Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1892 — Page 4

THE INDIAN A FOL1S JOURNAL, "VDNESDAY, MAECH 9, 1892.

THE DAILY JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9. 1S03.

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AU eemtnunirationn Intended fr publication in this paper tttust, in order toreente attention, be aetomjm n t td by the name and addrets of the icriter, TIIK INDIANAPOLIS JOUIlNAIt Can le found at the following places: PA It IS American Exchange In Pails, 30 Boulevard tie Canuclnea. KEW TOBK-CUsey Hou? and TOndsor note! PIIILADZXmiA A. pTKembia, 3735 Lancaster avenue. CHICAGO IV.mer House. CINCIXNATI-J. XL Hawley & Co., 154 Tine street. LO V I RYILLE C. T. Tx-erinR northwest comer TLLvd aud JeCerson streets. . 6T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and uth-rn HuteL WASHINGTON", D. C IUggs nous and Ebbltt Jiouwe. SIXTEEN PAGES The wigwam for tho convention at Chicago is being planned to hold 18,000 Democrats, bnt its walls will have to bo extra strong if it holds them when tho Inovitablo row breaks out. Now that tho Democratic party Is lure to go on record in Congress in favor 3f the Bland bill scnaiblo Democrats in the East aro writing against New York, New Jersey and Connecticut tho words, "probably Republican." Br way of warning tho Journal calls tho attention of tho Sentinel to tho roxnark of that all-round Cleveland champion, Colonel Morrison, of Illinois, to the effect that Hill is gaining, and that Mr. Cleveland's friends will support him if nominated. If the reports concerning the discovery of a zinc mino in Carroll county are verified, it will prove a valuable acquisition to the varied resources of Indiana. Thero ar,o few such mines in tho world, and they aro ruoro valuable than most other mines in the country. TriE fraudulent census of New York now being taken under Tammany auspices is to bo made the basis of a reapportionment for the State Legislature which will give tho Democracy a safe and permanent majority. The scheme is one of the most outrageous political frauds ever attempted. TriE pressure was too strong for statesman By num. Only a little whilo ago he was recommending that the silver issue be smothered at present for the good of the party, but when the time came to voio he did not dare attempt tho (mothering act. It is no surprise, however, to find that Bynumhas not tho courago of his convictions. The latest story of friends who are closo to Isaac Pusey Gray is that he will allow his namo to be used only as a candidate for tho first place on the presidential ticket. Can it really be that Isaac is so deficient in a sense of humor that ho has taken the newspaper jokes In earnest and actually believes himself to bo "some good Western manP Those Democratic newspapers which havo been assuring the country that tho tariff was to be tho sole issue of the coming campaign evidently did not tako liifiicient account of the fact that froelilver Crisp and not free-trade Mills is t the fore. The wild and woolly majority got entirely beyond control of the outside statesmen party managers. Tnn American Wool Reporter, of Boston, which is not in full sympathy with the McKinley law, asserts that Bradford, England, worsted manufacturers have tried to meet the increased duties on their goods by depreciating their quality, and in consequence clothiers In this country aro manifesting a preference for durablo American fabrics. Senator Stanford, of California, has disposed of the chatter connecting him with the presidential candidacy of tho People's party by declaring that ho is a Republican, ond as such ho would accept the party nomination if tendered him. Uo has further expressed the opinion that General Harrison ought to be renominated becauso his administration has been an ablo one. Colonel Morrison, of tho Interstate Commission, turns up in Illinois as the claimant of the Cleveland assets in that State in opposition to Senator Palmer, whom he opposes on all grounds, but mainly because ho is in his seventyfifth year, and a very good reason it is. A party which has no other man to pre sent for tho presidency than one seventy-five years of age is open to the charge of producing no men of available capac ity during two generations. The Washington correspondent of tho New York Sun sounds another note of warning against Democratic extrava gance. "There are indications," he says, "that some of the regular appro priation bills, whose enormous amounts last year gave rise to tho scandal of the Billion CongTess, are getting very near to high-water mark in the various committees that are preparing them for lubruiAsion to tho House." It is said that the river and harbor bill, which will be reported to the Houso in a few days, will carry nearly 21,000,000, which was the amount of tho last bill. It is also Whispered that the committee on public buildings and groands finds it almost impossible to resist the de in and for appropriations in this direc tion, and the members of the committee themselves arc divided as to what course

to pursue. All of which means that the great professions of Democratic economy aro likely to prove a Hash in the pan.

