Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1892 — Page 12

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1891.

THE SUNDAY JOURNAL SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1S02. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St.

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' All communication intended for publication in thit paper mutt, in order to receive attention, be accompamed by the name and addrets of the xcriter, THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: PARTS American Exchange in Paris, 30 BouleTard de Capucines. KEW YOBK Gilsey Ilouse and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A-1. Kemble, 3733 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCTNNATI-J. It. Hawley & Co., 151 Viae street LOUISVILLE C. T. Drering, norUnvest corner Third and Jefferson streets. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern IloteL WASHINGTON, D. C.-Biggs House and Ebbitt House. SIXTEEN PAGES The Sunday Journal has double the circulation of any Sunday paper La Indiana. Trice five cents. We were told at the begin ing of this strike that there was to be no violence. A strike without violence is like an arrow without a bow. If there is not enough respect In this country for representatives of tho law that is largely their own fault. They are too often demagogues. It is well to note that tho riots in Europe of late have not been in tho republic of France, whero riots were tho order of the day under the regime of kins. ' The present condition of affairs in this city is the result of the handiwork of certain persons who have been spelling reform in f nll-faco typo with a capital "R." The street-car strike has got way beyond tho original grounds of controversy. It is no longer a question of tho rights of tho strikers, but the rights of the public and tho enforcement of law. A gentleman of this city who was in Cleveland during the week says he was asked by two bank officials, "What is the matter with Indianapolis? Is not your city government ablo to p;otect property! The conduct of tho po!ico officials and patrolmen yesterday was worthy of all commendation. As a rule, they exhibited both courage and discretion, and in times of public peril tho latter is fully as essential a qualification as tho former. . TriE ocean greyhounds of Great Britain and Germany are competing to make the shortest ocean passage, but when the architects who have built our naval ships tako a hand the shortest passage will be made by a ship carrying the Btara and stripes. The second lecture of Professor Ross contained an amount of accurate information upon the subject of bimetallism which it would take the individual meeker of knowledge on the topic weeks to obtain, even if he were given a whole library on the subject. Some of our policemen aro too fat for the position. They may be qualified in other ways, but they carry too much avoirdupois to be activo and efficient in an emergency. A policeman should not waddle when ho walks nor loso his wind in running half a square. ' A writer in tho Atlantic Monthly says that the pessimist "is a man who lias embarked on tho wide sea of intellectual discovery and has found that for him it is a barren sea, blank, desolate." This is less forlorn than might have been thought, sinco many have a confirmed conviction that the pessimist is an all-round dyspeptic. It is a remarkable and an altogether creditable fact that when there is starvation or distress in any part of tho world, however remote, the United States is appealed to first for succor. Great Britain has moro wealth per capita, but raroly is money sought there for the starving. In fact, she has permitted the people of this country to relievo Ireland's need in several instances. Tns teachers of tho publis schools of Baltimore united in a memorial to the Maryland Legislature urging tho passage of a bill to imposo a licenso of $250 on dealers in cigarettes. Tho teachers say that "smoking cigarettes causes boys to become nervous, dwarfs their intellect, poisons their lungs and blood, and unfit3 them for their daily duties in tho school-room." They say tobacco chewing is injurious, but cigarette-smoking much more so, especially on the young. In 1800 in New York there were 72.65 patrolmen to each square mile of territory, 9.03 in Chicago, 11.01 in Philadelphia, 34.01 in Brooklyn, 8.72 in St. Louis and 48.41 in Boston. In New York tho number of arrests made to each patrolman in the year was 25.53, 27.37 in Chi cago, 35.00 in Philadelphia. 31.53 in Brooklyn, 32.03 in St. Louis and 43.41 in Boston. When tho number of merchant police and privato detectives aro added to tho forco it will be seen that the necessity of watching people is very expensive. The Board of Public Works and city attorney are preparing a revised city franchise for tho Indianapolis & Broad Ripple Rapid-transit Compauy. Tho Journal believes that tho company .liAnil Via rtirnn a r t m nnil VA4finnla

franchise, one under which it can live alongside of the Citizens' company until that corporation's charter expires, when both can bo treated alike, and by this it docs not taean that the franchise should bo given away. That this city stands in immcuiato need of street-railroad competition is a proposition that does not admit of argument, and in this franchise competition for all time should bo assured. It should contain a clause forfeiting it tho moment tho company either absorbs, is absorbed by, or consolidated with any other corporation owning or operating street-railroad Jines in this city. Indianapolis has had all the experience her people want with tho monopoly principle in street-railroad affairs.

