Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1891.

THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY. JANUARY 27. 1891.

VrASniNGTONOFFlCR-513 Fourteenth at. P. ft. HEATH, Correspondent. Telephone Call. rilncM OSce S3 1 Editorial Boorai HI t TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DAILY BT MAIL One rear, -without FnmiaT.One year, with Sunday. -. ...'......-............. 14.00 Hi race t ha, without t-undny &.00 Hi woatbP. Ub HurtUy 7.00 Three montfca. without ssnnday 100 Three month, witb Sunday Cue month, without Huntlay l.oo Oae month, with &anUj- . 1.20 Dfeiirercd by carrier in city, 3 cents per week. WKXKLY. Xcr ?4vr 100 Redneed Rates to Club. Gobucribe with any of cur numerous agenta, r aenfl aabscripttons to the J0UENAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, , 1SDIA5APOU8, 1XD. Persona aendlng the Journal through the malls in the United fcUtea ahould put on an eight-page paper a cxx-cxjrr poaure stamp, on a twelve or aixteenrajre rarer a two-cixt rtaae atamp. Foreign XKUgo la u anally double thaae rate a. All communication intended for publieation in this papermust, in order to receive attention, be accompanied by the name ana address of the tcriter. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: PA BIS American Exchange in Paria, 38 Boulevard Ces tapacuies UEW YORK Gilaey Honae and Windsor IloteL PHILADELPHIA -A. P. Kemtle, 3733 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer Houae. CINCINNATI-J. R. Ilawley A Co., 154 Vine street XOUISVILLE CL T. Teering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson atrecta. BT. LOUIS "Union Newa Company, Union Depot and bouthern IloteL WASHINGTON. D. O Rhrgs noose, and Zbbitt liouae Five Economic Truth. 1. The free trade -which exists "within a nation cannot be established between nations. 2. Protection economizes the production and distribution of products to national advantage. 3. The continuous home production of staple commodities in large quantities is necessary to the redaction of their price. 4. Protection benefits all classes, and especially the laborers. 5. The home market must be the chief reliance of all producers, especially of the farmers, and that there are no foreign market! which would compensate for the openinn 'of our homo market to European competition. All the world hates a political traitor. TnE Republican Senators who voted with the Democrats yesterday to overslaugh the elections bill went squarely back on Republican principles. The old rebel yell broke oat in the House yesterday when it was announced that the elections bill wasy killed. Why not! It was a confederate victory. - It is not probable that a single Democratic member of .the Indiana Legislature has seen a copy of the elections bill now pending in theUnited StatesSennte. We gather from tho dispatches that there is a senatorial election pending: in Kansas, and that Mr. Ingalls is a candidate. It seems to be a picturesque affair. Between f ree-silver-comage Senators and anti-honest-election Senators the Republican majority in the Senate is in hard lines. It is hard to light against an attack in tho rear. WniLE the plan of a new charter and subsequent city extension is under discussion it would be well to avoid the snag against which Kansas City recently ran, to her great damage. r If any Democratic member of the House will say that he has ever read or even seen a copy of the so-called "force bill', wo will send him a copy of tho daily Journal for one year. Now. as in 18G1, the Democratic leaders in Indiana make haste to show their subserviency to tho Southern leaders. See the ridiculous and humiliating resolutions adopted by them in the House yesterday. Saturday tho New York banks held :M,09,773 in excess -of tho 23 per cent, surplus required by law a gain of 64,Q5,9od during the week, which proves tha. money is abundant at the Eastern metropolis. The lourbon Legislature of Missouri has advia ?d the Legislature of Illinois to elect John M. Palmer .to the United States Senate. When Illinois accepts that advice, it consigns itself to the guardianship , of political Rip Van Winkles. . The gentleman from Orange, Mr.Trimblc, is correct: When a constituency elected him to the House, he very properly assumed that they thought so little of their votes that they would sell them at a very low figure if they had an opportunity. Indiana has not been placed in so humiliating a position sinco a Democratic Legislature refused to vote money to equip its volunteers for tho Union service as it was yesterday, when it joined tho Democratic rebellion against the world's fair. A puomikknt Democratic official was asked, a few days since, if ho was run ning the Legislature, and his reply was in the affirmative. If it is true, he re lieves the majority of a deal of stupidity "which is now being attributed to those who compose it, and they should have the benefit of the announcement. The statement has been made that tho Stato Teachers' Association in dorsed the present Bchool-book law. This is not true. The association adopted a resolution favoring compulsory education, and further resolved, "that wo favor a law giving to tho respective echool corporations of tho State tho power to purchase for and furnish to schools ail necessary text-books free of charge. This places the association on record in favor of free text-books, which is the position of advanced educators iill over tho country. m Countless ftlunins of trashhavebeen written and printed about the franchise of tho 6trcet-car company, none of which has had tho slightest practical bearing on tho points at issue. Tho public is growing tired of this, and the letter of Mr. W. D. Wiles, printed in the' Journal of Monday, and that of Mr. JL B. McCnne, in this issue, will bo as welcome as the shadow of a great rock fa a weary land. The practical ideas