A TCOSD ABOUT THE JOUBNAL. There is no moro remarkable feature in tho history of this countrv than tho growth and development of the press. We are not about to dilate on that hackneyed theme, "the power of the press," but it goes without snying that it is one of tho most potent factors in American life to-day, and is constantly growingjn power and influence. Its past history furnishes one of the most interesting chapters in the development of our national character, and, without doubt, its future progress will be fully commensurate with that of the country and people. Tho first daily newspaper in the United States was issued in Philadelphia in 1TS4, only a little more than a hundred years ago. Now there are nearly, two thousand daily papers, besides a great number of weeklies, semi-weeklies and tri-wceklies, all contributing, according to their mean?, to the dissemination of news and the formation of public opinion. Nearly every county in tho United States hasono or moro county papers, and almost every city of five thousand population has at least one daily. In the development of this great social factor tho Indianapolis Journal has borne an active and conspicuous part. Writhout claiming to havo led the procession, it. may without boasting say that it has kept up with it, and is today well along towurd the front. There are a few older and larger daily papers in tho United States than tho Journal, but there is none which enjoys a better reputation for fair dealing with its patrons or maintains a higher standard for careful, conscientious and intelligent work in serving tho public Every city owes a great deal to its press, and Indianapolis is no exception. It is often remarked that the papers of Indianapolis are ahead of tho city, moaning thereby that they are better than tho field justifies and better than those of any other city of this class. The general public cannot be expected to know this as well as newspaper men, but it i3 nevertheless a fact. Indianapolis owes more to its press than it realizes, and at least as much to the Journal as to any other paper. Established in the infancy of the city, the Journal has grown with its growth and strengthened with its strength, laboring constantly year after year for the public welfare and endeavoring to promote its own prosperity by advancing that of the city. It has earned public confidence by deserving it, and has been well repaid by the generons support of tho public for its efforts to serve it. An important event in the history of tho Journal was the reduction in its prico on tho 1st of October last. Business men will readily understand that tho decision to reduce tho prico of the paper nearly CO per cent, was accompanied by some misgiving as to the result. It could not be known in advance whether or not so material a reduction would bo followed by an increase of circulation great enough to counterbalance the reduction, but it was decided to trust the liberality of the public. The result has more than justified tho measure. The reduction in tho price of tho paper has been followed by an incrcaso of circulation for in excess of its most sanguine expectations. The actual increase has been so great and the prospective incrcaso is so assnred that the Journal has been obliged to purchaso a second press, which has been placed in position during the last few. days. It now has two perfecting Hoe presses, each capable of printing fifteen thousand papers per hour. With 'theeo enlarged facilities the Journal can print a largo edition in half tho time that it formerly could, and its patrons need never be disappointed in getting the latest news or having tho paper delivered at an early hour. The now press is a costly improvement, but the public will got tho benefit of it. An article in another part of this issue gives some account of the organfzation of the Journal and of the amount and kind of work that goes to making a daily paper. When it is rememberod that this work has to be done 3G3 days in the year the reader can form an intelligent idea of what it costs to furnish him his morning paper. The Journal is not much given to exploiting its own nfl'airg, but on this occasion it will inform the public, confidentially, that it is preparing to furnish a better paper in tho future than it has in tho past. Although the price of tho paper has been cheapened, its character will not be. This is an era of lowpriced papers, but it is also an era of good papers, and the Journal will not bo loft behind in either respect. Its facilities for collecting news, both by press associations and special service, are better than ever before, and every department of the paper will be kept up to the highest standard. The Journal is already a very cheap paper, considering its quality, but if tho time should come when public patronage shall justify it in making a further reduction of price, it will not hesitate to do so. Meanwhile, the public is reminded that now is tho time to subscribe. THE EECE1VESSHIP QUESTION. Judge Taylor's supplemental statement of the reasons which induced him to appoint a receiver for the street-railroad company is an able defense of his action. It shows that he realizes that tho proceeding was an extraordinary one, a new departure in practice, and that it is likely to bo questioned by tho legal profession as well as by tho public. In this he is undoubtedly right. No person who knows Judge Taylor will question the honesty of his motives, and it may bo that his action in this case will stand the test of legal criticism, but the fact remains that it Is entirely without precedent. Judgo Taylor is a good lawyer, and in making a now departure is as likely to establish a good precedent as any 1udge we have, but the fact that his action in this caso is entirely without precedent lays it open to question. Tho first point of departure in the present case was that there was no action pending and that the application

for a receiver was an original suit. Always heretofore the law has been that the appointment of a receiver is an auxiliary proceeding, incidental to a main action. High cn Receivers says: "Except in rare cases a suit will not be entertained which seeks, as its primary and principal object, the appointment of a receiver." In tho Flench Bank case, C3d Cal., 403. Chief-justice Wallace, delivering tho opinion of tho court, said: "Thero is, of course, no such thing nsan action brought distinctively for the mere appointment of a receiver. Such an appointment, when made, is auxiliary to or in aid of tho action brought. Its purposo is to preserve the property pending the litigation, so that the relief awarded by tho judgment, if any, may be secure." It has been held in California and Colorado that there is no such thing known to tho practice as an independent proceeding to havo a receiver appointed, and that tho relief can only be granted as auxiliary to the main relief which the plaintiff seeks. In Gluck and Bcckor on Receivers of Corporations it is said: "It is, of course, essential to the jurisdiction of the court thata cause be pending and that the corporation over which it is proposed to extend the receiver ship be a party thereto." No writer on receiverships, no text-book and no reported case recognizes the right of a court to appoint a receiver except as incidental to a main action and for tho purposo of preserving property or protecting rights, pending tho litigation. In this respect, therefore, tho action of Judge Taylor is without a precedent. A much greater departure from all precedents is in tho naturo of the application in tho present caso and the grounds on which the receiver was appointed. All writers and reported cases

