Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1892 — Page 4

INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, ' SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1892.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, Can be loacd at tie following places: PARIS American Exchange In TarU, SG Boulevard le Capurliie. SEW YOLK GiJey Houae and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. p7KcuibIe, 3735 Lancaster arenue. CHICAGO Pahccr House CINCIXNATI-J. R. 11a wlcy & Ca, 154 Vine street -LOrifcVILLK O. T. Define. northwest corner 1 buti and Jefferson at reel. ET. LOU I Union Xewa Comracr, Union Depot and Soutr-.em Hotel. WASHINGTON, TK C RlgRt House and Ebbttt Hcuae. This is leap year, Imt the rule still holds procul that ono should look before bo leaps. , Nevek did the country enter a new year with so flattering prospects based upon general prosperity. The new year began very much as the old one ended. There wns no distinct improvement in the weather. TiiEiin wns a time when Mr. Cleveland was tho 'Journal's first choice for the Democratic candidato for President, but within tho pa3t month Hill has become Its preference. Since July 1, when all the provisions of the McKinley law went into full force, G3 per cent, of the value of Imported merchandise has come In free of duty, against 35 per cent, under the old tariff law. The Hew Constitution of Kentucky forbids the acceptance and use of free railroad passes by members of the Legislature. .Tho result is that most of the members are spending tho holiday recess in Frankfort. Ale that saves Kentucky from insolvency during the next year is that the Republican Congress refunded tho federal taxes that it reluctantly paid in 1603. Rut Kentucky has been Democratic a long time, and that accounts for it. i A railroad oflicial who speaks by the card eays that the sleeping-car companies clear, on an average, $3,000 a year from a car that costs $10,000. Why cannot this extortionate business be regulated by the same authority which enacted the interstate-commerce lawf The New York Sun, which is now tho first or,?an of the Hill-Tamniany combine, keeps up its attacks upon Mr. Cleveland. In a recent article it refers to him as "tho convex oracle of Buzzard's bay.w This is funny, but it will not bring the Cleveland contingent in New York to that frame of mind where it will vote for David Bennett Hill for a President. ' . It is rather amusing to consider the nmountof taffy which the Chicago Herald bestows upon our Mr. Holm a u in the hope of persuading him to look with fuvor upon the demands of the worhVs fair people, bnt there is reason to suspect that appeals to tho patriotism of the head of the appropriations committee in the expectation of getting dollars will prove unavailing. ' The frieudsof Mr. Watson, the Democratic Representative of Georgia who turned Allianceman and was ono of Jerry Simpson's nine, have held a meeting to reply to his assailan ts. The Atlanta Constitution was denounced, and its editor was accused of declaring at a New York dinner that fro was glad that 'the South was whipped." This is not probably true, but it will let the Constitution know how it is to bo lied about. The London Times once baid, discussing Irish emigration: "One Irishman in tho United States wearing English broadcloth and voting free trado is worth more to England than fifty Irishmen at home." A'ery few Irishmen in the United States wear English broadcloth, but a great many of them, greatly to their discredit, do vote free trade. Such Irishmen are enemies of their native as well ns their adopted country. When the laws of a State are such that the highest court has no remedy to compel the proper counting of votes which are not counted because a county clerk blundered, willfully or otherwise, and returned them differently than they were cast as was done in one case in j New otc. it is high time to have tho laws chauged, unless county clerks are in the future to have more power over elections than a majority of the voters. . The loud acclaim of his henchmen and of the Tammany leaders, who are distrusted by decent Democrats everywhere, may lead David B. Hill to believe that he has only to pursue his reckless and lawless course to reach the presidency, but he will find that he is deceived, as did Aaron Burr, who was one of the founders of Tammany .Hall. The great public which does not applaud and does not hold meetings to express denunciation is making up its mind about this man Hill. Representative Holman, chairman of the committee on appropriations, is quoted as saying: "Tho Fifty-second Congress will stand by the President in any move looking to a vindication of the Nation's honor before tho world, and he will not lack money for such a purpose. Tho question of expense would not involve a moment's hesitation on our part in an emergency of that kind."

This is patriotically said, and does credit to Mr. Hoi man, but it is just as much the duty of Congress to maintain the honor and credit of the government in other respects as in the Chilian matter. Jndicious economy is always in order, but trying to cripple an administration by cutting off or cutting down necessary appropriations is never justifiable.

