Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1893 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1893.

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Can Te ton th at the followiiicplvs: PAItIK American Exchange In Pari, SO Boulevard Ce Caput ines. KEV YORK Gilsey Houe and Windsor Hotel. PHILADELPHIA A. pTKemble, 3733 Lancaster avmne. CHICAGO Palmer llf.nse. CINCINNATI J. R. Ilawley & Co.. 154 Vino street. LOUISVILLE C.T. Deerlng. nortAwest corner of 1 hlril and J tlferbon streets. W ET. LOUIS-Union News Co, Union Depot Washington, d. g iuggs liousa and Ebbitt JIcue. "When Mr. Cleveland declares that he is "constantly praying" for his party ho confesses that ho knows and fears its proncnesa to do evil. If the Washington Post is correctly informed, ex-Governor Gray will go into the Cleveland Cabinet knowing that ho is not wanted by tho President. The dignitaries of tho Catholic Church appear to bp getting up a controversy which will have as much influence in tho religious world as a heresy trial. It will not make Mr. Cleveland specially happy to have Tammany head the inaugural procession. Nevertheless, such a prominenco is in harmony with tho fitness of things. It is tho oldest Democratic organization in tho country. The President's order extending tho classification of the postal service so as to include all free-delivery offices will bring under tho civil-service law about CoO postofiices not now included. Of these, 67 offices have 23 or more, but less than 50 employes; about 200 have 10 bnt less than 25 employes, about 220 have lesthan 10 employes. This and other extensions made by President Harrison make tho total number of places within tho classified service 43,000. Mr. Steektkk is now in Kansas showing that Jerry Simpson is no Populist, because ho urged tho election of a Democratic Senator in Illinois. And Mr. Streeter is right. If Jerry Simpson should turn about and declare that Mr. Streeter is no Populist, Jerry Simpson would be right, as Mr. Streeter promised the Republicans in tho Illinois Legislature, if they would voto for him for United States Senator, ho would act with the Republicans on every matter except tho currency. Tho truth is, all these leaders are truo to but one idea their individual interest. The American hog is up and coming. At the present rate ho will soon be out of sight, and persons who wish to economize will have to eat venison or game birds instead of pork. With a prospective shortage of all kinds of hog products for several months to come, his hogship is likely to be appreciated ns never before. It is said that thrifty pig-owners are sitting up nights feeding corn to their pigs, whieh are kept blanketed to protect them from tho cold and expedite their fattening in time to catch the market at $10 per hundred. However this may be, tho hog is an object of interest. In view of tho fact that the State of Georgia has not made, and is not likely to make, any appropriation for an exhibit at tho Columbian World's Exposition, the Augusta Chronicle suggests ft way of advertising tho State. 'If Georgia," it says, "will havo a free distribution of Georgia watermelons and peaches on tho fair grounds once or twice a week, after theso fruits become ripe, she may Bucceed in getting talked about more than any other State on tho list." Tho suggestion has the merit of novelty, to say tho least, aud the probability is that a large number of watermelons could be disposed of in that way. A Washington telegram says that a few days ago tho private-pension bill of one Samuel J. Campbell, of this county, came up in tho House, whereupon Mr. Bland, of Missouri, not only declared his purpose to defeat it, but pitched into pensioners generally in a very abusive manner. Finally Mr. 15 la mi's filibustering prevented tho passage of tho bill. The next morning the Campbell bill came up, but Rland was absent, and Kilgore and other pension-fighters were silent. This led to nn inquiry, which developed tho fact that tho Indiana Democratic members had seen Bland, Kilgoro and other hostiles and explained to them that Campbell is a Democrat who did some good party work in the late campaign. The Southern Democratic Congressman always assumes that a veteran cannot bo a Democrat. Mr. Langsdalu's defeuse of tho action of tho monument commission in diverting it from its original purposo and belittling tho event it was intended to commemorate is ingenious, plausible, fallacious and characteristic. It shows that having started in to commit a breach of trust and violation of law he is determined to fight it out on that line. The talk about tho necessity of placarding tho Mexican war dates on tho monument in order to resent tho insult to Indiana soldiers in Mexico is very silly In tho faco of the fact, established beyond the shadow of a doubt by contemporaneous history and all the official reports of the battle of Buena Vista, that tho Second Indiana Regi-

ment did break and run, only a portion of the regiment being afterwards rallied. However, it is quito evident that there is a conspiracy to Mexicanize tho monument and that a mnjority of tho commissioners are in it.