THE LAW MU3T BE ENFORCED. To-day is a good time for citizens of Indianapolis to seriously and as dispassionately a3 possible consider tho critical situation in which the community finds itself. It is profitless to discuss, at thi3 stage of proceeding, the question of responsibility for .the present state of affairs. A collision which is likely to bo followed by loss of life has already occurred, and the city authorities are resisted by crowds of men who are acting outside the law. It is a situation in which tho business interests and the comfort and convenience of the entire community, backed by tho law, are cn one side, while the grievances of the employes of tho strcct-car company, backed by an organized force, arc on tho other side. Briefly stated, the opposing forces, as they stand to-day, represent law and order against lawlessness and disorder. Tho question now at issue is whether the law shall bo enforced and tho legal rights of persons and property protected, or whetherall rights and all interests shall be subject to mob law. For it is useless to deny that, so far as tho street-railroad is concerned, the city is under mob law. This is not a pleasant admission nor a pleasant phiaso to use, but it is a fact. Any crowd or assemblage of men operating in opposition to, or outside of, the law, is a mob' no matter what its objects or methods are. The law is a rule of action, and all methods of procedure not prescribed or authorized by it aro illegal. The assumption that any individual, or corporation, or body, or class of men can have any rights above or outside of the law is fallacious and dangerous. The Journal has stated before, and it takes occasion to repeat, that the streetrailroad company is as much entitled to the protection of tho law in tho operation of its business as any othor concern in the city. If any difference exists, it has a better claim to legal protection, because it is a common carrier and is engaged in tho service of the public. Tho Journal docs not pretend to assume that the striking employes of the company wcro in the wrong in quitting its employ. It is true, in our belief, that Mr. Frenzol violated tho spirit of the finding of tho board of arbitration, but the present situation has got beyond the point where the justice or injustice of tho positions assumed by the company or tho men are the only questions to be considered by the public. It is not possible for tho people of the city to arbitrate this matter, nor is it possible for the entire community to deprive thomselvcs longer of the right to street-car transportation because tho company and tho men employed by it have been unable to agree. The company has men who aro willing to work on its terms, and these men are citizens, have the samo right to the protection of tho police and all other proper authority in tho peaceful prosecution of their work as have all other citizens, no matter where their sympathies may rest 'or what their opinion of the matters in controversy. Some of these have been desperately assaulted ono or moro of them perhaps killed or fatally injured ' and all because of the forciblo resistance offered the efforts of tho street-car company to run its cars. As a mere matter of right, the company is clearly entitled to transact its business with tho assistance of any ono who may bo willing to work for it. The strikers must not say that becanse they cannot accept tho terms offered by Mr. Frenzel the cntiro public shall suffer, much less must they interposo violencb and brute force to carry their point. In doing this they put themselves clearly outside tho law, and this done, every legal forco must, under our form of government, be vigorously and unsparingly employed to soo that tho rights of tho general public shall not bo trampled under foot and thrust aside to secure what may bo thought to bo tho rights of cither Mr. Frenzel or the three hundred men lately in his employ. If the strikers will but stop to think wo believe they will agreo in this view. A repetition of the scenes enacted yesterday should not be attempted by them, and must not bo per-' mitted by tho authorities, however heroic and vigorous may be tho measures necessary to prevent it. AN 13DECE3T PSOTOSITIOff. A bill has been presented in the House of Representatives which proposes to confer honorable discharges upon those deserters who accepted tho amnesty offered by President Johnson by reporting to tho nearest military authorities after the war of tho rebellion was over. These men deserted during tho period of actual hostilities and returned from Canada and their other hiding places after tho war was over, on the promise of having tho charge of desertion removed. In other words, they were pardoned for tho crimo to which they practically pleaded guilty when they came back and applied for pardon. Why should they now bo given honorablo discharges, which aro precious to tho men who earned them and a priceless heritage to their posterity! To do so will be to place the stigma of doubt upon the discharges granted to 2,500,000 men who honorably served in tho Union army. At the close of the war the charge of desertion stood against 100,045 names on tho muster-rolls. Many of these charges were mistakes duo to failure to mako proper records and reports, and were corrected by hundreds upon final muster out or soon after. Nevertheless