agrco that a receiver for a corporation can'only be appointed on the application of a real party in interest, as a creditor, a stockholder, a bondholder, a "mortgagee, or something of that kind. Being a remedy to preserve property it can only be applied on the application of one who has an interest in tho preservation of the .property. To quoto again from High on Receivers: A receiver will be appointed whenever it is made to appear that it is ceoessary, either to preserve the estate of the corporation after it has been abandoned by the management and there is no competent per -so a authorized to take possession and control it. or that the agents or other persons so authorized aro misusing or misapplying the trust fund to the injury of creditors, or are about to place it beyond the court's jurisdiction. The fame author says: "A receiver pendente lite is appointed only for the benefit of such of tho parties to the cause as shall appear to be entitled to the fund in controversy, and not for the benefit of strangers to tho suit." Again he says: "If is important to observo that courts of. equity lend their extraordinary aid by the appointment of receivers onlj in behalf of those who havo used duo diligence in the assertion of their rights." This implies that the appointment of a receiver must be auxiliary to a main suit; that the applicant for a receiver must have property rights entitled to protection, and that he must have exercised due diligence intfescrting those rights beforo asking Tor a receiver. In the present case the receiver was not appointed to preserve property pendente lite, nor was ho appointed on tho application of a person who had any property rights in tho case. How very widely Judge Taylor's action departed from these principles appears in his own statement. He says tho appointment was made "to restore the car service for tho benefit of the citizens of Indianapolis and those generally requiring it." There is nothing in the books like this or resembling it, even remotely. To justify tho action of the court Judge Taylor finds that u contract existed between the city and tho street-railroad company which any citizen was entitled to have enforced by tho appointment of a receiver. This may be good law, but it is strictly new. In tho entire range of legal literature there is nothing to give color to it. Wo conclude, first, that Judge Taylor's action violates every established principle of the law of receiverships and establishes a new precedent; second, that his action may possibly be justified on broad grounds of public policy; third, that the principles involved aro of such importance that they ought to be passed upon and definitely settled by a court of last resort. THE LUIIPIKG-GHOUND OF DEPEECIATED 8ILYEE. The Bland bill, which the House has voted to consider March 22, 23 and 24, not only provides for tho free coinage of silver bullion which the owners may bring to tho mints, but for the purchaso by tho United States, at Sl.2929 an ounce, with legal-tender notes, all silver bullion which may bo brought to the mints. Silver bullion is now worth about 00 cents an ounce. Consequently, tho act makes the government the purchaser of all tho silver bullion brought to its mints at nearly 40 cents an ounce over tho eurrcnt market price. The report which Mr. Bland submitted with tho bill asserts, and the advocates of free coina" generally havo under taken to make it appear, that thero is very little silver in Europe and other countries which could bo brought to this country to obtain the advantage of the enhanced prico of bullion which tho free-coinage bill affords in the event of its passage. In an article in the current mimber of the Forum entitled, "Would Free Coinage Bring European Silver Here?" Mr. Leech, tho Director of tho Mints, presents somo valuable information. The product of silver has more than doubled C3.000.000 ounces in 1873, against 140.000,000 ounces in 1891. The stock of silver in tho prin cipal countries of the world, exclusive of tho United States, approximates 3, 397,000,000, of which $2,930,000,000 are full legal-tender coins. Except in countries where eilver coins ore intercon vertible with gold coins their actual purchasing power, as compared with gold, is between 30 and 40 per cent. let-s than that of the yellow coin. The stock of full legnl-teuder silver coins in the principal countries of Europe ap proximates $1,100,000,000, of which about $430,000,000 are stored in tho vaults of