advanced by these practical business men ought to furnish a basis on which to negotiate an agreement satisfactory and honorable to both the city and tho company. ' THE PEBDIXQ ELECTIONS BELL. No bill was ever introduced in the American Congress that aimed to accomplish better results in a more legitimate way than the pending elections bill. It is pre-eminently right in its purpose and constitutional in its methods. The objects aimed at are essential to the preservation of the government, and tho means it proposes to employ are in strict accordance with the Constitution

and with established precedents. It aims at the establishment of free and fair national elections by the elimination of force and fraud as controlling elements, and it ainis to do this by methods already tested and approved by the experience of nearly twenty years. No measure has ever been more persistently, maliciously and recklessly lied about, and none ever deserved better of the people by reason of the enemies it has. ; Tho pending bill is simply an amplification of the law passed in 1872 providing for the appointment of supervisors of congressional elections. That law has been in force eighteen years, and so far as known has - never been abused. In many instances it has accomplished good results, and in no instance bad ones. It has repeatedly been called into service by Democrats. It has been invoked more than onco by Democrats in this State, for the alleged purpose of preventing fraud. In 1888 the Democrats of Chicago asked for the appointinentof supervisors under it. In tho same year nine cities in Massachusetts asked for supervisors, and in four of them the application was made by chairmen of Democratic committees. In 1800 tho Democratic chairmen of Boston and Taunton appealed to the law and asked for the appointment of supervisors. In Lowell a Democratic member of the City Council signed the petition, and Democrats in five other cities did the same. The chief supervisor in Massachusetts, under the present law, is a Democrat, and he would continue to be under the new law, if it were passed. The chief supervisor in southern Ohio is a Democrat, so is the chief supervisor of Kentucky, and, perhaps, other States. The present supervisor for this State is United States Commissioner Van Buren. His predecessor was Commissioner Albert Baker. They never robbed anybody of their liberties or interfered with any election. There has never been any opposition to the present law, nor any movement for its repeal, though it has been in force nearly twenty years. The pending bill is simply an amplification of it, introducing no new principle, and without even the remotest suggestion of force in any of its provisions. It is opposed only because .it aims to prevent force and fraud. Under the present law the chief supervisor of elections is appointed by the United States circuit judge, and must be a United States, commissioner. The court can designate any commissioner for the position, and he may be removed by the court for cause. Assistant supervisors are appointed by the court, not by the chief, and they cannot bo appointed except on tho application of citizens. Under the .present law two citizens in any city of twenty thousand population, or ten citizens in any county may havo assistant supervisors appointed. The pending bill requires one hundred citizens in each case instead of two and ten. The assistant supervisors are to be appointed by the judge in open court, and must be residents and qualified voters of the district where they are to serve. The bill provides for the appointment of three supervisors in each voting district, but two of whom shall be of the same political party. Thus two-thirds of the supervisors would be of one political party and one-third of another. The supervisors are to hold their commissions for eighteen months only, and to receive pay only for tho days when actually employed. No work, no pay. Moreover, their appointments may be revoked at any time by tho court. It has been charged again and again that the bill provided for the appointment of supervisors for life. This is false. It has also been charged again and again that it provided for the use of "bayonets" or some kind of force in its enforcement. This is also false. There is nothing of the kind in the bill. The supervisors thus appointed, of opposite political parties, are to perform certain duties in connection with "the enforcement of the election laws of the United States77 in the district where they are assigned to duty. There is no authority whatever to interfere with State laws or regulations simply to en force United States laws. If a State has a registration law, the supervisors may investigate and verify tho registry lists so far as to see that there is no fraud perpetrated. It is also made their duty, on tho morning of election day, "to personally examine and inspect the ballotboxes in which ballots for Representa tive iu Congress are to be deposited," to make sure that there are no ballots in them. This is to prevent ballot-box stuffing. They are also required to keep a list of the names of all persons whose votes are rejected by the local officers, "and the .reasons given for each such rejection." They are also to receive all such ballots of rejected voters and mark and file them away for use in the event of a con test. The bill also'provides that super visors "shall inform all voters who may inquire of them in w hat box any of their ballots should properly . be placed, and prevent, as far ns possible, the depositing of any ballot in the wrong box. This provision would only apply in such States as have several ballot-boxes intended to confuse and mislead voters. The supervisors aro authorized to be present at the counting and canvassing of the vos and to keep a tally list of their own, but "all such ballots shall be counted and canvassed in the manner provided by tho laws of the respective States, save that in the particulars men tioned in this act the mode therein set forth shall be followed." Other provisions of the law relate to tho count

ing of the ballots, the canvassing of the returns and the certification of the