E1SIEE 8AID THAN DONE. Now that the Democratic and general opposition press have a House of Representatives of their own complexion they have much less to say about tho "billion-dollar Congress" than they did over a year ago. The Democratic orator, it will bo observed, is much less emphatic in his assertions of the necessity of a great reduction than he was on the stump in October, 1800. Doubtless all of them have been looking over the items of the appropriations of the last Congress, and fail to see where they can be honestly reduced without making large deficiencies for the next session to make good. One of the journals of the opposition which has been considering this matter is the Chicago News, with tho following conclusion: It is apparent that no petty pruning will bring trie expenditures of this Congress appreciably lower than those of its predecessor. Indeed, special interests are clamoring for au increased outlay consistent with the growth of the country. Referring to the clamor raised against tho last Congress on the ground of extravagance, the. Chicago paper goes on: It cannot be forgotten that tho sum total of a year's appropriations can only lie fairly criticised when the extraordinarily rapid development of the country is considered. The charges of extravagance against the 'bilIion-dolIar Congress" were due to the demonstration of a generally reckless spirit in handling pnblio moneys. Here is a mistake. There was "no demonstration of a generally reckless spirit of handling money" except that proclaimed by the opposition press. For instance, all of the reports of the committees of both branches on new public buildings were paraded as enacted, and their estimated : cost, which wonld have extended over several years, was put down as new appropriations and compared . with the appropriations of the preceding Congress. It led the country to believe that voting to build public buildings involved the voting of all of the money for their construction during that year. But, after nil, it wns only the "demonstration" which caused the apprehension about the last Congress, not its appropriations. , To prepare the country for about the same expenditure ns that of tho last Congress, and to warn the Democratic Congress against the fatal mistake of sacrificing public interests to narrow demagogy, the Chicago News adds: The postoffice, the river and harbor and the agricultural appropriation bills cannot even be kept within the limits of those paed by the last Congress without raising a storm of opposition that may be detrimental to the politieal hopes of the Democracy. The possibility of a foreign war will make retrenchment in tho army and navy estimates an exceedingly difficult task. The boast of some of the extreme economists that the Congress will be $IC0,( expenditures of this 000,000 less than those of the last may not be f olfilled. bnt the coun try's judgment will bo as harsh against false and nnpatriotio economy as against extravagance. One would have imagined, after hearing the assaults upon the "billion-dollar Congro63," that the present Congress would reduce appropriations two or three hundred millions, but now that reduction has become a practical matter, a cut-down of one hundred millions may not be expected. . . The total appropriations ol the last Congress were $088,410,129.55.' They included $35,088,222.10, the deficiency In pensions, which the Fiftieth Congress should have voted; $0,075,000 for the census, 81.300.000 for French spoliation claims, $1,COO,000 to the national soldiers' homesan imperative necessity $7,000,000 for the purchase of Indian lAnds, $3,000,000 for tho Choctaw claims, and like special appropriations which will not be called for from the '.present Congress. Here are $44,000,000 of the $100,000,000, and if the war taxes refunded the States aro included, there are $00,000,000. Mr. Holman nay undertake to cut down, and he may reduce the appropriations below tho expenditures which Congresses have provided for, which will be made up by deficiency bills after the presidential election, but he and his coterie of petty economists will do well to heed the warning of the Chicago News, namely, that "tho country's judgment will bo as harsh against false and unpatriotic economy as against extravagance." The intelligence of the country no longer believes that pinching to save a few dollars at the expenso of the efliciency of the public service, or of tho carrying on of a national work, is statesmanship. MR. SPRINGER'S TREE WOOL. While Chairman Springer, of the ways and means committee, expresses himself in vociferous delight over his plan for "picking tho McKinley law in pieces," all is not well. Tho Springer plan does not meet with the approbation of the whole free-trade' camp. In fact, all of the free-traders who have any standing as such are hostile to the Springer plan. Free wool is the first thing on the Springer programme. He ia panting for the blood of tho wool. rower8. IIe is first anxious to put sevgrowers, lie is urst anxious to put eral hundred thousand American farmers on a plane with the wool-growers of countries who pay littlo wages and no taxes. This would be a boon for the woolen manufacturers, and would especially delight Mr. Stevens, of the ways and means committee, who is a woolen manufacturer in Massachusetts. He demands free trade when he buys and protection when he sells. New. England has a number of that kind of freo-traders. In fact, all free-traders in business make exceptions of their own industries. But thero are free-traders who, wiser than Mr. Springer, see where his free-wool proposition would put the Democratic party if there is nothing in the bill except a provision putting wool on the free list. Mr. Watterson,of the Louisville CourierJournal, is one of these Democrats, and he is after Mr. Springer with much vigor. Ho tells him that to make wool free, and not to cut down the duty on woolen goods, would increase the outrage of the McKinley law, and would put larger profits into the pock