five banking-houses and are not used as money except as the basis of a limited

paper circulation. When the United States proposes to pay the gold price for those millions of silver which, in circulation, havo lost more than SO per cent, of their purchasing power com pared with gold, and to turn these mill ions of practically idle silver in bank vaults into useful and much-needed gold, is it not absurd to assume that the bulk of that silver will not bo dumped into our mints and .the legal-tender notes received for it exchanged for gold, even if there should be a slight discount! While it is possible that free coinage or the wholesale purchase of eilver by the United States will temporarily raise the price of silver to $1.29 an ounce in gold, no financier in Europe, not even the most ardent champions of bimetal lism, expect to see that price main tained, but, on the contrary, they pre dict its gradual decline, 60 that tho more silver declines in tho markets of the world the greater will be its momentum toward a country which has gold as well as silver, and in which the highest price is paid for silver bullion that is offered in the world. Indeed, every champion of silver and bimetallism in Europe, like Henri Cernuschi, maintains that true bimetallism, the free coinage and interchange of both metals as money, can only be secured by general international action. ' . European countries are now strongly tending toward the gold standard and are seeking gold and holding it with the avidity of misers. During the six months ending last January our ex ports of merchandise exceeded our im ports by $155,000,000, but Europe sent us $30,000,000 of gold in settlement of the balance due us, preferring to part with valuable American securities rather than diminish its stock of gold. The reason which leads commercial nations to hoard gold and to cling to the gold basis is that all international exchanges, even those of silver-standard countries, are settled by comparison with tho En glish gold pound sterling. In those countrios in which the silver standard is observed in domestic trade, all for eign commerce and the values of all articles produced in all countries in such traffic, aro measured by comparison with tho English pound. Therefore all European nations which are engaged in foreign trade are tending to tho gold standard and hoarding that metal. Mr. Leech calls attention to the fact that the great mass of silver five-franc pieces held by the Bank of Franco are so held that the debtor states of the Latin Union, like Italy and Belgium, must redeem them in gold at tho end of any year. As those governments could not raiso the gold without financial dis turbance, and as. they will not circulate, tho moment that anything like $1.29 per ounce in gold can be obtained for that eilver that stock of five-franc pieces would bo sent where such a prico could bo realized. Thus Mr. Leech proceeds to note the situation of silver in noarly every foreign country, and then arrives at the following conclusion: . . If onr mints should be open to the free coinage of silver.unQer existing conditions. the stocks of silver would move to this country solely berause they could be con verted, at tho highest price, into our lcgaltendor money, which would in turn be converted into gold at par: bnt the moment our enrrency reached a silver basis, when our legal-tender paper money could only be exchanged for silver dollars, the prolit to tbe foreign silver owner would cease, and silver would lie imported then only as an exchange matter, just &s gold is now. "What would wo gain," Mr. Leech asks, "if we should exchange our stock of gold for a tock of silver!" The question is worthy of serious considera tion, particularly by those who have been led to beliovo that tho average man who has no .silver bullion' to sell, and who owns .no bonanza silver mines, will, in some unaccountable way, be benefited by tho free coinage of silver. The silver dollar circulates here now, tho equal of gold,, becauso it is carried on the back of gold, is redeemablo in gold, and its coinage, always limited. is now practically stopped; but put it on its own merits, tho silver dollar worth in the markets of the world as bullion less than 73 cents and the gold dollar worth 100 cents in the world's maiket placethat is, pass tho freecoinage bill and what will happen? "One of two things," says tho Director of tho Mints, who is a bimetallist, "will moat certainly occur: either our gold will go to a premium and bo withdrawn from circulation, or it will go abroad to pay for the silver which will be shipped here for sale. In either event we shall reach a eilver basis." The capitalists who have money to engage in the spec ulation, the holders of silver bullion arftl owners of silver mines would make millions, and the United States would take its place with India and China, and other silver - standard nations. The country will have no more money, but every dollar will bo a clipped coin in the markets of the world. TnE readers of Indiana Democratic papers can but notice that Isaac Pusey Gray is getting nearly all tho delegates chosen to select delegates to the na tional convention, that his namo is greeted with deafening applause, and that the resolutions declare that he is altogether the most conspicuous and rep resentative Democrat in the United States. This latter statement will be regarded in the nature of exclusive in formation in Democratic circles gen erally. It will also be noticed that tho namo of Grover Cleveland is rarely spoken in these Democratic county con ventions in Indiana. Indeed, thero is every indication that Isaac Pusey Gray will meet David Bennett Hill with a full delegation prepared to make tho combination of Hill and Gray for the transparencies of the next Democratic campaign. Of the eighty:four votes in the House against consideration of the RIand bill, on Monday, fifteen were thoso of Re publicans, which makes tho number of Democrats opposed to present consider ation and free silver coinage sixty-nine. Of tho 190 who voted for consideration, about thirty were Republicans, leaving ICO Democrats in favor of the Bland bill, including the Simpson-Watson co teric. That i, the number of Demo crats in tho House, on a full vote, in