result. They are all directed to the single end of securing fair elections and an honest count of the ballots actually deposited and those wrongfully rejected. The bill provides that if in any district or precinct the local authorities refuse or neglect to open the polls for any regular election the supervisors may do so. It also contains a provision that the act "shall not prevent any State from providing by law, if it eee fit, that ballots shall be provided at the public expense, containing the names of such candidates for the office of Representative in Con gress as may have been nominated by the qualified voters in the congressional district, nor from providing suitable regulations for ascertaining such nomination, and for screening from observa tion the vote of each voter and keeping the same secret, save as hev-sin pro vided." This permits each and every State to enact and en force the Australian ballot law. This is the sum and substance of the pending elections bill, called by Dem ocrats and mugwumps "the force bill." From beginning to end of it there is not a suggestion of force. It does not inter fere in any manner with the State laws, except in so far as they interfere with the Constitution of the United States. It does not in any manner or degree in terfere with home rule. It does not interfere with State rights, unless they attempt to override United States rights. It does not interfere with fair and honest elections, nor with election officers, unless they violate the law. It does not apply to State, county or local elections, nor even to presidential elections. It applies only to elections for Representa tives in Congress, of which the Constitution gives Congress supreme control. And, in these elections, instead of pre venting any legal voter from depositing his ballot, it aims to get every honest ballot into the box. In short, it does not interfere with anything except fraud. No man who opposes it can look his neighbor in the face and say he favors honest elections. No man who opposes it can be other than a dishonest man at heart This was the bill which was laid aside in the Senate yesterday by a coalition between Democrats and a few Republicans. In the opinion of the Journal a more unholy political alliance never was formed. That every Democrat should oppose the bill was to be expected, but that any Republican should have done so is amazing. All honor to those who stood by the principles of the party and in favor of honest elections. It is only a question of time when these principles will triumph, or free government itself will fail. The Republican party will accept the issue and fight it out on that line. IN HO SENSE FUNNY. A few days since a contemporary, which assumes to regard everything as a joke, said that the recent war-scare in England over the Behring sea contro versy "was too funny for anything." Sentiiblo people will fail to see where the fun comes in. The New York Times printed an entirely unfounded dispatch, based upon the alleged statement of naval officers, that our government was concentrating its naval strength in the Pacific, affirming that this show of force was intended as a preparation for more vigorous measures for the seizure of sealers next season. The dispatch would not havo attracted attention had it not been most explicit in giving the names and armament of the ships directed to the Behring sea. The New York Times should not have published such a statement, an1 it would not if its mission were not to malign the present adminis tration. The Philadelphia correspondent of the London Times, assuming that the information of its New York namesake was correct, immediately cabled it to that paper, which spread it beforo the British people as evidence that our government had resolved on warlike measures. The result was to cause much unfriendly feeling in England, which will" take some time to subside. The editor who can find lots of fun in such a transaction as this never need be without amusement. The course of the New York Times in this matter shows the unscrupulous character of a part of the newspapers opposed to the administration. It would have been the easiest thing in the world for its Washington correspondent to have ascertained the facts about the matter, and to have found that its dispatch was a sensational fabrication. If inquiry had been made, it would have found that our fleet in tho Pacific is smaller than usual, but it did not want to find out anything of this kind. It was anxious to make the people believe that the administration was pursuing a course which would have been regarded as a menace and have put an end to further negotiations. There seems to be no way to prevent such recklessness in journalism, but among patriotic and fair-minded people there can be but one opirion about it. They certainly will see no fun in it, unless a practical joke is of more importance than the establishment of good will between two nations. INDIANA TAIL TO THE SOUTHERN DOG. The Indiana Democracy can always be depended on to play tail to the Southern dog and eat dirt when the exconfederates bid them to. They have done this very often, to the disgrace and damage of the State. They did it again yesterday in the House when they adopted the asinine resolution offered by Mr. Beasley relative to the elections bill and the World's Columbian Exposition. It was not surprising that Southern Slates should attempt to connect the two things and resort to the silly bluff of refusing to make appropriations for the exposition while the elections bill was pending. Such action on their part was characteristic and natural, although supremely ridiculous. But it is amazing that a singlo member of the Indiana Legislature could be found willing to play second fiddle in this puerile game of Southern bluff. Of all those who voted in favor of the Beasley resolution, including the author of it, not one has ever read the elections bill or had a copy of it in his hand. Their only knowledge

of it is derived from the reckless mis