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ets or tne eastern woolen manu facturer that free wool under such conditions would be a boon for the manufacturer and no relief to the consumer. And Mr. Watterson is right; the Springer proposition of putting wool on the free list would simply bo the sacrifice of the tens and hundreds of thousands of wool-growers in the West to the thousands of manufacturers in the East. Mr. Watterson and all tjiose in the party who have any knowledge of affairs see into what a fix tho support of tho Springer free-wool proposition would put the party; and when the Illinois statesman gets his free-wool bill before the House, if he ever does, it should not surprise the country to see all the followers of Mr. Mills voting1 against it, not becauso they are not in favor of free wool, but because the Democrats cannot go before the country defending a project to sacrifice a thousand Western wool-growers to one Eastern wool manufacturer. A BIGHTEODB DECISION. The decision of the Interstate-commerce Commission in regard to freo passes strikes at the root of a great evil. It is a notorious fact that for years past most of the high officials of the United States and of the different States, members of State legislatures and many persons of high social or business standing have been regularly favored with free passes to any desired extent. So far as officials are concerned it is an iusidious form of bribery. It is easy to say that no harm is intended, and that no ' public official of any 6elf-respect would be influenced in any official opinion or action by tho receipt of a railroad pass, bat human nature is so constituted that men are influenced by the receipt of such favors. The railroad companies know this, and that is why they issue thero. What other possible motive could they have but the expectation of getting some benefit by issuing tho passest As a matter of fact, they know they are benefited. Members of legislative committees on ' railroads, public officials who have to do with the levying and collection of taxes, judges, prosecutors and others whoso duty it is to enforce the law against railroads are undoubtedly hampered and influenced by holding free passes. The railroad's gain is the public's loss. In just so far as the railroads are benefited by passes issued to public officials the public at large is Injured. The growing power of corporations is universally recognized as one of tho greatest evils of the times, and the necessity of curbing them and holding them to stricter responsibility is one of the most pressing of needed reforms. How is this to bo accomplished when all public officials who have to do with the drafting, the enactment, the construction and the enforcement of railroad legislation aro tho recipients and holders of free passes over the roadsT It is absurd to oipect that tho people can get justice under such circumstances. The decision of the Interstate-commerce Commission is right. The practice of issuing free passes to public officials should be broken up. HILL ON NATIONAL ISSUES. The last speech of Governor Hill, so far as it relates to national questions, . clears up tho conflicting and vague utterances of the Elraira effort. Indeed, there is reason to believe that the latter was made for the purpose of explaining the former speech. At any rate the country, so far as it is interested, aud it is interested only so far as his vote as a Senator might affect the free-coinage question, understands the Governor-Senator. He would simply repeal the tariff and silver legislation of the last Congress or take action to that end, leaving the protective tariff law of 18S3 and the silver law which the Sherman act superseded in force. And this is the statesmanship of the present Democratic boss of New York. He proposes no policy; he advocates no ideas; ho simply declares that he is opposed to the legislation of the Fifty-first Congress. To the country he offers no positive policy and makes no pledge He proposes to go into the next canvass merely "agin" the Republican policy. That is just the policy which the Anarchist proclaims when he asks the people to unite with him in destroying the existing social system. If the Hill advice could be carried out the policy of reciprocity would bo thrown away, the duty would bo restored to sugar, the revenues of the government would be so largo that there would be a surplus in the treasury, and all the evils of undervaluation of imported merchandise would be restored. The industries and enterprises of the country, which are prospering by adjusting themselves to the McKinley law, would bo thrown into confusion. Instead of having the silver product of the country issued as legale tender money upon a gold basis, the government would return to the policy of coining monthly between two and three million of silver legal-tender dollars. There is neither statesmanship nor good politics in the Hill proposition. TAYLOR'S HAT HONEY. When a man begins a communication with the assertion that the constitutional power of Congress "to coin money, regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin" is a declaration that the country "can havo no other but fiat money," as does Mr. H. W. Taylor in another column of this paper, it is a waste of time to argue with him. He may bo honest and bright in a certain way, but his mind is so constituted that it cannot grasp facts. "Fiat money" is money which has no intrinsic value. None was ever issued in this country. Actual fiat money would be pieces of paper upon which would be printed the words "this is five dollars." or any other number that it might please Congress to order to be printed on it. - Congress has no such power. The only meaning of "coin money" is to make it of the precious metals, and the only regulation of the value is to .make the intrinsic value of the metal in the coin bear a close relation to the market value of tho metal as bullion. Pieces ot paper upon which aro printed "this is ten dollars" are no more money than the cut of a horse upon a piece of paper is a horse.. All the