tho last official reports make the number of deserters larger than that of those who were Killed in battle and died of wounds. Many of these deserters were bounty-jumpers and scoundrels, whilo many of them would never havo deserted had not they been incited to it whilo home on furloughs by copperheads who fought the Union cause more effectually in Indiana and other States of the North than they would havo dono' if ; they had carried muskets in the confederate army. Many deserters were young men who belonged to copperhead families, and were induced to desert when at home on furloughs. They skulked about the country and went to Canada by thousands. Several thousand responded to the Johnson offer of amnesty, and now it is proposed to give them the samo parchment discharge which was given to veterans upon tho muster-out of their regiments at the closo of the war. The proposition isan insult to every honorably discharged man. Looking over the Congressional Eecord ono cannot fail to notice that there are many bills presented to "correct the military record'7 of men whose names were on muster-rolls during tho late war. Every few days Indiana members present such measures, and several havo done so in considerable numbers the present session. How many of these men for whom these favors are asked have a right to have a record corrected! Is it not a fair assumption that tho man who has permitted the charge of desor-i tion to stand against his name twenty -j fivo years without protest was a deserter, and would havo permitted tho charge to stand had its removal not been necessary to secure a pension! The record in the case of the amnestied deserters and of those who havo waited until the charges cannot bo properly investi

gated before making application should be permitted to stand. ' Justice to tho honorably discharged demands this, and tho proper punishment of those who de-. serted their ling and comrades requires it. H0X0B TO THE MULE. Amid this babel of tongues and confusion of rights growing out of the street-car strike, the mule stands forth pre-eminent for his consistent and dignified courso and his devotion to principle and duty. Some, notably the Mayor, have failed in their duty, while others havo violated law, trampled on privato rights or disregarded those of the public. Tho mule has not dono any of these things nor anything else inconsistent with the character of a loyal and reliable servant of tho public. When tho mule is called on to perform his duty ho does not say "it is no part of the duty,of a mule to operato tho street cars." Neither does ho respond to calls for assistance by reiterating that ho has "nothing to say." He does his duty and lets consequences . tako care of themselves. Ho has no prejudices, no politics, no partisan bias, no predilection for one thing more than another, unless it be a bunch of hay, He is a public servant, without fear and without reproach. Ho takes the good that fate sends him, and if evil comes ho takes that. In no way responsible for the strike,' he was in a position to enjoy the brief period of gentlemanly leisure which it brought him, the first green oasis, perhaps, in a lifo of hopeless drudgery. When he heard the president of the street railroad talk about turning tho mules out to pasture ho sadly shook his head and murmured it was too good to bo true. When, day after day, he pondered 'over the Mayor's assertion that it was no part of the city's duty to operato street cars, he chuckled and said, "Right, you are, Mr, Mayor, and I am with you." ' When he heard tho reiterated statement of the superintendent of police that he had "nothing to say," he cocked his eye and said, "Stick to it, Captain, mum's the word." The mule is human enough to be selfish, and to wish to enjoy a sinocure as long as possible, yet all the time, deep down in his heart, there was a surviving sentiment of loyalty to tho public and a determination to respond promptly to the first call upon him to do his duty. In effect he said to tho city authorities all tho time, "I am ready to move when you are," In fact, ho was ready to movo long before the 'city authorities were. It did not tako him a week to make up his mind. In short, the mulo has pursued a consistent and dignified course, and has been loyal to duty and principle from the beginning of the trouble to the present time. He is about the only participant in the affair that is likely to come out of it wifh any credit. 