and gave strong reasons why our road system should be reorganized. In his last message ho said: For the year ending Oct 81, 1800, a road tax of $1,022,1 1L78 was collected and used in the respective comities of the State. Besides this large amount, there were 864,317 persons who were liable to work on the roads from two to four days in each year. Estimating that each performed three days' labor, worth $1.25 per day, and The value of their labor would amount to $l,3f,fi,l 58.00 Cash collected on assessment.... 1,022,111.78 TotaL $2,388,269.78 This, on an average, would allow an expenditure of money. . and, labor of nearly $26,000 in each county in the State. Can any of you, gentlemen, assure me that onehalf of that sum has been fairly expended in your counties on roads! It is a notorious fact that, under our present system, a large part of the road tax is wasted and much of the work done on roads is thrown away. Millions upon millions of dollars and a vast amount of labor have been put into the roads of Indiana, and yet there is not a county in the Stato that has a system of good roads. The money has been spent and the work done in a bap-hazard way, without plan; intelligence, rule or system, and the result is that both have been largely wasted. What is needed is a law that will provide for the intelligent use of money ' and labor in road-making, and for laying the foundation of a uniform system of good roads for the entire State. Such a system would be of inestimable value to the people, and would save its cost every year. At present in most of the counties of tho State a large portion of the country population are mud-locked two or three months in the year, the roads being so bad in the spring and fall that they can hardly get to the county towns. This injures trade, depresses markets, and is a severe tax on tho prosperity and comfort of the peo ple. A general system of good roads would add largely to farm values, enable farmers to take advantage of good markets, equalize and improve the trade of county towns, and be a great saving to farmers in the way of transportation. It is time for the State to take hold of this matter in a vigorous way. We need a liberal, progressive road law, something fatirely different from the narrow and primitive legislation of past years. It is timo for Indiana to bo getting out of the mud. j COMPULSORY VOTING. i Of late there has been considerable private and official discussion of . the methods which may be employed to induce or compel, people to vote. There is a class of people who would vote several times at every election if they could safely do it, but they are not the wen whose voting would lead to good government. On the other hand there are thousands of voters who are admitted to be the best kind of citizens, and who are assumed to have an interest in public affairs, who do not vote at all, or very rarely. General Butler once recommended that every man who voted should have his poll-tax remitted. Governor Campbell, of Ohio, has suggested that every voter who does not attend political primaries shall be disfranchised. G overnor Hill says nothing of the primaries, but he . recommends that the voter who does not vote shall be fined. A bill was introduced in the last Legislature of New York, but not passed, which made it a misdemeanor, punishable with fine and imprisonment, for citizens legally qualified who neglect to vote. This idea does away with tho theory that suttjage is a privilege and a right and makes it a trust and a duty. There is undoubtedly a largo number of voters in the country

who seem to regard voting as so much of a hardship that they cannot be counted on to vote oftener than in presidential years, and who ignore, as beneath their notice, the most important of all electionsthe city and township. This class of voters is , composed largely of men of intelligence. Some of them excuse themselves on the ground that none of the candidates are acceptable, and that parties divide upon questions of minor importance, therefore, they express disgust with political matters and simply criticise and bemoan the degeneracy of the times. This is neither sensible nor patriotic. If tho non-voting element cannot vote for candidates nominated by either of the old parties, they can nominate for themselves. Thus they would stand to be counted. But, novel as is this suggestion.it is ono of. the topics which is entitled to fair consideration. If tho man who neglects to vote should be fined $5 or $10 for failure to do so, and the penalty should be strictly1 enforced, 'the public might know the

money value of such scruples. But, whatever may be said of the proposition, it would be a good thing to inculcate the idea that suffrage is a duty to be faithfully discharged rather than a privilege to be exercised when those upon whom it is conferred are in the mood for it. THE GROWTH OF POPULATION. The discussion of the eleventh census has brought to light some interesting revelations regarding estimates which have been made of tho population of the United States by decades. As long ago as 1815 an American writer named Elkanah Watson, basing his calculations upon the census of 1790, 1800 and 1810, made estimates for 1820, 1830, 1810, 1850 and 1860 that were remarkably accurate, but from that time on they were increasingly too high. For 1850 he estimated the population to be 23,185,368, the actual figures being 23,191,876. When, however, he reached 1890, his figures were fifteen millions too high. In 1854 Mr. J. D. B. DeBow, who was Superintendent of the Census of 1850, made an estimate for each decade to the end of the century. He was very near the figures in 1860 and 1870, but thereafter he erred, as