favor of the Bland bill is three times the number of Democrats who can be mas

tered to oppose it. The truth is that the Democratic party in Congress, outside of Now England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with a few exceptions in the cities of Ohio, Illinois, and a few business men like Cable of Illinois, is in favor of free coinage. The Louisville Courier-Journal begins n leading editorial thus: During the cam Dai cn of 1SSS Mr. Harrison denied that the American workingmen wanted cheap clothing, for, said he: "A cheap coat always covers a choap man." In making positive assertions of that kind it is best to bo accurate. General Harrison never made the statement quoted during the campaign of 1S89 or at any other time. In a speech delivered in Chicago, several months before his nomination, he said: I am one of those nninstrncted political economists that have an impression that some things nuiy be too cheap; that I cannot rind myself in full sympathy with this demand for cheaper coats, which seems to rue necessarily to involve a cheaper man and woman nnder the coat I believe it is true to-day that we have many things in this country that aro too cheap, because whenever it is proved that tho man or woman who produces any articlo cannot get a decent living oat of it. then it is too cheap. This statement needs no elucidation. General Harrison was arguing that there was a point beyond which cheapness might become a curse because it would represent the ill-paid toil of the laborer. by which cheap coats would imply cheap men and women. . His whole speech was an argument in favor of protecting American workmen and wages against the clamor for cheapness. It can only be misrepresented by misquoting or garbling it, as the Courier-Journal does. There is blood on the moon in both hemispheres. Slugger Sullivan says: "That man Mitchell don't want to fight," and Mitchell retorts, "all that old woman Sullivan has to do is to put his name to the articles." Emperor William says: "I will pul verize Russia," and Czar Alexander replies, "tell your Emperor that when he wants to begin pulverizing I will throw half a million men Across the frontier with the greatest pleasure." If these pugnacious individuals can not be controlled in any other way somebody ought to move for the appointment of a receiver. The woman reported as having given her baby a teaspoonful of aconite, added to one drop of cough syrup, instead qf the reverse proportions, must bo a near relative of the women who keep the family box of "Rough on Rats" on the same shelf with the baking powder. Tbe propensity some women have for putting drugs where they will do the most harm is one that should be taken more closely into account by physicians and apothecaries. In a recent account of Emperor William's peculiarities it was stated that two glasses of champagne cleared his brain, but that three glasses made him dizzy, or something to that effect. He must have taken bis third glass before he made that remark relative to pulverizing Russia. When courts get to "sassing'' each other at Judge Brown and Judge Harper are doing, isn't contempt tloatiug around somewhere? And if it is, what aro tbe courts going to do about it? As a community progresses In intellectuality. doc its Moas of ireedcm changel LoaUvllle Courier-Journal. 'We see no reason to think they does. To the Editor of the Indlanaioll4 Journal? Is Mr. Bland, author of the sliver bill, con nected in any manner with bllver mining! A SUBSCRIBER. We think not, but he is as crazy on the subject of free coinage as if he were. RUBBLES IN TUB A1C AVhat He Is. "A crank," said one of them, "is a man who has more sense than tho law allows." A Wise Youuk Alan. Mudge You don't find me wasting my time trying to get even with my enemies. Yabsley No, Indeed. You aro too busy trying to get ahead of your friends. . )n Ksntlal Lacking;. Wlckars I see that Sir Edwin Arnold, Instead of submitting to an interview. Just hands the reporter one of his poems. Why don't you try that scheme I . Vickars There never has been any reporter around to Interview mo yet That Perennial Contention. Miss Chotcau, of SL Louis We lead tbe world In one item, at least. There are more shoes sold in proportion to population than la any other city. Miss Wabash, of Chicago I presume you mean more leather la sold in the form of shoes 1 True to Her Tratt. On the night of March 8, 1891, Mr. Wickwire brought home a package. . (This word should be taken in its literal sen$e.) "What have you there, dear!" asked his wife. "That," said Mr. Wickwire, Impressively, "is a clock a new-fangled clock that runs a year on one winding. I purpose to go to sleep in peace hereafter." On the night of March 8, 1392, at 11:13 p. M., Mr. Wickwire awakened from a dream of a railway wreck, in which the broken driving-rod of the overturned locomotive was slowly Jabbing its way through his vitals, to find that his wife was arousing him in the usual manner with her elbow. "Um-m what tbe what's up!" Did you wind the clock, Henry, dear!" Woman may forgive, but she cannot forget. ABOUT I'tOPliE AND THINGS. TnE first woman ever placed on tbe school board of Bnffaio is Mrs. Lily Lord Titlt. who was recently appointed. Mi&s Cauolinu Phelps Stokes has given Ansonia, Conn., a drinking fountain, in memory of Anna Sewell. of England, the aathor of "Black Beauty." Mi:. Susan B. Anthony has been Immortalized by a souvenir spoon, which bears not onlv her likeness and name, bat also the watchword of her cause "Political Kquality." A Nicw Yokk mediumistic artist has succeeded m marrying a venerable widow to whom he delivered messages from her "deceased friends." She is over seventy, but has a tine figure ix;0,000 which probably proved a strong attraction to the medium. In a list of "curious thiues" the St. Louis Republic mentions that a man weighing 154 pounds has enough iron hid away in him to make a plowshare, and enough phosphorus to make a half million matches; aUo that Montroal, in icy Canada, is in the i&uie latitude as Venice, in sunny Italy. Tuk publio portraits of Mrs. Deacon, the nnhappy heroine of the Cannes tragedy, recall in a striking way the pictures of Boronens Vecsera, whose love for the Crown Prince Hudolph canned her death. There is a noteworthy resemblance in the shape of tb head, the urrKngeravnt of tho hair, the eyes and the carl of the eyelashes. Mb. Gladstone has a small black Pomeranian dog, presented to him iu Germ tny four years ago, t which ho is much at