'k ! THE EUIUKE OF ELECTRICITY, If the most experienced observers of electrical phenomena are not greatly mistaken the alphabet of electricity as a useful agent to man has not yet been learned. Years ago it was imagined that the usefulness of electricity had been fully developed when it was successfully applied to the telegraph, but since the world became accustomed to that manifestation of tho application of electricity the telephone, the electric light and the electric motor have been utilized. Professor Crookes, lately president of the chemical eection of tho British Association, has an article in the Fortnightly Review in which he suggests moro striking possibilities for electricity. He suggests that it may be proved of use in agriculture, experiments having shown that electrical currents give increased vigor to plant life, and tend to destroy parasites. Cheaper means of producing electrical energy must be discovered before its full influenco upon plant life can bo ascertained, but if-it could but be applied to kill parasites the results of itself would bo beyond calculation. The parasite is a greater danger than weather to all plant life. Attention is called to the fact that the sun pours every year upori the earth's surface a total of 800,000 horse-power of vital force, of which only 3,200 horsepower is utilized, leaving 700,000 horsepower that is wasted. Will it ever come about that this enormous energy will be utilized? Five hundred years ago would such a conception have been regarded as more visionary than the telegraph! The effectiveness of electricity as a sanitary agent in the purification of sew

age and , waste Arater is an admitted fact. The only bar to its usefulness, as in other directions, is its costliness.

Water mJght bo sterilized by electricity if it were sattlcd that the destruction of organisms in water would be beneficial. -The Professor imagines that it is possible for the practical electrician to con trol the weather by preventing thunderstorms and tornadoes. A storm is followed by a fall In temperature, bringing more rain than is needed. The writer thinks it will bo possible to disperse these accumulations of electrical energy in a word, to im prove nature. The Professor bclioves, from the experiments which have been made, that peoplo a mile apart, with electrical machines properly attuned, may soon bo telegraphing each other without wires. Unlike a ray of light, an electrical vibration of a yard or moro in length will go throngh a wall or a dense fog. He believes that conversation could be transmitted between persons having a code, by means of these vibrations, as successfully as sounds and signs are transmitted by wire. These suggestions and half predictions will strike many who have not considered tho possibilities of electricity as nonsensical, but in the minds of scientific experts many of them are probabilities rather than possibilities. THE FAMILY BLACK SHEEP. . Oliver Curtis Perry, who made a bold "attempt to rob an express car, Sunday morning, on the New York Central railway, is a novelty in crime. Less than twenty-seven years of age, ho has pursued crime with such assiduity that he may be said to have the experience of a life-time. He was born in Amsterdam, N. Y., of respectable American parents. Indeed, both father and mother are, and always have been, people of correct lives, and there is no record of moral irregularity in his more remote ancestors. He was born and spent his early years in a yillago in the midst of a farming community, withdrawn from all tho vicious associations which are found in largo cities. Like other children, he went to the publio schools, which, in such communities, are free from baleful influences. With such an ancestry, and in the midst of such associations, Perry, at a very early age, showed an utter lack of moral nature. At the age of fourteen he committed a burglary and was sent to the reformatory, where he was so incorrigible that tho doors of tho penitentiary were opened to him. Prison lifo did not tame him. Crime seemed to be his pur -pose; for when he was rcleasod he went to live with an undo in Minnesota, whoso, storo ho burglarized before he had lived with him a month. After three years in prison be became a cowboy in tho Northwest, and that chapter of his experience was closed by