representations and ridiculous outbursts of the Indianapolis Sentinel. The action of the House was disgraceful. AN AGENT FOE CURRENCY I2XPAN8ION. The Journal has no more interest in the national banking system than has any pa per or individual desiring the general prosperity of the country. Consequently, when it declares in fav( r of the system it does so because it believes that it is a most useful agency in the transaction of the commerce of the country. The domestic trade of the United States is the largest of any country in the world. Its territory, over which commercial transactions extend on a large scale, is the most extensive in the world, and requires the best facilities for the transfer of money and its representatives if the commodities of one section are to bo sold in every other where they t re needed. This transfer can only be made through an extensive banking system, and for which transfer the national banking system is the most perfect in the world. It -is, in fact, a national system, because there is not a city of ten thousand people in any part of tho country which has not a national bank, and comparatively few of three thousand inhabitants are without such an institution. More national banks were organized the past year than in any recent previous one, and they have been organized in parts of the country where they were needed chiefly for the promotion of general business. But for them tho vast amount of money which measures the values of commodities exchanged would have to he paid in actual money. The country has not a tenth of the actual money which would be required if actual money payments were made. It could not get enough if that money were as good & the best in the world. The man in Indianapolis who had a thousand dollars to pay in Chicago would be obliged to hunt up the money and send it by express, were it not for the exchange system which has been perfected by the national banks. Now he takes his money to a bank and gets a draft on Chicago. The man to whom it is sent in Chicago takes it to his bank there and it goes into the clearing-house, where it is practically paid without tho transfer from hand to hand or from bank to bank of a dollar. During the year 1890 over $60,000,000,000 of bank paper was settled through the clearing-houses of the country by the use of a small per cent, of that amount of actual money. As a matter of fact, all the larger trade of the country is carried on by the use of bank checks and drafts. In all cities men who do much business keep a bank account and pay their bills with checks, which the banks swap, t o to speak, at the clearinghouses, or in daily transactions, without the transfer of any actual money. It is estimated that only 8 per cent, of the business transactions in this country are made with coin, treasury and bank notes. In France 44 per cent, of the trade and exchange of the people is done with coin and bank notes, for which reason the actual money per capita in France is double that of the United States, while the transactions per capita are not nearly , as "raj-go there as here. The circulation of the national banks is a matter of . no importance to the majority of them, and ninetenths of them would surrender their charters if circulation was their main source of revenue. Their great service to the whole country is in econ omizing tho use of money in making eight coin or paper dollars do the work of one hundred. At a time when there is so much excited clamor for the overthrow of, the national banking system, fair-minded people should consider this and other features of the national banking system which commend it to the intelligent. The system could be improved, but its defects are inconsequential compared with its great and general benefits to the whole country. : A WELL-EARNED TRIulfPH. The opening of the Indianapolis Propylffium is an event over which the women personally concerned are well justified in rejoicing, but it is also one in which every citizen may rightfully take pride. Indianapolis women, individually and collectively, long since demonstrated their possession of an admirable degree of ability, energy and public spirit, and the city has become noted far and wide for the intellectual activity of the feminine element of its society. This activity is manifested in a variety of ways, but most strikingly in the formation of clubs, literary, artistic and musical. The existence of these clubs created a want, namely, that of a suitable home or meeting-place, to which, though it had been felt in equal force by members of similar organizations composed of men, the women were the first to give practical recognition. Although individual women have so often prosecuted business enterprises successfully that their ventures in this line now create little comment, the belief has obtained among a large class of per sons that associations made np exclusively of women cannot work together in harmony. The fact that they do work in all sorts of charitable, religious, educational and social organizations in quite as much harmony as their hus bands and brothers is not accepted as conclusive .by those who cannot rid themselves of time-worn prejudice and antiquated notions of feminine ability. "Financial operations are the test," say these conservative persons, and doubtless this is true of any aggregation of civilized human beings in this mer cenary age. But the Indianapolis wemen have now been tried by this supieme test and have come out with flying colors. The Propylxum is owned exclusively by women, no man being numbered among the four hundred stock holders; the scheme originated with women, or, more properly, a woman, Mrs. May Wright Sewall, to whom especial credit is due; the plan was de veloped and carried to completion by women, and its future management will be under their control. All this, it must be confessed, too, has been accomplished with much less noise and flourish of trumpets than is usual with such under

takings in masculine hands. Now that