AS TO THE ACQUISITION OF CANADA. TheNew York Sun, discussing further the qtiestion of acquiring Canada, qnotes a statement from the Journal that "two things must occur before it will become a live or practical question in this country: First, a majority of the people of Canada must declare in favor of annexation; and, second, the British government must gives its consent, or, nt least, agree to keep hands off." Tho Sun thinks that "as a national question of paramount importance" it is already a live question, and pressing for consideration. But is it "a national question of paramount importance!" There is room for difference of opinion onthat point. In regard to the Journal's suggestion that before tho acquisition of Canada could become a live or practical ques tion for the consideration of tho American people tho British government must first give its consent, or agree to keep hands off, the Sun eays: So far as the United States are concerned it has never been their policy to consult Great Britain in regard to purely American questions. Tho Monroe doctrine does not, in its essence, encourage such consultation, and the idea of manifest destiny, which is quite as deeply implanted in tho Americau . heart, is utterly opposed to it. But is it purely an American question which involves tho acquisition of an extensive British possession! In regard to the Monroe doctrine, which is trotted out with cheerful alacrity on so many state occasions, we do not understand that it refers to an existing status of a flair s, but only to the attempt of a European power to acquiro now territory on this continent or to moddlo aggressively in tho affairs of any country not already belonging to it. Tho Monroe doctrino does not require the United States to undertako to expel European powers from American territory already owned by them, but only to prevent them from extending their American possessions. The former view would require us to drive Great Britain, Franco and Spain out of the West Indies, as well as England out of Canada. Wo are under ns strong bonds to Ieavo them alone in the possessions they now havens we are to prevent them from extending those possessions. The American people do not want Canada badly enough to engage In a war for it. When the time comes, as tho Journal believes it will, that n majority of the Canadian people earnestly and strongly desire annexation, it is probable that England will accept the inevitable, and either give her consent or agree to keep hands pff. If continental union is to come it will come in its own time and way. Wo should not try to force manifest destiny. Wo can afford to wait. II R. BTECHHAN'S A83UMPTI0NS, At the risk of tiring its readers, and certainly with tho effect of tiring itself, tho Journal prints another communication from Mr. Otto Stechhan containing a further installment of disjointed views concerning some of tho social and economic evils of the times. Like previous communications from Mr. Stechhan, this one abounds with wild assumptions, unsupported statements, false logic and wrong conclusions. Some of these may be briefly noticed for tho last time. As to tho assertion that a poor man cannot get justice in tho courts the Journal has nothing to add to what it has said before. Tho records of every court in tho land and the experience of all lawyers and of every person conversant with the facts prove that poor men do get justice in tho courts. If Mr. Stechhan doubts it let him, through malice, carelessness, negligence or the use of bad materials, inflict nn injury on tho poorest of his employes and await tho result. His attack on the courts and tho administration of justice is based on prejudice and ignorance. The press comes in for its share of abuse in the charge 'that tho miscarriage of justice is often -due to the fact that "money can bribo public opinion by nsing tho proper influence with the press." Vire shall make no pretense of treating this charge respectfully. It is simply false. There is no. instance on record in this country of the result of any trial, civil or criminal, having been influenced by a corrupt use of tho press. We will go further and say that the editorial opinions or expressions of no newspaper in the United States have ever boen purchased in any matter pending in a court of justice. He would bo a bold man who would approach tho editor or proprietor of any respectable paper with such a proposition. If Mr. Stechhan really believes they are accessible to bribery wo advise him to put on several suits of thick clothing before he makes the attempt. Editors are no .more corrupt than tho manufocturersof lounges. Mr. Stechhan dwells at some length on tho evils of our transportation system. That system is not perfect, but it is quite evident that Mr. Stechhan does not understand its evils nor how to remedy them. It is true that corn has, in one or two