his being shot in a brawl. Whilo in a hospital in Montana, he shot and killed another inmate. Thenco he fled to the Southwest, where ho tramped for a season, to return to the vicinity of his birth and childhood to engage in two train robberies. Those who make a study of criminology havo away of tracing such cases to heredity. They would have said of this case that among his ancestors there were criminals, and after a lapso of years tho propensity for crime bursts out with uncontrollable forco in Oliver Curtis. It is, in fact, a repetition, in another kind, of what appeared in Aaron Burr, tho grandson of Justin Edwards, the. father of New England theology. If this is the case, it seems that when a man or woman of criminal propensities once gets into an ancestry, all succeeding generations are in danger of an outbreak. In the case of Perry and the others cited, it appears that the propensity not only breaks out, but appears in a form which seems tho accumulation of all the waywardness and wickedness which were hidden in successive generations of people having simply the average amount of that tendency to ordinary transgression which tho regulation theology assigns to the whole human race. Can the sociologists tell us how families can escape now and then a black sheep like Oliver Curtis Perry? If thero is no escape, how far is Oliver Curtis responsible? TnERE is a bill pending in. Congress to provide for a thorough exploration of the interior of Alaska which is, in some respects, as unknown as the darkest parts of "Africa. Nearly a quarter of a century has elapsed sinco the acquisition of Alaska by tho United States, yet nothing, comparatively, is known of the interior of that vast region or its possiblo resources or inhabitants. Alaska contains about 600,000 square miles of territory, more than fifteen times the area of Indiana, and we know very little about any part of it, except tho edges and some of the water-courses. As a matter of business it would seem that the government ought to make a thorough exploration of the territory. The Japauese consul in New York says that fifteen or twenty modern cotton-mills havo been recently erected in Japan, and that the supply of raw cotton is obtained chiefly from India. This may be tho beginning of a new market for American cotton, which is suffering sadly now from depression of prices. This is a strong argument in favor of the construction of the Nicaragua canal, by which the water ronto between our cotton States and China and Japan would be greatly shortened and freights correspondingly lessened. If tho manufacture of cotton is onco established in Japan and China it will open an immense market for American cotton. Persons who aro engaged in tho enforcement of the compulsory-education law in Chicago find a great many children of school-age employed in factories. In most of tho cases the child has lost a father or mother and is working to help support the family. One boy of eleven years was earning $2.50 a week, which was all that a family of six had to live on. Tho father was dead and tho mother an invalid. Tho little fellow begged piteously to bo allowed to continue at work and promised to attend school ht night, which he was finally given permission to do. Another boy of eleven years supported a family of eight on

2.50 a week, of which $3 a month went for rent. Such cases, which are numerous, appeal very strongly to sympathy, and it seems to be the duty of tho State to interfere for tho protection of the children. But, on the other hand, there is the family to bo supported, and if a boy of that age is willing to work for the support of a sick mother and his brothers and sisters, it may bo questioned whether he is not getting an education as valuable as any tho State can give him. It is pretty hard, too, to make a boy who works hard all day promise to go to school at night when ho needs sleep. " JonN D. Rockefeller's recent gift of $1,000,000 to the University of Chicago is the third he has made to that institution, making altogether $2,600,000. His last gift was made "as a special thank offering to Almighty God for returning health." Mr. Rockefeller is a member of the Baptist Church, and is said to know the Bible almost by heart He is fond of theological discussions with his intimate friends. His privato charities