it is completed it fills a want that every body recognizes and that is shown by the instant demand for its rooms for all sorts of entertainments, social, religious, dramatic, and what not. It has at once become an important institution, and will presently be regarded as an indis pensable one. The building, which is an architectural ornament to the city, takes its place as one of the features of Indianapolis to which resi dents "point with pride." The women are right in jubilating over its completion not merely because the fact demonstrates their business talent, but because their success goes far to dispel musty traditions and lingering prejudice concerning the abilities and characteristics of theif sex. They literally open for their sisterhood a gateway to a wider field of usefulness and activity. The men of Indianapolis, in contemplating the institution and reflecting upon the circumstance that they, as a body, have carried through no enterprise of such public importance, may well step aside and humbly lift their hats. Census Bulletin No. 22 is devoted to statistics relative to the quantity of distilled spirits consumed in the arts, man ufactures and medicine. The quanti ties of the different kinds of spirits which the special agents found to have been consumed during the year 1889 in proof gallon's were as follows: Alcohol, 6,745,152; cologne spirits, 1,453,048; high wines, 75,992; whisky, 2,023.900; brandy, 206,874; gin, 84,937 total, 10,976,842. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue re ported that 10,739,734 gallons of alcohol were withdrawn from bond during the year which ended Jnne 30, 1889, indicating that considerably more than onethird of this kind of spirits are used for other purposes than the mechanic arts and medicine. This fact has led to an inquiry which has led to the discovery that a large quantity of alcohol is consumed as a beverage by a certain element of the foreign population, particu larly the Poles, Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, Hungarians and Russians. It has also been discovered that at least fifteen barrels of this burning liquor is consumed every day in the low bar-rooms of New York city. An exchange which keeps the statistics of the amounts which Southern Democratic States have lost by defaulting Treasurers gives the following as the lat est aggregate of shortages: State Treasurer Churchill, of Arkansas $80,522.01 State Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee 400,000.00 state Treasurer Vincent, or Alabama 243,148.94 State Treasurer Tate, of Kentucky. 247.02S.50 State Treasurer Burke, of Louisiana 827,000.00 State Treasurer Nolan, of Missouri 32,445.00 State treasurer Hemingway, of Mississippi 315,000.00 State Treasurer Archer, of Maryland 132,401.25 State Treasurer Woodruff, of Ar kansas 94,000.00 Total shortage $2,368,545.70 It is said that in some of these States which are rescued, from negro rule by ballot-box frauds a large number of county treasurers are in arrears. In Ar kansas, which has had two defaulting State Treasurers, thirteen county treas urers are so behind in their accounts that suits will have to be brought against the bondsmen to obtain any part of the tax-payers' money. The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette yesterday said: Those who believe that the national elec tions law will do no good but harm, and that to lay it aside will be "good politics." must make up their minds to concede other demands from the most relentless set of partisans that ever occupied seats in ConSress. ' w w ine real question oi tne ay, of the year and of the century, in .the life and history of our country, cannot be evaded. It is not civil-service reform, nor the Interstate Commission and control of railroads: it is not free coinage, nor a foreign policy, nor the tariff, but the establishing of national authority by securing the integrity of the bUot-box and the full protection of the rights of American citi zenship, in enforcing the laws and making it not only possible, but certain that all other national questions may be promptly settled. Every word of this is true, yet there were some Republican Senators weak and cowardly enough to voto with tho Democrats to side-track this most just and vital measure. Let them look to the Democracy for their reward. Mr. King, the American consul-general at Paris, declares that the McKinlev tariff has not hurt trade from France. Of coarse it has not for the simple reason that most of the exports of France to the United States are articles for the rich and a little increase iu price would not deter them from buying. This is just what the Democrats have al ways contended for. Kansas Lity limes (Dem.) Why, certninlyl There can be little doubt that the Democrats originated all the provisions of the McKinley law re lating to Fiench imports. When sugar is cheaper we will discover that the removal of the sugar duties has always been a Democratic idea, and when home competition brings down the price of tin it will appear that this is right in line with Democratic doctrine. In fact, within the next decade we may expect to hear that the McKinley bill is a Democratic measure all the way through. Representative Trimble, of Orange, has raised quite a hornet's nest by his public declaration that the people of his county had no money to pay taxes since the Australian ballot law was passed His constituents do not relish being advertised in that way. After all, howev er, Mr. Trimble has only done what ev ery Democratic paper in the State has done a hundred times, viz., branded his own party friends as bribe-takers. The Journal has not a particularly high opinion of Indiana Democrats, but it does not believe that so many of them are habitual bribe-takers as Democratic pa pers are in the habit of asserting. TnERE can be no stronger evidence of the gTowth of sentiment against lotte ries than the order issued by Archbishop Ireland prohibiting this system of rais ing money for charitable purposes by the people of his diocese. Lotteries in various forms and games of chance havo long been a prominent feature of the charity fairs of that church, and have, of course, been regarded as entirely proper by the persons in charge, so that this official edict indicates a decided change of popular opinion and a distinct advance in the direction of reform. The proposition embodied in a pend ing bill in the Legislature to prohibit the shooting of quails for five years

seems to partake of impulsive legislation.