congresses in the world could not decreo that a picture of a horse is a real horse, but they can, just as essily, make such pictures horses as they can make worthless pieces of paper upon which are printed "five dollars" or "ten dollars" the money of commerce which is a medium of exchange and a measure of values when issued in limitless quantities, or, indeed,'-in any considerable quantities. A greenback is not fiat money, because it is redeemable in coin, and there is $100,000,000 in gold on deposit in the sub-treasuries to redeem all greenbacks which are presented. It is of very little consequence what Mr. H. W. Taylor denies or affirms about gold and greenbacks in 1864. Wheat did not go up to $3 a bushel in that year, but ranged from $1.72 to $2.75 in New York, according as the greenback was worth, CO of 35 cents in gold. At the same time that wheat was worth $2.75 a bushel in New York it was worth $75 a bushel in Richmond, Va. Why? Because the currency of the Confederacy had not one chance in a thousand of being redeemed, whilo the probability was that the promises-to-pay of the legaltender greenback would be redeemed in coin. Then it was clearly evident that the $750,000,000 of confederate paper in circulation was strictly fiat money, and if prices were doubled on tho greenback basis here, which stood a chance of redemption in 16G4, they were multiplied by fifty in the paper of the Confederacy. If hogs were worth $10 in Indiana in 1&G4, they were worth $500 in Virginia. In regard to gold having gone up to $1.85 in New York, Sept. 19, 1690. Mr. Taylor is wrong. On that date there was nothing of the sort Sept. 12, in the speculative markets in that city, the rates of discount ranged from 185 to 6 per cent, on call. This was because a large quantity of non-dividend paying railroad securities of little or no value fiat property were held by brokers as security for loans with which they were ; purchased. There was a scare over all sorts of securities, growing out of the Argentine slump. The brokers holding . 'these stocks as collaterals on call loans called upon those who had pledged them to redeem them or they would be sold, . In he scare of tho stock market those men 'who were caught offered the equivalent of 185 per cent, interest for loans on the depreciated collaterals, because they were of doubtful value. During tho same hours that the street rate on doubtful collaterals was 185, mercantile paper was being negotiated for from 7 to 9 per cent. Even in Wall street call loans fell from 185, early in the day, to 6 per cent, at the close. But it was notlapoa, gold that this interest' was demanded, bnt upon greenbacks, silver dollars and upon the present treasury notes. ,' Mr. Taylor is equally at fault about the Barings. Their trouble grow out of attempting to negotiate the millions of

bonds of various enterprises which the Argentine Republio bad indorsed. The Argentine Rcpnblic was sobering off from a great boom caused by an immense issue of paper which became fiat money because it became irredeemable, and' these securities had been issued to build railroads and develop the resources of the country, 'Tho Barings undertook to negotiate ttfeik; but were r aught with an immense quantity for which they had paid other people's money and on which they must pay the interest. It was not the gold market which brought ruin to that house, but the failure of cpterprises built on the depreciated paper-money basis to earn interest on their bonds. Mr. Taylor's proposition for tho government to issue Indiaua $150,000,000 of legal-tender fiat money on the lands of the State as security is a scheme not worth considering. No security can be available as the basis of papor money which cannot,; on demand, bo turned into the money of the world. That is not so good a scheme: as Peffer's, which is to loan fiat paper money to individuals on farms, which the government can take and sell ifi'themonoy is not paid back. Neither of them is so practicable as the scheme to furnish every citizen with a family a small printing-press, a lot of stereotype plates of bills, a bottlo of printer's ink and a roll of paper, to tho end that each may print for himself all the fiat money he needs to enable him to do business upon a cash basis. The Journal does not approve any scheme by which it is proposed that the government shall furnish money for all those who want it, but this seems the most direct, and it is .'respectfully commended to Mr. Taylor aud his co-workers in the cause of fiat money. In conclusion, no one need pay 8 per cent, on farm loans in Indiana, and if any one pays 20 per cent, it is tct becauso money is scarce, but because the borrower has not available property to offer as security or collaterals. As there is an ample supply of money, and the issue of fiat paper money would be disastrous to wage-earners, why not have the government furnish us collaterals rather than' irredeemable paper currency? . One of the Democrats who has been seated as Senator by the Democratic combine in New York owes his good luck to the blunder of a clerk. Of a decision which permits such blunders to disfranchise hundreds of voters, Wheeler II. Peckham, a Democratic judge of the Court of Appeals, said: Utterly to disfranebisa hundreds of innocent legal voters because the employes or messengers of some public officer made a mistake like the one in question soenis to me to work a hnrlesqne on the ballot act and its construction, and tends to bring the law itself into contempt. The construction of this aot by . the majority of the court is, as I believe, wholly unnecessary, and, 1 say it with great respect, unreasonable : - Mr. Charles Booth, after careful investigation of local returns, concludes that about one-sixteenth of the entiro population in England and Wales, or 1,837,933 persons, are receiving pauper relief In one . form or another. Of this number 82,573 were over sixty years of age, and G07.GG0 were over sixty-five years of age. As the total population over sixty-five years of ago was only 1,322,605, the proportion of paupers over that ago was 83.4 per cent, of tho whole number of inhabitants, In this country we roust fight against the social and economic conditions which produce this

enormous mass of poverty. The weapon with which to fight is protection for American industries and American wage-earners.

