Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1894 — Page 4

1PIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURIUL, IIOITDAY, DECEIIBISIl 24, IoD-1.'

THE DAILY JOURNAL MONDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1S94.

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TUB IXDIAXAPOL.IS JOl'RXAL Can be found at the following pine PA K I s A mencan ti chance In Paris, 3 6 Boulerard Capnclnes. XCEW YOltK Gilsey Honee, Windsor Hotel and Astor Ilons. P1I1LADF.LP1IIA A. P. Keuiuie, cor. Lancaster ave. and lis rin z st. CHICAGO Palmer Ilcnme. Auditorium Hotel and 1. O. .News Co., 91 Ailams street. CINCINNATI J. B. Ilawley & Co., 154 Vine St. LOUISVILLE-C.T. Deerinjr. nortLest corner of Thlnl tBit Jefferson ts., autl LouiavUie Book Co., S3 Fourth ave. 251. LOUlS-Uuiua Kews Company, Union Depot WAS II INCHON, D.C. Rlggs House. Ebbltt Hoiiw, Wizard's Hotel and tho Washington News Lxcluuge. Hh strral, bet, I'enn. ave. and V street. The Carlisle currency bill was brought into the House on a litter and canrled out in a waste basket. . No one has been so rash in recent days as to remark that "the Democratic party Is the party of reform." "Will this Congress adjourn without an attempt to increase the revenues of the government so that every month will not show a deficit? . Secretary Carlisle's original currency bill was doomed to an early death in any event, but SDrirger's explanation of it undoubtedly hastened its demise. If Mr. Watterson should continue to make New England dinner speeches a half dozen years the Scotch-Irish would eclipse both the Puritan and the Cavalier. Why should the House waste its time over a . currency bill which the Senate will not pass, and which, if passed, would result in displacing a national currency with State bank issues? The "flexible currency" which would be secured by permitting banks to Issue notes when they have no coin with which to redeem them means, under the Springer bill, the 'flooding of the country with paper money which would become worthless In the hands of the holder. Advices from Rome state that the Pope has finished an encyclical specially Intended for "the United States, which will be promulgated about the end of the year. It will deal at length with the religious situation and the operations of the Catholic Church in this country. ..: Even the old Democratic party which controlled Congress in the days of James Buchanan voted a loan to make It possible for the administration to tide over a deficiency in the treasury, but this Democratic Congress seems not to have the capacity to undertake to provide for a deficiency of $70,000,000 a year. , What President Ingafis nad to say about public extravagance and corruption was timely, but he could supplement it with some opinions regarding the destruction of values in railroad property by such performances as that which has ruined the Atchison, the Northern Pacific and the Reading systems which would be Interesting. It is fortunate for Secretary Carlisle that bur Constitution does not, like that of Great Britain, give the head of the Treasury Department a seat in the national legislature and require him to rise in his place' and in fair and real debate answer attacks on his measures. Were it so his currency hobby would have soon carried him out of office. Inuulry at the Navy Department develops the fact that there is no disposition to station a war ship at the Hawaiian islands for the protection of American interests, and inquiry at the State Department develops the fact that there Is no disposition to protect American citizens in Nicaragua or in Turkey. It is an un-American administration. When Secretary Carlisle promulgated his currency plan and his supporters pronounced it perfect. At the close of the first day's debate In the House it was completely riddled and had to be withdrawn for repairs. The second bill embodies a lot of new guesses on the subject, crude suggestions of Carlisle and Springer, and will probably be as short lived as the first. About tho only result of the present efforts of the currency tlnkerers will be to dispose of the Carlisle bill, the Springer bill and other quack plans and clear the way for the enactment of a well-digested bill by the next Congress, under which the country will continue to enjoy a safe, sound and uniform currency. Nothing beneficial in the way of financial legislation can be expected from a Democratic Congress. A Canadian newspaper congratulates Its readers in the province of Ontario that the Gorman law will give them $34,000 more for their horses, J2SS.0OO more for their sheep, 5140,000 more for their wool, JCSS.OOO more for their barley and. J1S3.000. more for their hay than they received for the same quantities under the McKinley law. This means that ;343.000 which went Into the treasury under the McKinley law will go into the pockets of Canadians. A communication in this issue relative to the policy to be pursued in regard to the State University presents the matter In a practical light. If Indiana Is to have a State University which will meat the requirements of Buch an institution the people must be prepared to contribute a large amount of money and at the same time Ignore the hljher institutions of learning in t 5 Cicio. To build vd cuch i State