abundant years, been burned for fuel in Iowa and Kansas, but tho transportation system was not responsible for It. It was because there was a great surplus of corn, making it in some parts of those States cheaper than any other fuel. Tho same transportation system that Mr. Stechhan complains of prevails now that did when corn was burned in Iowa and Kansas, yet now corn is worth 43 cents u bushel and hogs 67.50 per hundred in Chicago, and railroad rates are not nearly ns high as they were in the corn-burning days. Nobody is burning corn now. A sufficient answer to all that Mr. Stechhan says in regard to tho transportation question lies in tho fact, evidently unknown to him, that railroad rates in this country, both freight and passenger, nro cheaper than in any other country in tho world, including tho countries where the government owns or controls the roads. The last edition (1S02) of Mulhall'a Dictionary of Sta

tistics, the best authority extant, gives I

tho following freight rates in different countries on a ton of goods per one hundred miles: Great Britain, $2.80; France, $'2.20; Germany, 1.C4; Russia, $2.40; Austria. $2.30; Italy, $2.50; Sweden, $'J.20; Denmark, $2.8S; Switzerland, S3.30; United States, $1.04. Those may not be tho rates at present, but they show the proportion. The difference in passenger rates in favor of tho United States is fully as groat. Freight rates in this country have been steadily declining for the last thirty years, and the tendency is Rtill downward. In 1855 tho New York Central charged $3.25 per ton per mile; in 18S5 it charged C3 cents, and the present rates are considerable less. Theso facts fthow that any attack on our railroad transportation system based on the assumption of high rates is utterly groundless. The American people are much more highly favored in this regard than any other people in tho world. The Journal does not assert that our transportation system is perfect or our railroad management free from abuses, but it believes tho railroads are entitled to justice, and the fact that tlnjy are giving tlio people better and far cheaper 1 service than is enjoyed by those of any other country is too important to be left out of an intelligent discussion of the subject. If American railroads are, as Mr. Stechhan asserts, "vast monopolies which are sucking the blood out of our vitals," what must be the condition of the inhabitants of European countries where the roads are partially or wholly, under government control and rates are from two to three times as high as they are in this country! The trouble with Mr. Stechhan is he mistakes his prejudices for facts and his whims for principles. WOMEN AS SCHOOL-TEACH EE3. ' V' In a letter appearing elsewhere in this paper. Professor Study, superintendent of the Richmond public schools, takes exception to some editorial comments made by tho Journal on nn address delivered by him at tho recent teachers' convention. Theso comments were based on the published report of his speech, and, of couiee, without thought of doing him injustice in any particular. In speaking of political and religious influences ns tending to hamper the usefulness of teachers and to shorten the tenure of their positions, it was naturally inferred that Professor Study had reference to the condition of affairs in schools with which he was best acquainted, namely, those of Richmond, and it is gratifying to be assured by him' that the Richmond school management is not controlled by such lofluences. Insofar as tho question of wages and women as teachers is concerned, it does not seem, according to Mr. Study's own showing, that the Journal's remarks were unjustified. With all his praise of women's work in tho schools, the impression is nt the same timo conveyed of his belief that women are not only responsible for tho low salaries that prevail, but for a certain deterioration, in the character of the schools. It is tho old and vexed problem of equal wages for equal work which disturbs him, and, possibly without intention, he gives tho idea that he doubts the ability of women to do equal work. Without entering into argument as to tho respective ability of men and women as instructors of youth, tho Journal must insist that Mr. Study has not proved his point in regard to tho lowering of salaries by the crowding of untrained women into the schools until he explains why it is that untrained men crude college graduates, possibly are almost invariably paid higher salaries from tho beginning than ore received by women who have the advantage of equal education and of both training and experience in addition. If, ns he fays, it is a matter of money, and not of ability, it is a matter controlled by school boards and not by the femalo teachers.' Tho latter do not ask for or willingly accept low wages. It is the business of school boards to use the money at their command