Governor Hill's valedictory, at Albany lays down the law for the Democratic, party in a very Arrogant and dictatorial fashion. He will find when he gets to Washington that his word is not law there, and more than likely old and experienced Democratic Senators like Morgan, Voorhoes, Gorman, Vest and others will resent the attempt of the new Senator from Now York to dictato the policy of the party. Bigger men than Governor Hill have had to readjust their ideas of themselves when they went to Washington and camo in contact with other men of national reputation. If hp assumes the role of a New York boss in Washington he will very likely get snubbed. During the eleven mouths of 1891, ending with November, the value of our exports of merchandise was $850,570,433 against $759,050,796 for the corresponding period of 1890. During the same period of 1891 we imported $758,570,153 worth of merchandise, against $702,505,395 in 1890. That is, we bought of the outside world, during the eleven months of 1890, $3,544,509 more than we sold it, while during the eleven months of 1891 we sold it $92,570,158 more than we bought of it, and our imports were $4,000,000 less than in 1890. Tho chango in our favor is over $90,000,000. It is said that in a recent interview with the Chilian minister he laid beforo Secretary Blaine, as occurrences which the State Department had never heard of, and which the administration should know about, circumstances which Min-, ister. Egan had made known to the department months since. One of these occurrences was the slaughter of forty young men by oneof Balmaceda's subordinates. ' The Congressicnalists were full of resentment because they thought that Minister Egan had not informed the administration of that fact, which the files of the department show that he did. Probably if Uncle Sam were asked which one of his relatives oonld oope with' the now Chilian war vessel, Capitan Prat, he would answer My Anne Onoxnah. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Fred Douglass's health is so poor that he is obliged to cancel lecture engagements. There Is none of the grande dame or the haughty heiress of a Vere de Vera abont Princess Victoria MayofTeck. She hat her mother's lino spirits and is lively, jolly and amiable. Anton Rubinstein, the Russian pianist and composer, has declined the "offer recently made him for a concert tour in America, and gives out that he baa ceased playing in pnblio. Mrs. Emma D. E. N. South worth will tarn aside from fiction next year to write "A Child's Life of Our Savior," a work which, as the author eays, "has lain near my heart for many ytsars." The story was related at the Whittier celebration that when the poet asfced a farmer to whom he had lent a volumo of "Plato" how he liked it. "First rate," said the farmer; "1 see he's got some of my ideas." Dr. Lyman Abbott's declaration that the Ten Commandments were Jewish and not Christian ordinances, and his proposition that they should be removed from our churches are apt to create a pretty lively sort of a row in religions circles. Will Carleton, does not look like the conventional idea of a poet. He is tall, broad-shouldered and ruddy-faced. Carleton works for money, with fame as a secondary consideration. He believes in getting as much for a poem or an article as It will bring a point on which he and his publisher have frequently difiered. The friends of Thomas Nelson Pago call him "doctor," but this title, be says, is misleading, for he is not versed im medical 'lore. He is a lawyer, and his doctor's decree was conferred on him by a Virginia college some years ago for legal attainments. Mr. Page has an excellent standing at the bar in the old commonwealth. . The women of Denmark are protesting over the fact that married women are not allowed to vote on the same footing as single women. Unmarried women over twonty-tive years of age who pay taxes havo municipal suffrage. Bat as soon as a women marries she gives np her vote, and her husband is the only one who has the privilege of oaeting a ballot. Tub spice ball ban come into favor again and has a place on tho writing table of some fashionable young women. For the edification of the girls the make-up of the ball is given. Select a perfectly sound, wellshaped apple and stick it full of cloves, put it on a pretty dish or plate and keep it on yonr desk until it ceases to be a delight. The spice preserves tho fruit and emits a fragrance that is very agreeable to some people. How many people are there (asks the Loudon correspondent of the (xiasgow Herald) who .were . aware nntil to-day that there is in existence a substance other than a jowel of the purest water, which is worth no less than sixty times its weight in pure goldt Yet in the cabinet of chemical elements which the late Prince Lucien Bonaparto baa bequeathed to the English nation there is a substance called germanium, which is reported to be of this fabulous value. A laughing jackass has been presented to Miss Farren as a souvenir of ber professional visit to tho Antipodes. The laughing jackass is a large-sized bird, romethmg like a parrot. This strange creature, which screeches rather than laughs, enjoya the ftrotectiou of the Legislature in some at east of the colonies, wbern it is made penal to shoot one. The reason is that the laughing jackass is the born foe of 4 snakes, of which so many deadly varieties abound in the bosh. Frederick Douglass has recently secured a place as clerk in the Agricultural Department for the daughter of bjs old master in the days of slavery. The lady was brought no in extreme luxury, but has for ten years experienced great privations; and when the case was presented to Secretary Rusk he appreciated its poetic and pathetio aspects. Though Mr. Douglass was once the chattel of this lady's father, and was actually sold at the block like an ox or mule, ha not only exerted himself in her behalf, but agreed not to reveal his own instrumentality in bar success. The facts came oat, however, in another way. . Be very careful of your health; it's worth your while to try; And eat and drink with caution and to keep Tour stocking dry; For though this Is a healthy town diseases lark about - ' ' And the awful gripU get you If you don't watch out ' Chicago Mau. Indiana Republicans Will He United. EL Louts Republic Albert W. Wishard. of Indianapolis, who is prominent in law and politics, is at the Southern, lie Is an industrious Republican not an office-seeker, bnt the backer of well-known . politicians. He arrived last night to attend to law business. He aaid to a reporter for the Republic that the Ilar-rison-Urrsbain trouble in Indiaua is aiout over, although at one time it threatened to be serious. "Indiana politics," said he. "do sot have a serious proa pee t for the Republicans. No .matter who may be the nominee, the liepublicans will be united."