tached. His af.ection Is heartily reciprocated by "Vetz." The little fellow accompanies his master on all his walks. And especially delights in chasing sticks that are thrown for mm. In the parish books at Pret witch, date T7SC, the following entry occurs: "It is ordered that ISs a year, and a new coat every other year, be given to George Grimshaw for his trouble and pains in waking sleepers in church, whipping out dogs, keeping children quiet and orderly and keeping ye pulpit aud cburch-walls clean." Totally blind and with his paralyzed hands fallinc helplessly in front of him, tbe Rev. Dr. George Douglass is not an impressive-looking pulpit orator, and yet there is no preacher in Canada who can equal him in the sweet-voiced expression ot brilliant thoughts and in the flowing current of poetio aud pathetic argument, Makia Mohan is a pretty eighteen-year-old girl of Newark, X. J., whose name is one of praise in that city. When courage failed the regular nurses she volunteered for service at the small-pox hospital there. The health oillcer of ewark says he thinks that the modest heroine has in her the material of which Florence Nightingales are made. Thomas Smith, a millionaire Und-owner of Detroit, kept a dairy most of his life and laid up wealth. He was already three-scoreand-ten when ho decided to mary again, liis bride, who is a little over a fourth of bis age. now lives in a luxurious separate establishment, whilo. the nonagenarian is a paralytio and lives at the old dairy. Madame Patti somewhat surprised her manager, on her recent trip from Louisville to Pittsburg, when she had a special train, by asking to have tbe speed slackened, or rather the train stopped. At that particular moment it was making remarkable time. Her request having been complied with, she stepped oil the cars and exercised her pet iikye for fifteen minutes, and then allowed the journey to be resumed. A correspondent who saw ex-Secretary Balfour, the new leader of the House, at the opening of Parliament, writes that though this much-hated man appears kindly, genial and modost. there is in his big lower jaw something that makes one t hi nil of a man of steel and adamant rather than of tlcsh and blood. Yet Balfour used to lounge about clad in a satin dressing-gown embroidered with lilies, and would not read tbe newspapers because they bored him! Congressman "Lou" Stewart, of Illinois has one home interest that he never neglects. Whenever a circus comes anywhere near Piano, the town which his farm adjoins, he hires a special train and takes all the children of the place to the show at his own expense. When he was nominated lsst fall ho declined to either contribute anything towards bis election or to print or circulate tickets or anythtng else with his name on them, but he had a comfortable majority. A certain HerrPaulRiehm has invented a mist or fog ball with which to envelop yonr enemy in a deep mist, nay, even a thick fog. These fog balls aro easily broken spheres, containing ammonia and acids, which, npon f scaping, crettte a fog that envelops all around it. until blown away by the wind. Battles, though, are not always fought on windless, calm days. But, says the inventor, with this log around them it will be impossible for tho enemy to rind tbe range, or to reply to tho lire of the attack. Abby H. Dickinson, late of Hatfield, Mass., gave 3-0 to Franklin Academy, Nebraska, 500 to the American Missionary Association, 50 J to the Women's Board of Foreign Missions, 500 to the American Home MisMonary Society, $200 to tbe Foreign Sunday-hchol Society. SU0 to Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley, $500 to inith College, Northampton. J5J0 to the New Went Education Commission and &500 to perpetuate the memory of Benjamin Waite. who rescued & party of Hatfield people taken captive by Indians in 1077 aud carried to Canada. " The Athenuium says that it will interest the admirers of "Teas of the D'Urbervillca" to know that the opening incidents, which some critics denounced as unnatural, took place under Mr. Hardy's eyes. He was standing at tho corner of a street in a small town iu Dorsetshire, when a tipsey man staggered past, saying. "I've got a great family vault over nt ." Mr. Hardy's curiosity wan roused, and he found that the man's statement was true. He represented one of oar oldest Norman families. Tho novel grew up from this incident, supplemented by other facte. how to keep a secret. A woman mi cat a secret keep, Aud 9afe forever lock it. If hhe would only think to put The secret In her poceL NewYoric HcraM.