to the best possible advantage of the public. If men are tho superior teachers they should employ them; if not, they should employ women and pay them'what they are worth, and not the little that necessity may compel them, to accept. The Journal does not believe that public opinion insists upon small salaries to teachers, but that limited funds, and in many cases the narrow ideas of school trustees, have reduced the limit and produced tho inequalities in rates of compensation. As for the. lack of training of which Mr. Study complains, it was undoubtedly the case in past years that half-educated girls too often obtained positions as teachers, but the higher standards which now prevail and tho increasing exactions of the schools make special preparation almost a necessity. Tho increasing number of normal schools aud their, crowded condition, year by year, show the eagerness of young men and women to profit bj their advantages. Concerning the young women who, after an average term of five years in school, give up teaching for matrimony, it may be supposed that the absence of proper personal reward or pecuniary incentive in their own work leads them to look with favor upon tho opportunity to share tho incomes of young men who receivo twico ns much as themselves for, equal labor. New Yohic city has just been given a drastic dose of Tammany government in a number of important local appoint ments made by Mayor Gilroy. Ono of theso is that of John J. Scnnnell as a commissioner of the lire department. Scannell is notorious as tho perpetrator of a cowardly murder which ho committed several years ago, escaping punishment therefor by feigning insanity and having himself sent to nn insanoasylum for a short time. Since then he has been on terms of intimacy with soruo of the most notorious law-breakers in Now York. Some of the other appointments are almost as bad. Tho Tribune says: Mayor Gilroy has plainly made up his mind to put the worst men in inmmany llull In the otlices in which they cad work the largest mi hief and evil. I he pros. tect before the popU of New York is cluomy. indeed. Vithsuch a bpenker of the AMifmbly at Albany as Sulzer. with such m Mayor as Mr. Gilroy lias now re

vealed himself, and with such appointments as those already made by the chief

execntive of the city and thoao which may bo expected hereafter, tho city of New i ork is to be for years in the bands of men who are certain to deepen her disgrace, to pillage her tretsnry. to plunder her tax payers, and to work Injury and outrage to her citizens. When things get to tho worst they sometimes mend. It was tho infamous regime of tho Tweed ring that led to a popular uprising that smashed it, and tho same thing may happen again. Meanwhile it is worthy of remark that the carnival of political corruption and misrule thatis afflicting the commercial metropolis of the country is duo to Democracy run to seed. It appears, after all, that Senator Turpie is not to be re-elected without opposition, and, if report bo true, the influence of President-elect Cleveland is to bo used in an effort to supplant hitn with John Gilbert Shauklin. 4The oldest Congressman in tho State" is quoted ns saying: "Mr. Cleveland told me some time ago that tho recommendation of Mr. Shauklin will go further, than that of all tho Congressmen combined," nnd that "Mr. Shnnklin will have more to say in . controlling tho patronage of the State than any other man." This declaration is being freely used among the statesmen of the Legislature, who either want appointments for themselves or their friends, and, though late in the field, Mr. Shauklin bids fair to become a formidable competitor of the junior Senator for the position. Mr. Shnnklin'a well-known position previous to the State and national conventions gives color of truth to tho "oldest Congressman's" statement. ' The Home Market Bulletin, of Boston, has received pamphlets and papers in tho French language designed for tho Canadian voters in this country, in which Catholics are implored to voto for Cleveland because of the course, pursued by Indian Commissioner Morgan, who Is charged with attempts to destroy tho Catholic schools among the Indians, for which the government pays. Thero is no evidence to show that these npreals come from persons connected with tho Catholic Church, but from Democratic committees. Not only did the Democratic managers supplement their free-trade sophistries by appeals to Anarchists by misrepresenting the Homestead trouble, but they surreptitiously stirred ud the smoldering embers of political strife. But for these leaders the days of retribution seem to be hastening on. They have queer ideas of civilization in some parts of the South. The leading merchant of Johnson City testifies that Bakersville, where tho recent battlo was located, is not surpassed by any town in the country of the same ejzo