RESETTING A BROKEN SECK. A Physician's Opportunity to Test the Belief that It Could Be Done. . New York Pun. A rare case of resetting a broken neck has come to light in Haydenville, an obscure little village in western Massachusetts. The patient, Michael Mahar, ayouug man of twenty-two. after a confinement of three months, is able to walk abont the village streets. While the case has been the marvel of the country physicians for some time, no account of the operation has been published. About dusk ooe Saturday evening three months ago. Dr. Hubert H. Flagg.of Northampton, Mass., which is the center of a group of villages, like Haydenville. while returning from a summons to a country house, noticed a wagon-load of young men turning into the road from a trough, and almost at the instant he caught sight of them their horse plunged forward with a start tbjit threw the rear seat from the wagon and toppled the two occupants of the seat over backward. One rolled into a ditch and was unhurt, bnt the other lay motionless in the road. Jumping from his carriage the Doctor knelt in the road beside the young man and tried to restore him to consciousness by the usual means of cold water and charing; but no effect was produced, and the fellow's face began to grow purple as though he were strangling. When the Doctor put his arm under the man's shoulder and raised him slightly, tho head fell over backward nntil it rested limp on the neck between the shoulders. At the siiht of that two of the fellow's comrado9, who were looking on helplessly but most anxiously, fainted. Dr. Flugg comprehended that the young' man bad struck on the back of his head and had his neck broken. The iniveraal maxim in the case of a broken neck is: "Make death as easy as possible." When a medical student in the University of Pennsylvania Dr. Flagg had thought that, if a physician could be called in time, it ought to be possible to set a broken neck as well as a dislocated shoulder or thigh, for it is rare that a broken neck is anything moro than a dislocated neck. Death in such cases is duo to the cuttingoffof circulation by pressure upon the spinal cord. The accident atl'orded the opportunity to test tho theory, and the idea of doing so ocenrred to Dr. Flagg tho moment ho 'saw what the tronble was. Without wasting an instant Dr. Flagg stepped back to the body, placed his knees firmly against the patient's shouldera and, took the head gently bnt firmly between his two hands. Then turning the head' from sido to side delicately, he gave a strong, steady pull. There was a sharp snap the bead was in its socket again. Respiration had become imperceptible before the head was snapped back into , its original position, but afterward. there was immediate relief, and a slight respiration was noticeable. The yonng man, whose nerves had not deserted him, rolled his ooat .np and placed it under young Mahar s neck, and forced some brandy down Mabar's throat That had a stimulating ellect, and bis pulse rose gradually from, eighteen beats a minute to abont thirtysix. They were half a mile from any house, and three miles from Mahar's home. The two fellows who had fainted regained their senses, and the Doctor sent them to tho nearest house for a mattress aud blankets, while he remained kneeling in the road during the twenty-five minutes that elapsed before the supplies arrived. In the meantime the patient's pnlse and bis respiration increased, and ho had occasional moments of consciousness. Witli difficulty he was placed upon the mattress and lifted to the wagon. A false move would have ended bis life in a twin kling. The horse was taken out of tho wagon, as a double precaution, and the three young men, aided by some volunteers, pulled the wagon after them three miles to the village, tho doctor holding the head in position. Stimulants aud watchfulness kept the sullcrer alive until h was placed on his bed at home. To add to the complications, it was discovered that not only had the neck been dislocated, or, as it is called, broken, but some of the delicato pieces of bone forming the casing for the spinal cord had been crushed, and the jagged edges could be felt at the back of the neck. When death is not practically instantaneous in such cases, it follows soon by strangulation, for the spinal cord become intlamed immediately, and, swelling against its casing, cuts oQ all circulation. That was dreaded, and the aim was to keep down the inllammation by drugs administered internally, but in a large measure by the constant application of hot cloths to the back of the neck. All that night the young man was worked over, and the task was most difficult, for tho pain made him writhe in his bed, and a false move might throw the head out of its socket. However, they succeeded in keeping the bead in place that night, and on the following morning an iron brace was made which fastened tho head on securely. From that time on the struggle wasonO of devotion and constant watchfulness. For more than throe weeks the bandages on the neck bad to be changed every ten minutes, night and day, to ward off inflammation. Every week young Mahar grew stronger, and a little bunch on the neck, like tho enlargement on welded iron, showed that the fractured ligaments and brokeu bone bad knit. After six weeks he was able to lie on tho pillow without tho brace during the day time, although it was always necessary to replace it when ho slept. Then he began to bo able to move his head from side to side, and after eight weeks it was possible for him to move it forward and backward, and Dr. Flagg began to hope that he might be able some time to go without any headbrace, in fact, that he would be as well as ever. Three weeks ago Mahar began to walk again. Lvery day his neck is getting stronger, and it is believed that it is only a question of . time when his remarkabio cure will be complete. Only two cases that approach Mahar's have been recorded. One was an experiment in this line at tho University of Pennsylvania more than ten years ago. It attracted a great deal of attention, but the cure was never perfect. The best known case is that of a brakeman on the New York Central railroad, who had his neek broken by a fall from the top of a freight car a dozen years ago. His neck was reset, but could never support his bead without the aid of an iron brace. That case attracted so much attention that tho brakeman made a anng fortune out of his broken neck by exhibiting himself as a curiosity WOilEN AT W A BASIL An Alomncs Gives Reasons Why the College Authorities bhould Establish an Annex.