did Mr. Watson, making the population in 1890 over sixteen millions too large. Their error was in the ratio of Increase, which they evidently made the same, decade after decade, when experience has proved that the older and more populous a country becomes, the' ratio or percentage of the increase of population declines. Malthus, who so distressed himself about the future of the human raco because he had, as ho thought, discovered that population would increase by geometrical progression; while subsistence could not be multiplied beyond arithmetical progression, did not discover this very important fact In a limited community, occupying a new country, population may increase for a time in something like geometrical ratio, but when it comes to whole countries, reasonably populated and where the aggregate reaches millions, the ratio of Increase will fall off. It was because he recognized this general law that General Walker, who was Superintendent of the Census in 1870 and 1880, was able, in 1873, to make an estimate of the population of tho United States in 1890. which was very near the total reported by Superintendent Porter, and for 1900, which is below that of all others who have made estimates namely, about 75,000,000. The increase . of population in this country during tho last decade was 24.86 per cent, of which 10.46 per cent, was by immigration and 14.40 naturally. There is reason to believe, and certainly cause to hope, that the volume of immigration, considering its character, will fall off' during the comingdecade, so that a smaller ratio of increase of population may be expected in 1900 than during the past decade. At any rate, those who have been troubling themselves lest there shall not be standing room on this continent a quarter of a century hence may find relief in the discovery of the law of decreasing percentage of the growth of population as the country fills up, and in the general effoit of the three leading nations of Europe to turn the tide of their immigration into Africa. Probably the most independent man on the Western Hemisphere, if not on the entire earth, is Mr. Richard Baisett, of Traverse bay, Lake Michigan. Although he lives on a bit of land hecan only belocated by the water that surrounds him, for his residence is on an island that has no name nor geographical location on any map. Of this island, comprising two acres of good land and located in the waters of Traverse bay, a mile or so from the Michigan shore, he is sole proprietor and undisputed sovereign. When he applied . to the government to purchase it the authorities informed him that there was no such land in the United States, and they could not sell it to him. Of course be knew better, because ho was living on the island, cultivating it and raising good crops of garden stuff and fruit Mr. Bassett has lived on his island twelve years, and during that time has not paid a cent of taxes to anybody, and never voted, although be has offered his ballot in the nearest voting place and been refused. As far as the law is concerned he has no legal residence, and does not exist The county authorities have rexnsed to recognize him in anything, claiming that he was not a resident of the United States. People who live on the main land, and in the bustling city of Muskegon, call him the Hermit of Traverse bay, but what does he care for that! Line Robinson Crusoe, he is monarch of all he surveys; he is ordof the fowl and the brute; from the center all round to the sea, viz., the lake, his right there is none to dispute. If he is a man without a country, he is also a man without any of the cares or burdens of citizenshipno taxes to pay, no assessments for street improvements, no bother about politics, no fear of policemen, constables or sheriff, no necessity for patronizing street railroads, no infliction from locomotive whistles, no clauging of church bells, no duit, no serving on juries in short, none of the annoyances of living under a civilized government and among civilized people. Mr. Bassett is monarch of the smallest kingdom in the world, and no potentate on earth is as independent. Now comes Dr. 8amuel S. Dixon, of Philadelphia, and claims priority in the discovery of Professor Koch's lymph and cites an

article published by him in the Medical News in December, 1889, stating that he had succeeded in isolating the bacilli of tuberculosis and that on inoculating guinea pigs with the lymph it gave the animals immunity from attacks of true tuberculosis when brought in contact with it At the same time he said that the lymph might be applied to mankind with beneiicial effects. The weak point in this claim, like many others, is that Dr. Dixon did not utilize his alleged discovery. If he thought it could be used for the benefit of mankind he should have carried his experiments to the extent of proving it as Dr. Koch has done. . ' Pursuant to the provisions of law by which the State officers go out of office at different times, Hon. Charles F. Griffin has just retired from the office of Secretary of State. Mr. Griffin came hero froxn.a distant part of the State, and his election as Secretary of State was his first appearance in State politics. He goes out of office much better known than he was when-he came in. Not only has he filled the position ably and satisfactorily, but he has established a reputation as a conscientious publio officer and a clear-headed business man. When he first took the office the Democrats thought, on account of his youthful appearance and mild manners, that he would be easily ridden over and broken down, but they soon discovered their mistake. No Secretary of State has ever made a better record than Mr. Griffin has done.