It is thev general understanding that quails are sufficiently protected by the present law, which prohibits shpoting them except between Oct. 15 and Dec. 20. Under this provision they multiply very rapidlj. It is likely that if entirely pro tected ' for a period even shorter than five years they would become a nuisance to farmers. Next Saturday, one month aftar the date of its first meeting, the Indianapolis Press Club will move into commodious and wellfurnished club-rooms on the ground-floor of the Bank of Commerce buildinjr. For an infant organization it is showing a sur prising amount of vigor. The fact is comparatively unknown that newspaper men and paid writers all over the State are eligible to membership, bnt such is the case, and ncn-residents of Indianapolis will probably not be slow in recognizing the advantages of a pleasant "loafing place" at the capital. Within a couple of years the Press Club should have every reputable editor in Indiana upon its rolls. Speaking of weather, of which Europe and the Atlantic coaat are having a "spell," it may be worth while to remark again that Indianapolis as a weather resort has few if any equals north of the Ohio river. As a proof of this, few of its people are tonnd traveling in search of a milder climate between September and Jnne. It takes but six inches of snow to par alyze New York. That city will talk of its dreadful experience with its last "great storm" until everybody is tired. Out West that much ot a snow-fall is not considered worth making a fuss about. While Indianapolis is reveling in balmy, spring-like weather, it is hard to realize' that the Eastern States are completely snow-bound. BUBBLES IN THE AIR. Anatomically Impossible. "Come, now; don't bite off your nose to spite your face." "Do you take me for an elephantf A Communist. "Married, ain't yet" asked the cook. , "Yes, sorter," answered the new housemaid. "What does your man do!" "He's a Communist. "Communist! What sort o Job is thatt "W'y, on sunny days he sets around in the park. Calls it communin' with nature. A Theatrical Engagement. "I think I have a place for you, said the man ager. "Yest answered the fallen star. "Yes. You see, in the last act of Brownson's new piece the villagers organize a mob and hang the villain in effigy." . . . "Do you think I'll take any such part as thatf Leading a mob of supers? Why, man, when we , played in Mattoou, IiL, I was called before the curtain -' i "I don't Intend you to lead tire supers. ,Tou are to be the ettigy. 'ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Sarasate, the violinist, has pocketed $25,000 as the net profit of a two months' tour in England. The Emptror of Germany, while enter taining much more freely than his grandfather did, has a keen eye to economy. The Prince of Nassau, who enjoys an an nual income of $1,000,000, is now in England, and is said to be looking for a wife. .' Kino Alexandria of Servia is now a strong, healthy boy of fourteen, and has developed mental powers of great promise. Dr. Widnek, of California, who has lived among the Indians for thirty years, says that no white men can hope to equal them in physical development. Princess Marianne, wife of Lucien Bonaparte, who is separated from her hus band, lives in Ajaccio, and is the only mem ber of the Honaparte lainily now living in Corsica. A collection of books that had belonged to President . Fillmore was recently auctioned off at Buffalo, and but small prices were realized, some of the law-books bring ing but 5 cents apiece. Until quite recently the old Essex Head tavern on the Strand, London, which was one of Dr. Johnson's favorite resorts, has been kept by two Misses Fielding, who were descendants of the author of "Tom .Tones." Now, however, the old building is to be pulled down. Jay Gould's daily income is said to be about $7,500. But this is rather small com pared to Rockefeller, who is supposed to receive $18,000 daily, or Astor, who gets $23,. 000 daily, or even Cornelius Vanderbilt, who has to get along with 515,000 every twenty-four hours. Henry Johnson, a slave with a history. who was set free by his master, Mr. Foxall, and who waited on Clay, Webster, Calhoun aud other great men, and who is said to have come in contact with every Presi dent save Washington, is living in poverty at the age of ninety years in Washington. The King of Siam will soon send six youths from his kingdom to Pennsylvania to be educated. They are all to become physicians. The young men are chosen from among the poorer classes, and the ex pense of their tuition, about 500 a vear each, is to be borne by the Siamese government. Franklin W. Smith, of Boston, is the projector of an ambitious scheme to build an immense temple of the arts at Washington. It is to cost $3,000,000 and occupy 150 acres of ground. Mr. Smith has had the plans drawn, it is said, and hopes to raise enough money in the next Hve years to be gin tne worK. Samuel Plimsoll, long known as the "Sailor's Friend," owing to his services