university as that of Michigan would be at the expense of 'others which are now doing as good work, to say the least, as the State University. Would that be right? Another point which the writer does not consider is the necessity of such an Institution in Indiana when it has a dozen or more colleges. With a university at Chicago liberally endowed and other well-established institutions in Baltimore and California and a new one in Washington, would it not be a great undertaking for Indiana to establish a university which could compete with all these richly endowed and established schools for patronage? To fall short of these institutions, which have cost millions of dollars, would be to make the university little better than It now is. JOHN BURNS, 31. P. John Burns. M. P.. who is making a flying trip through this country to see the worst of it. must occupy so much of the time in talking that he can have little in which to gain information. ,As . a loyal but prejudiced Briton he desires to see the worst in this country and compare it with the same in England to our disadvantage. The poverty and squalor of the London slums, which candid English writers have shown to be worse than anything In this country, Mr. Burns declares to be. less horrible than what he has seen in a few hours in New York and Chicago. He rails at the Vanderbllts and the Goulds in the United States as the results of monopolistic systems, and declares that there Is nothing like it In monarchical England, where the mass of the soil , is owned by a privileged class which holds within its grasp the most hopeless agricultural tenantry outside of Russia. The Vanderbilts are millionaires largely because the value of a great trunk line of railway has quadrupled since the war, while the cost of transportation over it has fallen CO per cent, during that period. The Goulds are millionaires because the elder wrecked railroad properties and consolidated them, ruining original Investors, but promoting the Interests of producer and consumer by much cheaper rates of transportation. Have the landlords of Great Britain, with. their leisure clasp, which lives off of the land and the hopeless tenantry, done as much incidentally for the masses as several of our. railway millionaires? Again, if; as Mr. Burns declares, the condition of the British laborer is superior to that, of the American why have 52,474 Immigrants come to the United States from the United Kingdom during the period of unparalleled hard times which covered the first nine months of 1SD4, and why, during the ten years- ending with 1803, did 1,330,414 British subjects leave the United Kingdom to find homes and employment in thi3 country? Such facts as these make the statements of Mr. Burns regarding the superiority of the condition of the British laborer Very absurd. But there is one topic, and a very important v one, upon which we can all learn much from Mr. Burns. He is a municipal reformer, and he knows about good city, government. He knows thoroughly the system which has made Birmingham and Glasgow models of municipal government. He has not said much on the subject, but what he has said Is significant. If he would give the facts he would tell us that in the cities which have the best rule in Great Britain the property owner, who pays the taxes, controls municipal affairs; that all that the cities above named have . they got before suffrage was broadened. If Mr. Burns would but give us the processes by which good streets, adequate lighting and .. an abundant water supply have been obtained he would meet with the opposition of those alleged labor leaders who object to having the work of cities done by contract. If the thousands of ignorant foreigners who come to our large cities did not vote we might do better in municipal affairs as well, perhaps, in time, as British cities would have done if they had begun with the extended suffrage which now exists in Great Britain. It is unfortunate that Mr. Burns has not given more attention to the topic about which he is informed and had less to say about things concerning which he Is ignorant 3uch things, for instance, as the venerable He that "the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.' Until the free-trade catastrophe came upon us the wage earners of this country were selling the only commodity which has been increasing steadily in value since 1S60. namely, labor of all kinds. All the necessaries

of life have fallen during that period from 23 to 40 per cent., but labor has advanced from 25 to 40 per. cent. The wage earners of the United States have 510 invested in' savings banks, loan associations and -homes where th British laborer has less than 1. In the face of such facts John Burns, M. P., is talking nonsense. POSSIRLK GOOD OUT OF liVIL. Good sometimes comes out of evil. The disclosures of municipal corruption in New York are so appalling to assume the proportions of a national scandal. They will attract the attention of the civilized world much as the Panama canal disclosures in France did, and will be eagerly 6eized upon by our enemies abroad as proof of the rottenness of American government and ' society. The shame and disgrace will have to be borne as patiently as may be, for there is no denying that the evidence reveals a degree of municipal corruption unparalleled lit history. , But out of this evil and disgrace good may come, and probably will. It is likely to emphasize as nothing has before the necessity of municipal reform and establishing and maintaining a higher standard, of political morals and responsibility in city governments. It is likely also to prove a severe blow to the sooils system in city governments and strengthen the sentiment in faVor of conducting them as nearly as possible on a nonpartisan and business basis. The 'growth of Tammanyism in New York and the corresponding growth of corruption to an extent that has finally brought disgrace on the American name has kept even pace with the growth of the sentiment that tolerated the running of the city government as a political machine. With this idea firmly established and Tammany in control the appetite for spoils and plunder grew by what it fed upon until finally it becacs Insatiable end the wbol city cov-