The views of Hon. Channoey M. Depew on public questions are read with interest both for.what they express and the way he expresses them. Here is what he says about the political effect of free silver coinage: The Republican party was swept under in the November elections by a resistless tidU wave of misrepresentation as to the probable effects of the tariff legislation in the future and an overwhelming belief that these eliects would surely be realized. In the meantime the McKlnley bill is slowly but 6urely working out the beneficial results to the country which its advocates were certain would follow the putting In practice by Its friends of the principles of the protection of American Industry. But the silver craze has transferred confusion from the Republican to the Democratic? party. The Democrats have been cairied oiT their feet, and by their vote In the Senate are pledged to unlimited expansion and fiat money, or the "rag baby" with a metallic rattle. An aged philosopher, discoursing of life) in a recent novel, has this to say of matrimony: "One way er another, women air dissatisfy in' critters; either you can't make out to get the one yon want er you can't make out to want the me you git I ben married three several times myself, an' I never struck it exact" The names of people who have failed to "strike it exact" would probably fill several ponderous volumes, but the anxiety they display to "strike" again at the first opportunity does not show them to - be convinced by experience that marriage is a failure. A book review in a so-called literary weekly opens thus: The novels of the season are all so pretty, with delicate or brightly-tinted covers, and with such dainty ornamentation. Various shades ot gray predominate blue gray or clear gray and there are two gray novels of which I write first. , That this was written by a woman it does not need the feminine signature appended to prove. Who jays women cannot do the fine touches in literature? Franklin, which has succeeded n passing a cow ordinance, is entitled to the congratulations of Indianapolis, which has not been so long emancipated from the tyranny of the cow that it has ceased to rejoice over its freedom. The Franklin peoplo are herewith assured that a cow ordinance is a great civilizer. The twenty-third annual convention of the National American Woman Soli rage Association will be held in Washington, D. C, in Albaugh's Opera-house, Feb. 26 to March 1, 189L The National Council of Women will meet in the same place the three preceding days. This is strange news that comes from Kansas. A law for the punishment of bribery has been proposed in the Legislature and has met with violent opposition in that famous aggregation of Alliance men. If Senator Stanford's 2-per-cent land scheme is ever carried out it may become necessary to melt up that magnificent gold dinner service of his to supply the demand. Reader, Shebyville: Address C. A, Snowden, secretary Board of Trade, Tacoma. Wash., for the information you want No crow for the hostiles in the hour of their defeat if you please! "Boiled dog" is good enough for them. , To the Editor of the XutU&napoils Journal! Under the interstate-commerce act is there a penalty lor issuing free passes by railroads to other than employes of the roads! Reader. The only provisions of the act which can be construed as relating to free passes are, first that part of Section 3 which says "it shall be unlawful for any common-carrier subject to the provisions of this act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation or locality in any respect whatever." Another section provides for the posting of schedule rates, and says that when any road shall have established and published its rates and fares, "it shall be unlawful to charge, demand, collector receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation for the transportation of passengers or freight than the schedule rates." Finally, Section 22 says: "Nothing in this act snail be construed to prevent railroads from giving free carriage to their own officers and employes, or to prevent the principal officers of any railroad company from exchanging passes or tickets with other railroad companies for their officers and employes." We do not know that there' has been any judicial construction of these provisions iu regard to passes. Like all other provisions of tho law, they apply only to railroads extending from one State into another, and do not interfere at all with the issuing of passes wholly within one State. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: What is the difference between the olt and the ohm, as is used in electrical phraseology! IKQLTEFB. They relate to entirely different things. The terms used in connection with electrio motor currents are the volt, the unit of pressure; the ampere, the unit of flow Of current; and the ohm, the unit of resistance. The meaning of these terms can be illustrated by the analogy of. water. The volt is similar to the head of water which drives it forward, the volt causing the current of electricity to flow along the conductor. The ampere, or unit of the rate of flow, is exactly comparable to the amount of water flowing through a pipe in a given time, and the ohm, or resistance to the flow cf electricity, corresponds to the friction, or other causes which retard the flow of water. Every conductor of electricity offers some resistance, and whatever the amount of the resistance may be, it is called the ohm.' Another technical term is waits, which is the product of volts and amperes. For example, fifty amperes at ten volts pressure, -would equal five hundred waits, or ten amperes at fifty volts would equal the same. Seven hundred and forty-six waits constitute one electrical horse-power; consequently the amount of work which a dynamo machine is capable of doing would be expressed by the

equation, horse-power equals volts multiplied by amperes and divided by 713.

BUBBLES IN TIM HE. The Modern email Bey. Caller And do you iove your teacher, Jchnsyl Johnny Naw. She's a brunette. Blondes are my style. Ills Kataral Dent. Mrs. Flgg I wonder what we shall make ot Tonimyl Mr. Flgg rut him Into a newspaper efT.ee, I guess. Judging from the detaUshe brings la about Laura and ber young man he ought to make a good court reporter. Compensation. Minflle Do you think the wife of a rublio maa can ever know the true home-happtness of one married to an obscure toller, whose whole little world is bound up in his familyf Mamie Don't know. I never married a statesman, But she has her name in the papers. Wisdom's Perennial Fount. Tommy-My tenth birthday, yesterday, puts me In my tenth year, don't It, ma! Mrs. Figg No; you are now In ycr eleventh year. Your first year was until you were one year old, your second year until you were two, and so on. Tommy Why, that's so, of course. A feller never gets too old to learn. Unconsidered Trifles. Bometlmes a great man's son is a chip of the old block, and sometimes he is only a small, slender splinter. Those who call the Indians beggars misapprehend the status ot the red brethren. The lineal descendants of the original owners ot the sou, the only genuine, blown-in-tbe-bottle Americans, the Indians demand favors from the invading whites as a tribute due to the only United States aristocracy. Blood must be respected, though, covered with several layers of alluvial deposit. Latter-day whites may Jeer at this idea, but It U the feeling that animates Mr. Lo. Up to the hour of going to press no mob had raided the Chicago Tribune for confessing that "the world's fair of 1893 is a national concern and not a Chicago enterprise." Chicago local rrtde must be dying out or attenuated by being stretched over too much virgin prairie. If saU !n the circumstances. The haughv painter carrying c pot of color along the crowded street becomes a mott humble individual when he carries a pane of glass. BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. President Carnot contemplates the entire demolition of the fortifications about Paris. The subscription by female clerks in Washington for a monument to General Spinner is said to be making great headway. One of the significant educational tendencies of the day is the increased interest in the study of history and politics at Johns Hopkins University. Co-education of the sexes is a success la Columbia College, Missouri, forty-two marriage engagements having been reported so far between the boys and girls of that institution. Tue Siamese are gradually picking up some knowledge outside of their own land. There are six Siamese students at Westminster College, a small institution at New Wilmington, Pa. The French Academy of Sciences has awarded the Janssen prize for 1800 to Prof. Charles A. Young, of Princeton, the wellknown astronomer, in recognition of his discoveries in spectroscopy. Leland Stanford