for civilization. . "The last riot at .that place," he says, "occurred seven years ago, when some five persons were killed." There has been no riot in Bakersville since, though there was ono four miles from there on last election day, in which several persons were killed. " With theso exceptions," says the leading merchant, "no unusual disturbances can be recalled." Bakersville and vicinity must be very civilized. An electric banjo-picker has been invented. The time will yet come when the am'rous swain can take his automatic guitar and phonograph, set them nnder the window of his heart's idol, turn on the motor and adjourn to some warm beer saloon while She is being serenaded to her heart's content Thr Ohio Leslslature has passed a law making it a felony to enter a racing-horso in a slower class than ins record entitles him to. Some able idiot ought to introduce a bill making it a penal orlense for a widower to dye his whiskers, or for a woman over twenty-five to wear a "false front." Chicago newspapers have been poking fun at tho academic caps and ffowns of the university professors. A university professor in Chicago is expected to take otl his coat, put on a pair of calico sleeve-protectors and hustle for all he is worth. A successful religions rovival is in progress at Terre Haute, under the lead of the Rev. James Small. Unliko the other Sin nil, he doc not seem to find it necessary to bill himself as "Jim." s By all means let the Senate be gowned, and then send Jerry Simpson. Jerry's pink tootsies peeping out from under a black Mother Hubbard would be worth going many miles to see. A xew shade of apple-green is named "Angelique," The mtimato relation of preen apples to angolic accessions was recognized by the funny men long ago. Tiikkh is nothiiiK now; not even the dnde. The embalmed head of an Aztoc was dug op a few days ago in southern Texas. It contained no brains. The newest application of the pneumatic tire is to baby carriages. The pueamatio apparatus of tho baby will remain untired. as heretofore. A TOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. GoLimx shoes are worn by a Shetland pony belonging the Shah of Persia. This expensively-shod animal is only twelve and a half inches high. By tho will of Mrs. Emilv T. Echert more than .r00,OCO has beeu distributed among nearly every known institution in Philadelphia for the relief of poverty and distress. It is customary throughout Spain for the waiters of cafes to fill a glass of wine. or liquor so that it overilows upon the saucer. This custom, in which it is desired to show an appearance of liberality, is called "the loot bath." LiTTLK General Mahone is yet regarded as the most picturesque fignre in Washing, ton life. The name old-style slouch felt hat, stockings which never cost hitn less than t'la pair, and trousers rnt lare and gathered in plaits at the waist-band, distinguish his "make-up." Tr.x girls m a composition class in a Cincinnati school were instructed by their teacher to write a telegram such as would be suitable to send home in vuse of a railway accident while traveling. One of tho firls wrote: "Dear lV.pa Mama is killed, am lu the refreshment-room." Phil Amouic. according to the Chicago papers, has a hundred dollars placed on Lis desk every morning, which he distributes in charity durinir the course of the day. His bill f r loncheon often runs tip as hUh as 40 cents, while soiuh of his clerk spend nearly a dollar. Uut then they don't have to drop a hundred dollars a day in charity. It is seldom that a fashiouablo London residenco Is destroyed by fire, notwithstanding they are nearly all heated by

means of open fire-places. When a fire duos occur in ono o' them tho cause is not in defectivo lines or overheated furnaces, but owing to live coats falling from the riro-place npon the lloor. as was th cane with the burning of Lady Beatrice Orde's house on Wednesday. M. Tikard, the French Minister of Finance, was born in Geneva, and began life) in the jewelry trade, It was to extend this business that some forty years ago he went to Paris and opened a small shop In the Boulevard Sebastopol, where ho has since remained. Since 171 ho has held various otlires. and it will be remembered that he was Minister of Commerce and Premier duriug the late exhibition in Paris, holding that otlico for tho second time. Tin: Castle of Circy, where Voltaire spent so much time in the society of his bluestocking friend, the Marchioness DuChatelet, has just bean sold for $500,000. The buyer is a rich French manufacturer, M. Viellard-Mizeon. The Pall Mall Gazette remarks: "The bedroom and study used by the author of the 'Henriade.' and familiar from the piquant description left us by Mme. De Gratligny, still exist In the library and picture gallery are several inscrintions in verse, composed by Voltaire, extolling the pleasures of study and seclusion.