To the Ertltor of the Indianapolis Journal: To admit, or not to admit, that is the question now agitating not the trnstces only, but all who wish the highest interests of Wabash College conserved. The trustees, who must officially decide this matter, seem not fully agreed among themselves as to its advisability. Some are utterly opposed to tho admission of women, presumably upon whatsoever conditions, but most likely becauso of prejudice against co-education, pure and simple. Some strongly advocate their immediate admission upon the same terms as young men. Others, whilo favorable to the scheme, are yet conservative enocgh to desire proper metes and bounds, and, upon certain conditions, plead for the doors to be opened.' That there is a very largo and respectable class of people who oppose coeducation upon good and sufficient grounds no one will deny. Their ideas are at least worthy of respect. But this opposition spends its force mainly against the constant and indiscriminate commingling of the sexes in the class recitations, the halls aud the grounds. Hut whatever objections may obtain against their admission based upon this practice the trustees aud patrons would doubtless be reconciled to what is known as the annex srctem. If this system ware adopted for Wabash the objectionable features of aimpl co-oducation would be avoided, while the best results from occasional meetings and greetings of students would be obtained. Ibis would be simply a female department cf the col'ege, under th amt general . management, aud r baring the prestige, the lunds aud th various advantages of the old and well-established institution. Aud yet there would bo distinctions with ditlerencea. Tho

ladies would have thoir dormitories and separate dining-rooms, under approved matrons to guard their special Interests. They would also have seperate claaa-rooms and literary societies. In short, the sexes wonld not need to meet except npon occasion. It is evident that one general library would suffice for both, and many lectures could bo heard In common. All could come together in public literary exhibitiona and on. commencement days. Hut the ladies would bo regarded as ladies and educated as euch. The God-given distinctions and peculiar needs of womanhood would be recognized and met appropriately, while their cod-created social qualities and meutal aptitudes would likewise find proper expression. To accomplish this plan would necessitate the erection of additional buildings, end the procuring of a larger teaching force. Evidently, these are the. conditions upon which some of the trustees earnestly advocate tbe admission of ladies at Wabash. This would call for au extra outlay of money not now .available. The funds heretofore given weio devoted to definite objects by the donors, and consequently must be untouched. The proper course, therefore, evidently, must be to let the facts and needs be known, aud. doubtless, friends will como ' to the rescue and the prospective plans for the annex would be made a reality. Of course, if the trustees vote not to admit ladies no such friends will be required ana no such funds needed. The probabilities are that ample means will be forthcoming for all necessaw Additions when once tho admission ot ladies to Wabash be conditioned upon anch terms. The plea for tho annex in preference to ordinary co education at this college is based upon the following considerations: Pi rat, it provides not only for the separate classification of women, but leaves theia free to be instructed in those studies especially adapted to feminine virtue and intellectual needs; second, it meets tho wishes of that considerable class of cautious parents who prefer to educate their daughters with associates of their own sex; third, it leaves untouched the old college curriculum of stndy no justly commended everywhere; fourth, it is a matter of economy for parents to send their sons and daughters to tho tauia locality, and a relief to know that brothers can exercise some oversight of sisters; fifth, it grants proper social privileges upon occasion, and that, too, with natures of klndre4 thought and feeling; six, it would greatly increase the patronage of the college. Such a scheme is not visionary, bnt practicable beyond a peradventure. It has been tested sufficiently at Harvard, Columbia, and In other colleges, both East and West, at least in some of its essential features. If the plan as Lere proposed merits any originality, so much tho better for the institution that adopts it. Let Wabash be in the van of American educational institutions, as it deserves lo be. t. D. r. Crawtordsvtllz, Ind., Jan. 1.;