ernment came to be an organization for the promotion and protection of robbery. Now that the machine has been smashed it can never.be restored. New York will have a better .form of government and better administration than she has ever had 'before, and while it may not bol possible to do away entirely with party politics, the people will never again allow the city government to be run as a political machine. The spirit of municipal reform. will spread to other cities; indeed, is already doing-so, and the net result of the ? present scandal may be a general advance In the methods of municipal government and a distinct improvement in municipal morals. N

If there are any timid souls who fear that the Constitution may slip a cog or that harm may come to the Republic while the President is duck hunting on the South Carolina coast they should remember that Private Secretary Thurber Is still on deck. Probably there is only one other person in the country so consecrated to duty, so willing to get up in. the night, as it were, to save the country as Mr. Thurber, and that is his distinguished chief. There is reason to believe that the private secretary fully appreciates the weight of his responsibility as acting President. A Congressman who visited the White House on business a few days ago remarked to the secretary that he looked harassed. "No doubt," was the reply, "but I think any one would look harassed who had a constituency of 70,000,000 people." There is reason to fear that the country does not fully realize what a treasure it has in Thurber. A Journal reader asks if it is not a defect of the laws which makes it possible to reduce the gold reserve in the treasury. It could not be done without the provision of the resumption act, which made the greenbacks as good as gold by providing a fund for their redemption. That law. however, was not defective from Jan. 1, 1879, until it came to pass that the government revenues were less than its expenditures. If there were a surplus , in the treasury the government could protect the gold reserve, but, being obliged to use the greenbacks which it redeems with gold to pay current expenses, they ar brought to the treasury again for gold redemption. The only wray to get rid of the defect in the law is to. increase the revenues of the government so that there will be a surplus and provide for the gradual retirement of the greenbacks. DUnilLES IN TUB AIR. High Grnde Poetry. Hungry Higsins Say, is that poetry you are readin' there? It looks like it from here. Weary Watkins It not only looks like poetry, pardner, but it is poetry. It's one of the Christmas bills of fare at the Hostile Hotel. Those Women. "We are not very rich," said the new married lady, "but, oh, we are so happy." "I thought you would be," cooed the unmarried lady. "In fact, that hateful Maud Biggins said you had to be happy, because you would be so poor that you would not even have anything to quarrel .about." Up to Date. "You can't act a little bit," said the manager -with brutal frankness. "If J didn't know what you were trying to do I would bo totally unable to tell what you were driving at." "It is evident, sir," replied the disappointed aspirant, "that you have not the least idea, of modern art. I am an impressionist, sir." ' , Would Like to Meet Him. "OI wud like to be up a nice, quiet alley for the space av wan minute or so," remarked Mr. Grogan, "wld the felly Oi sint a quarther to to find out how to mek me wages last." "Fwat did he tell yez?" asked Mr. Hogan. "He sint me a postal carrd tellln me thot the way to mek the wages be last was to do the worrk for thim flrrst." It. L. K., Morrlstojvn, Jnd.: The Republican party never passed any temperance law in Indiana as a party measure. The prohibitory law of 1S35 was passed by what was known as the Psople's party or the Fusion party, elected by a combination of Know-nothings, Prohibitionists and antislavery Democrats, having a majority in both houses. It was voted against solidly by what was known as the old-time Democratic party. That law was annulled by u Democratic Supreme Court in less than six months after its going Into effect, and the State was for three years and a half without any laar whatever on the subject. In 1830 a license law was passed, but not as a party measure. Republicans and Democrats voting promiscuously for it. In 1873, both branches being Republican, the Baxter law was passed, but not as a party measure. Democrats and Republicans voting for or against it without regard to party lines, more Republicans than Democrats voting for.it. and more Democrats than Republicans voting against It. In 1875, the Democrats' being in a maJvlty in both houses, that law twas repealed, and the present license law, -Ahlch was dictated by the saloon interest, and written by Senator Turpie as their attornsy, was passed as a party measure, the Democratic party at the preceding election making the repeal of the Baxter law a part of their platform. Robert Louis Stevenson is said to have expressed a fear that his popularity as a writer was waning and is quoted as saying that he had smaller, gifts than any other man of letters In the world." An exchange, In commenting on this, doubts the speaker's sincerity on the theory that. he must have understood his own genius and have known that it was equal to all demands. This is undoubtedly a wrong view to take. Mr. Stevenson, without question, spoke, with all honesty. Genius is proverbially modest, but there is another element than modesty connected with . such expressions of selfdepreciation.' It seems to be a common experience with men of great talent, especially those who are writers, to feel that what they do is not of themselves, but from a source outside that they are but the spokesmen, the mouthpieces, for a power above and beyond themselves. 'They have a keen consciousness of their own limitations and an uncertainty as to the continuance of the ability to speak acceptably which gives them a humility that others, acquainted only with their success, cannot comprehend. It is a queer conceit, but there is no proof that they may not be right. The public, however, will continue to make its own estimates and to wonder at the man of genius who speaks doubtfully of his own powers. ""SBBBSSSSIMMBiBMBBSS I The alleged sensational discovery recently reported from a town In New York, by which the form of a murderer was found revealed on the retina of his victim's eye, has gone the vay of many other shortlived sensation?. The local scientists profess much disappointment that the premature removal of the deceased woman's eye from the body prevented a verification of the discovery and the probable identification of tha raurderer. Thu tory belongs to tb