BUBBLES IN T11K Aill lie Knew -Iftngley. Watts Pretty good story Blngley told this afternoon. Potts Yes. Too good to be new. A Man of Worth. "Why Is Oldsoko strutting around so of late!" Well, since tho riso in alcohol, he figures that he has increased In value about 15 per cent." An Aggruvated Offente. lie nut surely it was not such an awful crime just to steal ono kiss? She You do not seem to appreciate tho situation. You not only stole the kiss, but yoa deprived me of tho plcasuro of giving It to you. True Terror. 'Did you ever see agbostr "Once," Were you scaredl" Was I scared! Was II My false teeth were la a glass, on a table three feet away from the bed, and they actually rattled so loud that they woko tho neighbors." Not Impertinent Cariosity. "Mary Ann," asked the mistress of tho rest ef the household, "may I ask what time you expect to return to-nieht?" 'Certainly, mum," answered Mary Ann, with suspicious suavity. "Ye may ask all yo likes, though It's not mcself that sees any reason for tellin' yez." "Oh, it was not through impertinent curiosity that I Inquired," the frifchtoned woman explained. "I thouzht soma of your callers might come in, and if you'were to be back soon I could take them into the parlor and entertain them until you returned." COMMENT UX CABINET GOSSIP, It is hardly to be believed that Mr. Cleveland would have ottered the Treasury portfolio to Carlisle if the latter had not avowed his conversion to the cause of honest money. Boston Advertiser. Tin: solid support of one's own State is very useful to an aspirant for Cabinet honors, but must not be too noisy, Mr. Cleveland seems to have "views" on tho enbjeot of brass bands. St" Louis Post-Dispatch. 1 Whack at Governor Francis. Bkx Cable says: "1 would not accept any office in the ift of the President." The dear people will not be fooled into believing that President Cleveland has slipped his Cable, lienjamm evidentl is making a big bluti'for appointment, or else he is posing us the chief exhibit of the world's fair. Chicago Dispatch. IIknkv Villahd is again bulletined for a seat in Cleveland's Cabinet, and a new man from California named Foote is now distributing the guenses. Dan Lamont is still understood to be permanently settled for tho Navy portfolio aud the postmastergeneralship. He may also be given the secretaryship of state. Xew York Advertiser. Skxatok GitAYis not going into the confusion Cabinet of Cleveland. We begin to fear there will not be any Gray in the Cleveland Cabinet. 13ayard is to be called to publio life, but not to the Cabinet. That is, ho is to go away. Hon. Isaac Pusey Gray should be minister to Peru the highest position (Quito on the Andes) in the gilt of tho government. Brooklyn Standard-Union. PACTS ABOUT PENSIONS. Interesting Statistics lrom the Latfst State ment of Commissioner Kacra. The official statement of Pension Commission ltaum, to the close of the year 1622 adords come interesting facts regardiug pensions. The number of pensioners on the roll Feb. 23, 1&9. just before the mauc uration of General Harrison, was 4T2J20. On June SO, 1880, the end of that fiscal year, the number was 489,75, coating, after the back payments were up, Sfl4.240.562. The total number of pensioners June SO. 18H2, was 6T0.068, costing 8llfi.879.867 Deryear. From June SO, 1602, to Nov. 0, lb$2, the number of pensions was increased tot20,8t5. During the live months from June SO to Nov. 0, 1S9, 5S.7GG original aud oO.CO'5 increase pensions were issued. The fact that the net gain in those five months was 44,817 shows that many pensioners are dropping oil. The pending applications number 77C,(iS7, of whioh 1&J.'J6'J are applicants under the act of June 27. 18.M, 19s.2;yi ou service since March 4. 1SG1. and 143.37S art additional to prior applications under former acta, and 237,12 i are for lucrcase. The total nnmbrof cases on the completed liles is 150,070. and the Commissioner announces emphatically that there "is no accumulation of adjudicated claims upon which eertiticates have not been issned," as "certificates are issued noon claims immediately upon their allowance ana forwarded to the proper pension agent for payment as soon as isiuiod." Dec. 10 ell cases on tho completed files for the Western State were given out for adjudication to the following dates: Invalid. June fi. 1S'.2: widows, December, 1892; increase, January, 18'. 2. . The average monthly rate of original pensious granted from Feb. 14. 1H1, to Nov. lHtl, was $.'.2, and the average increase under the general law was S4.S1. and under the law of June 27, 1890. 54 cents. An additional rate of $.3i per nmnth was given in fil.CPO cases, under tho act of June 27. 