is the richest man ia California. His wealth is now estimate at S50,000.00a He was born in New York became a lawyer in Wisconsin and went to California with the Argonauts in 1S40L The pox o-ait that is to adorn the twodollar treasury noto which the Treasury Department is about to issue, is that of Gen. C. 13. McPherson, who was killed at' Atlanta shortly before Sherman began his march to the sea. Gainsborough's portrait of the beautiful Eliza Ann Linley (the wife of Richard Brinsley Sheridan), with her brother, has been sold to Alfred Rothschild for 12,000 guineas, or about $G3,OJ0 a monstrous price even for so line a work. Mrs. Edison, the inventor's wife, is twenty-five years old. She is of medium height and has a plump, figure. Her complexion is olive, her mouth firm and her eyes a shade darker than her hair, which is brown, abundant and wavy. The Manhattan Club of New York has turned the roof garden on its new clubhouse into a skating-rink. The water ia let in and allowed to freeze. A red ball, iu the lower corridor ot the club-house, is hoisted whenever there is skating on tho root Somethino impressive in the way of a banquet ia to be given at Wormley's, in Washington, on Feb. 6, in honor of Justice Harlan, by the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. At least 250 guests are expected to be present, 100 of them coming from New York by special train. Zadkiel, the English astrological ah manac-maker, in his forecast for the present month, says that "his Royal Highness, the Duke of Clarence and Avondale, has the moon at his birthday anniversary in the place of Mars at his birth, and it thereby warned to avoid dangerous places or he may meet with an accident." Andrew Lang has never been in robust health, and now he is said to be fast becoming a valetudinarian. Within six months his lungs have exhibited an alarming weakness and frequent hemorrhages have occasioned his friends most serious apprehensions. But his ill-health does not interfere with his inclination or ability for work. The cable reports of Amelie Rives-Chan-ler'a dangerous illness in Paris are not generally credited at ber old home in Virginia. People there think that her trouble is bronchitis, which often ensues when she takes cold. She has had three attacks of la grippe within a year, and as a result her bronchial tubes have become very sensitive to cold. Helen Gardener, author of "Is This Your Son, My Lord!" the novel which is creating such a furore in the East is about thirty years old. She is a really boautiful woman, a little above medium height, of well-rounded proportions, with an intellectual face, deep brown eyes, full red lip. and high, broad forehead. She possesses radical views, and is a terse, strong writer. Frinck Bismarck's present hobby, according to an interviewer, is a little wren which flies about his room and eats out ot his band. They say the Emperor takes very little notice of Bismarck. The New Year's card sent by him to the veteran statesman was only observing a custom which is universal in Germany, and possessed no special significance. The Prince himself is in excellent health, and may daily be seen riding or walking with one of his sons. A diamond necklace formed of a single row of enormous solitaires suspended from a slender gold chain set with little diamonds, each stone a marvel of purity and brilliancy as well as size, adorns the showroom of a Paris jewelry store. This splendid ornament was to have formed the Christmas gift of one of the partners in thts banking-house of Baring Brothers to his wife, but when misfortune befell the firm the necklace was left on the jeweler's hands. It is valued at 200,000. Vive of the most profitable industries, viz, blacksmlthing, wheelwrighting, tinsmithing, harness and ahoemaking. of the Normal School at Tuskegee, Ala., have so far outgrown their quarters as to be carried on at great disadvantage. With l,uoo the students can saw the lumber, burn tho bricks, and put up a brick building 40x120, two stories, by which the capacity of these industries will be more than doubled and the ability of the school to aid needy students equally increased. Professor Washton will be glad to hear from any who may be Interested in this practical investment "And what is shame! I asked a hoary sage. lie grimly smiled, nor paused to ponder long. But gruiMy answered, "fehaine, my on. Is what We mortals feel whene'er our friends do wrong. Sew Ygix Utisii