are said to be many and large. The only vice ho has is that he is immensely wealthy, and. as he dispenses his wealth very liberally, perhaps that ought to be forgiven. - In another part of this issue of the Journal will be found two communica tions taking exception to some of Colonel Ingersoirs sweeping statements regarding Shakspcare. They indicate either that Colonel Ingersoll's information concerning the poet's ancestry and family is very imperfect, or else that his use of it is very inaccurate. The best testimony against the practice of trading in "wind" wheat, etc., is the statement of twenty-five of the largest firms on the Chicago Board of Trade that the business as now carried on had become "degrading, if not dangerous." BUBBLES IN TUB A1K. Indeed lie Is Not. Watts I can't see why you put such great confidence in Mr. Grover Cleveland's opinions. Totts My dear sir, Mr. Cleveland's opinions axe opinions of no light weight. Not Angelic. "Grogan's ould worn an," said Mr. Hcgan, 'is th' kind of woman thot dnrives a mon to dhrlnk th kind o whisky thot dartres a mon to go home an dhrlve his family oat the house, sho Is." Thought They Were "Growlers. Hungry niggins The guv'ment, I see, has allowed a rebate of $1,711,061 on tin cans fer exports. ' Weary Watkins Tin cans for ex-sports! Ain't we mixed up in that deal somehow! He Was No Society Journal. Weary Watkins Boss, can't you gimme a dime! Me room rent's doo an' I can't stay no longer. - Mr. Gotrox My friend, I really can see no reason why I should give currency to an idle, discredited roomer. Pleasant for the Prisoner. Western Sheriff Bill, just read that there offer of a reward for this cuss, an' see if it says, "dead or alive." Deputy Why! " 'Cause if it does, we can send hlin C. O. D. If it don't, we'll hev to pay railroad fare on 'im." BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT. The eldest daughter of Boulangeris engaged to be married soon. 8 he lives with her mother in Versailles. The youngest daughter has been the wife of Captain Driant for several years, and is with her husband in Tunis. Bauoness Burdett-Coutts clings to the old-fashioned idea that black is an nnlucky color to wear at a wedding. Her favorite wedding-gown is a bright sapphire blue velvet, with a wonderful mixture of feathers and fur as headgear. Tennyson is a great reader of novels, and so absorbed does ha become in such literature at night, sometimes, that it is bard to persuade him to go to bed. Like many less distinguished people who indulge in the practice, he rises late. George Lewis, who seems to have the cream of the "law business," as we call it, of London, paid Sir Morell Mackenzie one of tho very last fees that eminent throat specialist received. It was $500 for the simple surgical operation of the removal of the uvula. General Nelson A. Miles should, in the regular order of promotion, become the general commanding tho United States army, two years hence. In that case, he will be the first man since Gen. Wintield Scott, not graduated from West Point, to hold that place. It is said that the aged daughter of John Brown, "of Ossawatomie,"is now destitute and helpless, and the colored people of the United States owe it to themselves to provide for her relief. Their debt to the memory of their dead friend is one that can never be overpaid. So poor was Dr. Mackenzie, when he started his dispensary in London, that, after prescribing for the patients in one room, be used to retire into another, whero with bis own hands he dispensed the medicines he bad ordered, taking care in handing out the bottles that bis face should not bo seen. Mas. Mary A. Livermore says that "the contagion of a good life is ten thousand times more contagious than that of an evil life." Shaksneare expressed a different opinion on that subject when he wrote: "Bow far that little candle sheds its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world." An admiring "Fo'castle Jack" onoe sent Mr. Spurgeon a parrot, and, what is worse, a very profane parrot. For some months the gifted minister kept the wicked bird, which, bo said, seemed to sympathize with him when be nut bis pen into tho mucilagepot. But at last be had to send him away, more in sorrow than in anger. It is a fact of curious interest that William P. Ellison, who was one of the most active promoters of the Missouri Pacific railway, tho first road built west of the Mississippi, did not himself take a ride on a railroad train until one day last week, when bo journeyed from the country Missouri town, where ho lives, into St Louis. Vassar has a pin-money fund upon which bxisht but impecunious girls may draw for lectures, concerts, operas and field sports. Tho Pin money was donated by some wealthy New Yorkers who were aware of the fact that many young women are working their way through college with never a cent to snare for the play which should go to enliven all toil. Sin Morkll Mackenzie wore a small ncarf-pin which Queen Victoria once presented to the Emperor Frederick, in memory of her jubilee celebration. After the uufortunato Kaiser died, it