'A MUGWUMP OPINION, y Mr. Cleveland's Nomination . Would Not Inure Democratic Success. Harper's Weekly. At an independent observer of politics, we cannot agn-e with those who think that the nomination of Mr. Cleveland is all that is necetsary to restore the Democratic party to national power. His nomination would secure the candidacy of, a man whose views upon public qnestions seem to us very sound, and who bus a great deal ot publio conscience and courage. But events are constantly demonstrating that be ;s not a real representative of the Democratic party, and for that reason we are not UUposed to think that he would bo its strongest candidate. He would undoubtedly receive the support of a largo independent vote, and of many independent journals, but bo would lose a larger Democratic support. The silver Democrats are implacably opposed to bim, except some of tho lree-silver leaders like Mr. Mills and Mr. Carlisle, who are willing to recover party power upon a more promising issue, like t.iritl" reform, leaving the chance of silver legislation to follow such recovery. But the unsound currency men would do us the friends ot Mr. Hill in New York did in tbe campaign of l&S. They would smile aud stab. But apart from that, the renomination of Mr. Cleveland would b contrary to all party precedent. Mr. John Bigelow states the case accurately in saying: A President who seeks a renomination asks the country to approve of his administration. Mr. Cleveland sought a renomination. ami in a perfectly fair content bis administration was not approved of. No national convention will cure to commit tbe fortunes of tbe party to a easel which the poopie have deliberately pronounced uiiMraworthy." Of course it may be said that Mr. Cleveland was sold out in New York by the fruudsof Mr. Hill, but the dishonors f cheating and bribery iu the election were "easy." In other words. Mr. Bigelow'a "perfectly fair contest" means as fair as usual. His statement, Ave say, is uccuarate from the party point of view. A party convention would naturally take that view, and if is quite pathetic to e how resolutely newspapers that wish to see Mr. Cleveland nominated insist that he will be. We should gladly see his nomination, but as honubt ooservers and reporters of the signs of the times, we cannot profets to expect it. If the Democratic prty were solely intent upon tariiT reform. a sound currency, and a reformed civil service, it would, of course, nominate Mr. Cleveland. But it has othdr purposes than these, while Mr. Cleveland's views upon some of these question are not tho of his party. Tnat is the reason, not the force ot personal jealousies and intrigues, which seems to us to make his nomination improbable. 'iht-re is another view which is also worthy of attention. If it be still uncertain, as is universally agreed, whether the Democratic party is or is not bent t.pon taiupt-riuiz with the currency, and tf its decision upon this point must be rieU-r-Liined in favor of homsty by a small majority, acting not npon grounds of conviction, but of temporary expediency, as in the case of McMsrs. Mills and Carlisle, are honest and conservative men, I eoauw they deiro t.triu' reform, quite ready to help to bring the Democratic party into ; power! uo not Hay mat tney may not. In the alternative it may be the winer course. But certainly the prehent position of tho party shows that it doea not discharge the dutv of a party in our political system. A party is properly an orgauized body composed of those who

agre in opinion and wish to promote m common policr. But a party is no party at all. it is a nx-r mob or mass-meeting, whtnithasto poll itself to discover ltt own views or policy. If the Democratic Houe should reject the Bland bill by a small majority, would anybody suppose that therefore the Democratic party may be supported as a sound currency party. or that the issue of sound currency may be blinked, in tbe hope that because tariff reform might be practicable nnder Democratic auspices, its action upon the correr.cy may be risked? These are questions wbien occur to many "thouchtful olservers." who do not clearly comprehend the suggestion that the position of a national party upon fundamental questions cannot be known nntil it is seen whom it nominates for President or how it votes in Congress.