in Parliament, and who gave ud his seat in that body, ten years ago, to Sir Vernon iiaroourt, has recentl v been in some u estera cities of the United States, investigat ing the subject of shipping American beef to ngiaua. xie aoes not iavor sending me cattle across the ocean alive. Dr. Kate C. Bushnell, of Evanston, long associated with the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union work for the promotion of social purity, expects to sail for Knglaud the latter part of this month. Dr. Bushnell goes by request of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union on a trip around the world, in which she will be accompanied by Mrs. Llizabeth Wheeler Audrew. until recently associate editor of the Union Signal. The lato King David Kalakaua was educated side by side with the little sons of the missionary David Armstrong. One of these sons is now principal of Hampton School for Indians and Negroes, and the other is a Prominent lawyer in New York. Mr. Wm. 1. Armstrong was asked, in 18S0, by King Kalakaua to become his Attorney-generai. He accepted the position, and shortly afterward the King and Mr. Armstrong made the tour of the world together. General Palmer tells this story of Liu coin: "I was once called to Washington to see Mr. Lincoln on a matter of business. It was in 18G3. I was shown into an anteroom, and waited for some time. I saw Senators and others going in. and iinally I was called. Mr. Lincoln was being shaved, lie said I was home folks, and he could shave before me. 1 said to him: 'Mr. Lincoln, if I had supposed at the Chicago convention that nominated you that we would have this terrible war 1 would never Lave thought of going down to a one-horse town and getting a one-horse lawyer for President? I did not know how he would take it. but rather expected an answer that I could laugh at. But he brushed the barber to one side, and with a solemn face turned to me and said: 'Neither would I, Palmer. 1 don't believe any great man with a policy could have saved the country. If 1 have contributed to the saving of the country it was because 1 attended to the duties of each

day with the hope that when to-mcnW came 1 would be equal to the duties of that day,' and he turned to the barber." Scow uo and crew In will make a man old; Money and fame at the Wt are beruliinc Don't be suspicious and aeli.&h and cold Try smiling. John Esun Cocke.

THAT A1YFUL "fOKCE" BU.L. It Is Simply a Le?l Slachine to Eecnre a Fair Tots and an Honest CoanL T. C. Crawford, In Xew York Tribune. The election measure is so dreaded by the Southern members that it must be considered a practical bilL If it were the itnpractical measure which they say it is, tbey would not so fear its passage, and they would not be ready to go to such extremes to defeat it. Every form of argument la shape of misrepresentation has been Cmployed against this measure. There is no harm, therefore, in restating the exact point at issue. For the favorite objection to the bill is that if it could be carried out it would establish negro supremacy in the South, and that the whites there would never permit. If the bill could be carried out to the uttermost letter to-mojrow and the solid vote of the colored men of the South could bo counted for the Republican side, such a result would not change the local administration of affairs. The machinery for the regulation of State affairs is in the hands of white Democrats. They will be as much at liberty after the elections bill is passed to count the votes of the- colored men. or not. as they please, for the State offices as they now are. This bill simply regulates the election of members of Congress, and provides for first, federal supervision of the elections and of the count and. in the case of dispute, such dispute can be settled by testimony heard in the United States courts. This will apply to all of the States, and no one in the orth has seriously thought of making any objection to the application of its provisions in that region. It is the South that is said to be in danger. Wherein lies this danger? If the colored districts that is. the districts where the colored vote predominates were to be absolutely controlled by them, this would elect only thirty colored members of Congress from, the South. This would be a small proportion in the 850 odd members of lhe next Congress. It would be no larger representation than their numbers entitle them to. Their election could in no way affect the local situation in the South. There is no mention of any bayonets in the bilL There is nothing in it but a legal machine for the registering of the honest , vote of an election in all sections of the country. There is no member from the South to-day who pretends for a moment that the negro vote is counted. He is practically disfranchised. Many Northern people sympathize with the Southerners in their declaration that they will never permit the vote of the negro to be counted, aud thereby surrender to him the administration of