was given by the Empress to the physician who bad been so devoted to her husband. The pin is of diamonds, forming a "0." and surmounted by a crown. Sir Morell valued it highly. Bourke Cockkan is one of the most notable, physically as well as Intellectually, of tho prominent Tammany leaders. Particularly is he . remarkable for the size of bis bead, which, though set on a pair of broad shoulders, is so iarge as to attract immediate attention. Somebody oncecalled him a "leonine" man. and the epithet is an apt one. though Mr. Cockran knows more about Tammany tigers than be does about lions. His rise from a humble position in a dry-aocd storo to a place at the bar which enables him to exact feca that aro in them

selves small fortunes is as interesting as Is his political power as an illustrative example of what a young man of pnsh can do with opportunity, which. as Sir. IiicalJs ays in his lately current pcam, is ".master of human destinies." One man in his time plays many parts. But a philosopher is not always snob. Voltaire took a freak one morning to ilavor his coffee with rose water; spasms ensuing, be called lustily on bis house-keeper to nave bis life; and finally, at eighty-four, shortened his life ten years by drinking fifteen cups of co Ilea in one night, while toiling on the Academy dictionary which be ha just originated. Another lover of the curious has discovered that Thursday played a great part in the life of the late Khtdivc. He wai born on a Thursday, according to this authority, ascended the throne on a Thursday, entered Cairo, after the revolt of Arabi, oa a Thursday, and died on a Thursday. Finally, his seal ring wis also broken and destroyed on Tnatsday, Jan. 21, in the presence of Abbas II and his Ministers. In an interesting discussion on kleptomania In fashionable circles, Mr. Henry Laboucbere reveals the fact that be baa been assured by one of them that it is the commonest thing in the world for woll-bred wornen to rob one another. Gloves, scraps of lace, fans, handkerchiefs, are regarded as common property, and it is never considered quite safe to leave purse or stray money about in bedrooms to which "dear friends' have access. This is all inexpressibly sad. The American girls who were stricken with admiration of Prince George of Greece when he was over here, will be glad to learn that ho has received a very, interesting present from the Czar. It consists of the stick with which Prince George struck the crazy Japanese policeman who attempted to assassinate his cousin, the Czarewitch. and it has been incased in gold. The imperial crown and these words, "To Prince George for Valor," has been engraved upon it.

BEECHER AND STURGEON. A Comparison and Estimate of the Two Great Preachers by Rot. J. M. Hockley. New York Christian Advocate. Several writers' are apeaking of Mr. Spurgeon as the Beecher of London. This is to use words without discrimination, if anything more be meant than that the two were respectively the most conspicuous preachers of their generation in Kugland and the United States. In most other respects between Mr. Spurgeon and Henry Ward Beceher the aiiierence was so great as to form a contrast. Mr. Beecner was a genius; Mr. Spurgeon a man of immense talent. As a German says: "The imagination of talent reproduces the stated fact; the inspiration of genius makes it anew. The first disengages or repeats, the second invents or creates. " Beecher was almost destitute of verbal memory; Spurgeon a phenomenon of precision, quickness and retentiveness therein. As an organizer, Beecher was without marked ability. Spurgeon lacked but little of having a "genius , for government'' and system. The ono. undentood human nature in general, but was easily duped; tho other had an almost intuitive perception of character, of fitness or unlitness for a particular use. The great preacher of America was unpractical and dreamy; the Englishman had a sturdy common senso which never failed. Beecher was a man of moods, worked when he felt like it, and inclined to procrastinate; Spurgeon was as industrious as a mechanic paid by the piece, and punctual to the minute. The paster of Plymouth Church preached, wrote and lectured on many themes not closely related, the preacher of the Metropolitan Tabernacle was primarily a man of one book: and one work. The former received immense sums for lecturing: tho latter, after his early yoars. declined to lecture. Beecher attached less importance to tho letter of tho liible, accepting it in general; ho conceived his own ideas, giving to them two elements which mark genius, "novelty and grandeur," using the Scriptures as far as they would illustrate his conceptions. All Spurgeon's sermona were