1800, of Sl.GO. THE IUUGGS CAE. Probable lien tilt of Ilveraal of Ills Case , !r the General Assembly. Christian Union. It is not. therefore, probablo that the decision in either tho Smith or the Briggs cae will bo accepted us hual. If the decision of the New York Presbytery should be reversed, if the CJural Asmbly Mhould decide that Dr. Briggs cannot remain in the Presbyterian ministry while he holds and teaches his views, it would seem that aNlisruption of the church must almost inevitably follow. For these views are held and taught more or less distinctly and positively by all the faculty of Union Theological Seminary, including ProteMsor Prigga's succrsn.jr in the chair of Hebrew Prof. Francis Brown by a considerable number of the faculties of other Presbyterian theologioal seminaries, by not a few of its most eminent preachers, and by a large proportion, if not an absolute majority, of the gra iuatci of the newschool theological seminaries of the pant ten or litteeii ye tits. If, therefore. Dr. Brings is ultimately condemned, either thes must go out individually into other freerer denominations. or in a body to lorni again a newschool Presbyterian Church, or remain in the present body ly sacri tlcing their convictions and keeping silence respecting the natuie, constitution and authorship of the books of the Hibln. which latter is an alternative not to be anticipated. We have only to add that, in our judgment, the thanks of the elrv of nil denomination a

are doe to Professor Bripgs forhn straightforward and manly defense, conducted without retraction or evasion, and winning, both from friends and adversaries, admiration for itsoaar.igo and ftcholamhip. It would have been easy for him to have withdrawn from the Presbyterian Chun a and have retained his professorship in the seminary. He has been defending tho rights of scholarship, not only in the Pr.'sbytertan Church, but in every ChriatUn body, and they have found In him a worthy representative.

SUPERFLUOta AM) OUT OF PLACK. The Proposed National Coiuralnlon on Accident in Mine. Albert WiUiams, Jr., iu EnKljeertn Msffarlna. That able exponent of the coal-mining in dustry, the CoLury Engineer, troutfj? urttes the organization of a national coin mission on accidents in mines, and cites ths examples set by Great Britain. France, Belgium, Prussia and Austria as precedents. The commissions in each of these countries have now completed the work assigned to them. In each of these commissions the membership comprises men of high professional standing, and the work iu part was in the nature of original rciearch and experimentation. It would be absurd to assume that good has not been done iu this way; that tho men composing tho British commission, lor instance, after seven years of patient hearing 'of testimony and of study of tho conditions causing mine accidents, and the safeguards against snch accidents, should not have produced something of practical value in the shape of suggestions for the improvement Cf tho mining laws. That the outcome has, at least in one instance, bad a -good eilect is shown by the new mines-regulation act of Great Britain, which is conceded to be an important advance upoa former legislation in that country, the same is true of tho work of the commission formed by the governments of the continent of Europe. Now the very fact that an immense mass of recorded occurrences, experiments, expert opinions, theories and practical suggestions has been accumulated and brought into available lorm may betaken as a sound reason why our government, instead of following in the footsteps of other governments, should not repeat this work, and rake over ground already so thoroughly exploited. The technical details of coal mining, and. also, to a largo extent, the natural conditions in the mines do not differ so widely in one country from another that what is learned in one cannot be applied in another. Here, it may be suggested, is an excellent opportunity for some authority and none can be better equipped for the task than the Colliery Engineer itself, with its competent corps of contributors to undertake the systematizing of all the material now under our noses, with a view to establisning a standard to be referred to iu the management of collieries and for the guidance of law-makers. Let such a compendium bo prepared by individual effort, by the en gineering societies, or, better yct.by such a journal as tho Colliery Engineer, aud we fatioy it will be accepted asquiteasautbornative as any report emanating from a government commission. It is an opportunity for useful work in the profession and by the profession where it properly belongs. But this would not satisty the Colliury Engineer. It insists that '"the United States government should also establish a commission andeuip it with means and facilities (that is, a big appropriation) to carry on similar (parallel! investigations, and make, a similar (duplicate) report," and, by implication, in describing the foreign reports, to enter upoa a "thorough research into