their local aflaira. They say that the peeple of the North would not permit it, and that they are only acting as any community of intelligent white people would act when confronted with the threatened domination of an inferior race. It is this kind of talk which confuses the situation and gains sympathy in the North when there is no place for svmpathy when the facts are made known. The only thins at issue is the question of national eleotions. The Sonth to day has a representation upon the rloor of the House greatly in disproportion to that of the North. One vote in the South now counts for at least two in the North. It is because this power is threatened that there is such a protest and such a shout about Republican tyranny to-day at Washington. The measure presented is purely a business one. The South is always a compact, powerful organization in the counsels of the Demccratio party. It represents the loaded dice of tho political game. Naturally, the men who control this power dislike to surrender it. Against the cold presentation of a business argument of having an honest election in national affairs, the Democratic leaders in Congress answer with threats and epithets. - Reformers "Were Ever Tliua. Philadelphia Telefrraph (Ung.) Whatdoesit all meant Simply that in politics party ties are much stronger than reform theories. Mr. Pattison again owes his election to reform Republican votes, but his administration at the beginning is marked out distinctly on what may bo termed professional Democratic lines. Whatever reform comes through or by it must have the square party braud, without any sid trimmings or adornments of any kind. In other words, this is going to be Democratic administration, nothing more, nothing less. Badly Needed in Indiana. Boston Herald. The new rule up at the State-house providing that all traveling committees of either or both branches shall have all bills for traveling expenses made out in detail, and that the Auditor shall report thenil in print at the beginning of each month, is a blow right between the eyes of legislative junketing parties. Under this rule it is inferred that the item of sundries, which usually covers so many traveling luxuries, will have to be dispensed with this session, and the particular brand mentioned. ropular Taate. Kaoaaa City tar. Here is another Dana sentiment which the Herald should add to its list. Having been asked which as a choice of n&ws mat ter he would leave out of the Sun. if crowded, the Demsey prize-tight or Ingalls's speech, Dana replied that he "would insert the prize-fight and leave out Ingalls.' The answer was correct, the very answer in fact that every wide-awake newspaper man would give. Inpralls's speech was a surprise to a certain extent: the prize-light was both a surprise and a sensation. m The Question Before the Senate. Detroit Tribune. The fight in the Senate is not over any legislative measure. It is a fight between the majority and the minority to see which shall rule. That and that only is the present contention. Is there any doubt in the mind of any reasonable man as to what should be the outcome? Of what use is a legislative body if a minority can absolutely block the wheels of legislation? Store Formidable Than IIlIL Kansas City JournL Colonel W. IL Morrison, of Illinois, is a candidateforthe Democratic nomination for the presidency, and he may yet prove dangerous. Colonel Morrison is quite as extreme a tariff reformer as G. Cleveland and he is. moreover, an acknowledged advocate of free silver. Cleveland is still a goldbug. . The Next Cna Iiaae. Toledo Blade. The currency question is pushing itsslf to tlie front as the issue of the next political battle. Free silver coinage; unlimited greenbacks loaned on crops; ditto, on landa; these are the things called for by so many people that the immediate subiect of debate must necessarily be whether they are to be granted or not. m m Hash Mugwumps. Chicago NTewa. It is rumored that the New York Evening Post and the Springfield Republican have registered in high heaven a solemn vow cot to get their hair cut or whibkers trimmed until John James Ingalls has been done to political death out in Kansas. Can Now Itaauine Thflr Work. CWcaao Inter Oct an. For some weeks past the New York Dem-' ocratic organ have been so busv "netting Governor Hill out of the way" of "Th Claimant" that they have neglected to arrange the "Republican nominations for isyj." Ihey will now perhaps get Conn to their work. Nobody Detains Him but Democrats. Einui City Tim fa ilxm.) For deliberate heartlessness for the sake of possible party advantage, the Illinois Republican legislators are entitled to the palm. A Democratic member's life is in danger.bot the Republicans refuse to allow a pair to permit him to obtain needed relief. Bough on Indiana Democrats. Bnt Laka Tribune. The re-election of Senator Voorhees for Indiana we think is all right. Mi. Yoohees nearer represents the average Indiana Democrat than any other man on earth could.