arawn directly from the Bible: hence, where Beecher was often vagne, though splendid as tho Milky Way, and. to the ordinary mind, when diflerent sermons were compared, soemcd somewhat contradictory, Mr. Spurgeon was positive. Though Universalists, Swedenborgians end Spiritualists claimed Beecher, and Arminians and Calvinista quoted him against each other, none ever doubted as to what Spurgeon held, or accused him' of self-contradiction. Mr. Beechermade radical changes in bis theology; Mr. Spurgeon none. The one would assist the agnostic Frothingbam or theUniversalistChapin in religion services; the other recognized nom as Christians who. in h's opinion, denied the essential doctrines of the gospel. But the greatest p unt of ditlerenco was in the method of exerting power overmen by the ministry. Beecher delivered his diversified, inspiring, stimnlating, elevating orations on religion and morals, leaving the countless germs which they contained to fructify in the minds and hearts of his hearers as they might. Spurgeon was intent upon the immediate conversion, public confession, baptism and incorporation with the church and its activities of all to whom he preached. Beecher was an orator of the present age, molded by it and molding it. While "talent aims at a point which appears diflicnlt to reach, genius aims at a point which no one perceives." Spurgeon was a determined assailant of the world, tho iltsh and the devil, using the sword of the spirit as be found it to smite the enemies of God, hip and thigh, and the consolations of the word "to bind up the broken hearted." Beecher was unique in qualities and action. Spurgeon had the qualities of ordinary men in large measure, a sustained capacity of work in methodical forms which, with a concentration of all upon one work and its immediate branches, made him unique in achievements. No man can imitate Henry Ward Beecher. With the exception of humor, a purely natural gift, any minister may find much in the spirit ana pulpit and pastoral methods of Spurgeon to imitate; for though talent can never imitate genius, the achievements of men of the greatest talcut may furnish instruction and enlargement to great or small. The Domestic Problem from the Girls' Side Kew York Evening Tost. Some light on the preference of a great number of working girls for factory labor instead of domestic service may bo gained from a discussion of the subject 'n a working girls' clnb. One of the girls thought the tirstdrawbacktodomesticserrico is lack of independence. One afternoon in a week and every other Suuday was all the leisure that a maid could expect, while in a factory or shop, though the work might be harder and the chances of steady employment less, her time after her day's labor was her own to spend in rest, pleasure or study. Another advantage of lactory life was accountability to ono Eerson only, and systematic work. In the ousebold she would be at the command of perhaps three or four, and be obliged to go from her bread-baking to wait on the door, and from the ironing to the dinner getting, leaving work of one kind half finished to begin some other. This, it is claimed, was wearing to mind and temper. Other disadvantages on the domestic side were the nodal ditlerenco that must bo continually felt, and the contrasts on the daily lives of the servant and her mistress. In a factory it was claimed that the yiung girl feels herself a part of the world of work without these sharp contrasts. One girl believed that factory girls mad better wives, "as thev had never lived on sirloin beef." and didn't compare their homes with palaces that they had lived in. A Kirl who favored domestic service thought that no woman who livod in her own home, and was the right kind of daughter and sister, had all her own time and was perfectly Independent. Sho believed that a girl with firmness need look: to but ono head in the household, and that by planning wisely the number of interruptions that interfered with completed work could be greatly reduced. More money could also be 6ttved than in occupations where low wages were paid, the expenso for clothing was not ns great, and the employment healthful. It was in tho simplo household where not more than one or two servants are kept that these girls believed there was tho most satisfactory life for the domestic. When a vote was takeu, a majority declared in favor of doniestio service for those who bad no homes or whose homes were not satisfactory. Alarming Diaft on the Gold Supply. Ys i:e curd. It is rumori'd that !r. Kreley is to start a branch of his gold-cure industry in Ken- . tucky. Can tho world's gold e up ply stand auch a drain!

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