THE II t ST O IVY OF CORPS BADGES. General Bntterfleld Explains the Origin of the Different Symbols. New York WvrM. Gen. Daniel Bntterfield, who Invented the rorpa badges used by the Army of the Potomac, has just given bis reasons lor ehoosing the various emblems. In answer to an inquiry be saya that the desirability of such distinctive marks occurred to bun esrly in the war. He discussed the nuU ect wth General McClrllan and others. iVhile General Buttertield was chief nt statt of the Army of the Potomac General Hooker approved the plan. "The selection ot a design for the First Corps," he continues, "was simply the hut thing thought of a disc bad co particular reason or cause. A patch or lozenge was reserved for the Third Corps, as Kearny's division was of that corps, to . that the mark he had put on hit men need not be changed, and that incident fixed the color of the mark for the First Division, red; the white for the Second, ana blue for tho Third, following naturally as national colors. "For the Second Corps the trefoil wat chosen as a fort of shamrock, there being many troops of Irish origin or descent m that corps, and 1 wished the marks to become popular with tbe commands. "In tbe Fifth Corrs in my old brigade was my old regiment, the Twelfth New York, which I had commanded as a militia resriment before tho war. 1 had decorated many of it othceM and men with bronze and gold Maltese cross's for efficient and thorough discharge of duty prior to this, so I reserved the Maltese cross for them for that reason. "Tho badges or marks of the other corps named herein were chosen by me for no reason other thau to have some pleasing form or shape, easily and quickly distinguished lroiu the others, and capable of aiding iu tbe Vsprit de corps' aud elevation of . tbe morale and discipline of tbe army 1 desired to establish, which at that time, generally speaking, was simply abominable, desertions occurring by the thousands, aud money and cl -thing being sent for the purpose, which we seized and held at headquarters, delaying the money and keeping back tbe civilian's clothing to prevent its una for desertion. "Through these measures, with others, the morale of the army and its tone were restored, and improved to a very high standard, higher, I think, than it had been before or after. "With corps marks or badges other than those I have here referred to I had no part iu designation, except iu tbe Fourteenth Corps, (ten. Georgo 11. Thomas. The General and myself bad served as brigade commanders In Patterson's column in lbC. and were personally well ac quainted. When we took the Eleventh and Twelfth Corpt from tne Army of tbe Potomac to remlono the Army of the Cumberland after Chickamauga General Thomas first saw and liked tho idea of our corps marks and badges. He directed General Whipple, hit adjutant-general, to prepare one for tho Fourteenth. 'General Whipple bad many designs of a geometrical form, bat General Thomas did not seem to like them and told bim to tend for me and consnlt me. I saw his forma and told bim that, had I commanded the Fourteenth Corps, which 'stood as firm as an oak' tt Chicamauga, as it was then spoken ot, 1 would givo them tbe acorn for a badge in honor of their bravery. General Tho mat said: That is what wo will do; let it be tbe acorn.' With this exception, beyond the corps I have mentioned. I bad nothing to do with tbe tho designation of forma and marks, save that the idea and custom, arose with me and was followed by others." How to c;t t u New Yc rk Commercial Alvertlier. Are you painfully thiu! Do yon ever stand before your mirror and heave a sigh of re ure t at your lack of roundness of fact and form which is o apparent! If yon da so, yoa may find consolation at hearing ot a Mystem of "putting on llesh" as employed with satisfactory results by a number of people. Brieiiy. yon go to bed and allow yourself to be fed up. In twenty-four hour's you have eight glasses t milk with cream, and three huge meals. That the fattening ettect of all this food may not be allowed to be worked oil you are allowed to make co exertion. Everything short of the process of mastication is done for you. You don't even wash yourself. Besides being washed yon are massaged and rnbbed with oil. This last operation n an intelligible pari - of tbe process of putting on fat. but not quite to clear as the electricity. This sort of thing is dono continuously for three months, and tht woman who has gone through tbe operation that she may make a more presentable figure gets up with t lighter heart and a body pernaps two stone heavier. om women go tbrongh this frocess for the cure of nervons complaints. )o you think yon would be willing to submit to this treatment for the sake of acquiring a plumpness which you do not now possess! t Departure of th ltendals. Tbe Epoch. The Kendals return to tbe city on Monday to say good-bye. Dear Madge will be quite heart-broken at bidding farewell to kind, lovely Americans, with their bright, merry dollaresque appreciation, while Willie well, be will be eorry because Madge is sorry. All tbe same, we may look fur some very interesting criticisms on thu country When the Kendals get back to Loudou. Double Standard for Drunkenness. Looirrll'e Courier-J coruaL Thesilver men should see the doctors about intrndtirinz a bichlorate of silver in place of the golden preparation for inebri'ates. While we have so many rich silver mines, there should bono single standard of remedies, for a dieaso so common as drunk en dens. All Western inebriates, at least, would prefer a silver injection. AVotkitie Oft" Thtr III Tern J PhllsdelpMa Record. A correspondent tells of a family" whe used to get up in bad humor every morning a:id wrangle over their breakfast, 'ihe thoughtful lord and mooter bouKbt a football which he suspended from the ceiling and made each member of tho household jiick it for a abort time before sitting down to the table. Peace now reiges. m m Tbe Five-Cent 1 loose. PhU&Oltbla Tress. I The 5-cent Congress Is making constant etlorts to live up to its nickname. It hat followed its relusai to send looa to too lamine-strickeii l.'usiatia by cutting down the appropriations for Indian schools. ' Realiv. the Democratic House would seem lO UO Bl uaiuituu m u ta ikcjuiiitu. - -Frre Trad PueoD't Itastfton. Detroit Tribune. Free-traders will have a hard time findin any good reason wl.j- Canadian lumbermen should be allowed to compete in our markets ou terms of o'luulity witli citizens of the United Mates, but then tbe freetrader rarely stops to consider such paltry things as reason. Lenten Far. New Yirk Reecrder. Modern tack-cloth is of exquisitely bne texture, modern ashes a delicate periame, bat the fish-balls are tho hiur.e old auggestert ot penance, aud the rggt tho same old reminders of sins done in the body. . m m m AUa, How 11 at a YV llu! Memphis Apeal-AT.naiiCt:tt The Alabama man who was shot recently because bis tobacco smoke was objections-bl-. was probably smoking one of Senator Ycorhces's best ciusrs. Clevtlsud' Occupation. Detroit Tribune Citizen Cleveland ia said to be en mired in a erchiuir investigation of th (p tion: "Why should the epirit ot inoriui proud!"