the causes of accidents, so as to enable the formation of mine laws that would be as effective as possible in their prevention: " to make such investigations as would enable them to make positive and comprehensive reports on the various causes of accidents, and from these investigations and experiments formulate reports in the nature of supitestions that would be inolnded in too varions mine laws' Surely a praiseworthy object. The main and decisive objection to the method advocated lor accomplishing it is that it won't work; that it would materialize if iat experience is any criterion in the establishment of another national junketing committee, with the same delays, with the saino figureheads, with the , usual Jong-. winded reports written by subordinates and signed by high officials; and with an utter absence of such authority as is attached to official dicta in more csntraltzed countries. In short, tho means proposed is not only superlluons, but it doesn't apply to actual conditions, assuming the work to be well done. Faded as Their Lives Faded. New York Press Lovers of the mysterious will be interested m this authentlo story. Two years ago the portraits of President Harrifon, Mrs. Hariison and Dr. Scott were reproduced in a group on glass. Several copies were made. Each portrait was colored and touched up by the artist who took the group. One of these pictures was given to an.ar relative of the President, who lives in Baltimore. The portraits were all good likenesses, and ehe prized them very highly. Here is where tho mysterious part comes in. About three months before Mrs. Harrison's death the colors in her picture on tho class commenced to lade. When she died only the head w as visible, and that faintly. Then the same phenomenon was observed in Dr. Scott's portrait. It began to grow dimmer and dimmer nntil only the head remained. Dr. Scott died within a few weeks of bis daughter. The curious part of the matter is that President Harrison's portrait stands out as clear and strong as it did on the dav it was finished. The same colors were used ou all these portraits and there is noapparent reason why ono should not last as long as tho other. Who can explain it? Want It AbolUbed. Cory don Republican. Democrats are signing petitions praying the Legislature to abolish the office of couuty assessor, again following in the footsteps of the Bepublicau party. Tho Republicans of Indiana from the iirst opposed the creation of that olfice, because it is a useless, unnecessary and expensive appendage to the tax system of tho State. A county assessor is of no earthly necessity. Ho does no materia! good, lie is not woxth three cents to the tax-payers, yet he draws S3 nor day from their pockets. It Is the so-called new tax law which provides for thi otlioe, the very law which the Democratic leaders of tho State pronounoo a model tax law. And now they want to get rid of the incubus. Let the Republican members of the Legislature vote to abolish thootliooof county assessor. Prayer for a Legislature. Denver Special. Dean Peck's prayer in tho House to-day caused an uproar that shook the building. He said: "We shall pry especially for tho majority of this House. We hope that they will be hotter than the last Legislature, cr else that they may not have a majority of one. Wo are told to pray for our enemies, and we de so, so far as they need our prayers, and ve hope all party lines may be covered up; and we pray for the Populists and Democrats, and we hope that they will bo resigned to their fate. We thank God lor allowing us to live in this glorious country, ami we hope now that all the offices are tilled there will be harmony. May God bless us all." Vaiuo of Our Free Imjirt. Cblcaso Journal. During the eleven months ending with Novemler last the total value of imported articles was c05.75J.Gl. of which those subjected to duty amounted to S.'iCO.OT.NVj, and those entered free of duty to l J5.t'f;J,V2 That in. very much more than half of all our imports came in duty free. This will be a revelation to very many, who. drawimr their information from tree-trade oracles, have imibeii the idea that nearly, if notquite.everything imported payswhat Cleveland calls a tax to Uncle Sam. WMltertua'f Opinion of Cleveland. Drtrolt 'iritruie. Hcnrv Watterson ays that when a man has evidenced untitness for anything else is time enough to send him to Washington. The keeper of the stur-vod goddess evidently has not chauced his opinion of Cleveland yet Onr-Mii-i Dictation a Had Thing. Milwaukee 8ut uu!. Tho predorninanco which . Mr. drover Cleveland seeks to obtain gver hU party is too great lor his party's good. So much inlluetice would be no wholesome even if it belonged to a man of ability and ideas. Cru.l .Sttfy Nation. MrmjhU Appeal. A vslscche. A headless boy has bn born in Kanssa. Now vh- -ri the i'opnlUta nre dying outl