A ttaste of public MONirr. An Arraignment of Government Methods la Slaking Improve menta. O cor its Y. Wisoer. in Engineering Magaslae. Congress has appropriated annually a large amount of money for the education and support of a corps of engineers to whom have been confided tho entire control of the improvement of rivers and harbors and the disbursements of the largo appropriations made for that purpose The failure of this corps to aocomplih what the pnblio has hoped for from tho means placed at their ditposal may to a certain extent arise from defective legislation, but the principal cause undoubtedly is to be foand in their methods of conducting work over which they have full control. The officers of tho corps admit that ti e works they havo designed and undertaken to construct, in a majority of cases, have failed to produce any beneficial results. At the same time they claim that their methods and plans have not been defective, and that the dilatory manner in which appropriations have been made by Congress basrendsred tho successful completion of the improvements impossible. It is tree that with insufficient funds for its rapid prosecution work becomes much more expensive, and in exposed localities is often subject to- great deterioration when left in an incomplete condition. At tho 6amo time a careful examination of the various enterprises that havo been undertaken by tho corps can bnt convince the unbiased investigator that with unlimited funds the results would have been the same. Tho army engineers aro well aware of this, and. while charging that Congress is responsible for their failures, they apparently are not anxious to be relievedof the evil of which they complain. - During the last session of Congress, when a bill granting 3,200,000 for the improvement of a certain harbor was being discussed by the Senate committee on commercefor which improvement the officer in local charge estimated that $2.arA000 conld economically be expended during the fiscal year tho engineer department requested that a clauso bo incoporated in tho bill limiting them to an expenditure not to exceed $1,000,000 per annum, fcuch action shows a want of confidence in their plans that on a private enterprise would cost the engineer his position, and indicates a questionable desire for an opportunity to shift responsibility in the can of failure. Appropriations amounting to millions have been expended in various harbors where the works, so far as completed, show no amelioration of the original condition, 'and what . is still worse indicate that the expenditure of any additional amounts under the same plan would prodnce no better results. The negative resnlt of tho harbor-works at Charleston. S. C, is typical of the condition ofallairsat most of the harbors on the South Atlantic, gulf and Pacitio coasts, where it has been attempted to improve the channel entrance. In the last annual report of the chief of engineers it is estimated that -o,in2,000 will bo required to complete the improvement in Charleston harbor in accordance with the plans adopted in IS 78. The estimated mat at that date was $1,800,000, and 2.2J3.50J has already been expended upon the work. According to the latest charts of tht. harbor the average depth of water on the bar is approximately the same as in 1878. iinoe jetties, however far completed, ahould produce the same ellect through the section of channel between them as when carried to any greater distance seaward, it is evident that to continue the work under the present plans will be a deliberate waste of publio f onds. Profits of the Louisiana Lottery. Jn3s Frank McOloln, In January Forum. The income and outgo of the lottery per annum are as follows: Face value of tickets, twelve drawings $29,000,000 Total of prites, twelve drawings.... 14,767,00 Remainder, representing gross prottla $13,232.R0O It is doubtless true that all tickets issued are not sold; but this does not afreet the dishonesty of the general rate. So, the unsold tickets are placed in tho wheel, with the sold, and tho company is tho beneficiary of the winnings npon them. The meaning of this is that the company would sell tickets to the value of 20u0,OX) and collect the same; generously rotund to a comparatively small number of winners less than SlS.nGO.tOi). and appropriate to themselves more than 813.000,000. In other words this company takes a trill less than 47 per cent, for themselves, a trilie mora than 53 per cent for the limited band of winners. This is as near to an appropriation of one-half as these men dared to venture. The daily drawings, the echemo which fleeces the miserably poor, are cat in a still more dishonest moid. And it is to individuals who have been exploiting the pnblle at such a rate that the proposed constitutional amendment proposes to leaye all discretion and control over tho regulation of tho plans of drawing and the manner of conducting the business. Th fechool-Hook Monopoly. Corydon Raptibllean. bchool-books in this State are furnished by a monopoly. Under the present system there can be no competition, and the publishers famish them only as they please. That is one reason why so many children are often unable to procure the necessary books. A Democratic Legislature created tbis monopoly; and still you frequently bear Democratio stump orators, with great vehemence, solemny declare that their partv ha ever been, aud always will be, unalterably opposed to any and all monopolies of every grade and character whatever. Fiaa-Sklniier Holman. New York in ruing Advertlwr. Mr. Holman will pleata observe that tho ojea of the Nation are upon him as he goes through his great act of removing the epidermis from a government nVa, with a view to securing tho hide and tallow.