class of sensations which credulous people ar? wont to enlarge upon. The! statement that the image of the object last looked upon is Imprinted on the retina of a person suddenly killed has oeen made before, but never verified, and never will be. No physical impression of external objects Is made on the retina o the, eye. The sensation of sight or the .'act of seeing consists in the transmission of certain' impressions to the brain through nerve fibers. The impression on the retina is ' momentary, and is only retained so long, as the eye dwells oh the object. In this, at least, it is literally "true that death ends alL "Trilby" is In a fair way to enjoy a renewed popularity or, at least, to be In increased demand. Two Philadelphia ministers have requested that the book" be taken from the public liursxy shelves because of what they 'are -pleased to consider its Immorality, and at least one New York preacher, supported by the Social Purity Society, Is protesting against the book. Iaturally. this will advertise Mr. Du Maurler's delightful work In a new direction and people who have not thought of reading it will make hasie to buy and find out for themselves how naughty it Is. The other and numerous people who read it through and never dreamed that It was Immoral will continue to wonder what sort of minds the critical preachers possess-that they can detect evil ,where surely none was meant. Nevertheless, such unpleasant minds will assist the dollars to roll into the author's pocket. 1 CHRISTMAS PARAGRAPHS.

Aching' hearts go with empty stockings. Syracu.se Standard,,, . About twelve inches of snow Just before Christmas, gentlemen of the weather bureau, please. Boston Globe. , " People who forget the poor at Christmas time are usually themselves -forgotten when summer comes. St. Joseph (Mo.) News. "Don't talk shop" is a very good household , maxim at any other time than the week before Christmas. New York. Recorder. ' Santa Claus may be a wonderful man, but if he can do the ' sleigh and reindeer act such weather as this he will go on record as having performed a miracle. Buffalo Times. "I've been waiting here an hour for my parcel," said Jones; "what's the matter? A tie-up in your bundle department?" "There is just," said the clerk "a good many of 'em ca-ash!" New York Press. The "old" man thinks of ' Christmas now The jug: is on the shelf; He fills the children's stockings full, And then gets full himself. ' Atlanta Constitution. To give is far more blessed Than to receive, 'tis writ, But small must be the blessing If you go In debt for it. The principle in giving Is to pay just as you go, .For. sad will be the ending Of a year begun with "Oh!" Columbus (O.) Dispatch. ; POLICE CORRUPTION. Jn spite of .the large number of coppers In New York, there Is evidently great need of change. Boston Globe. It Is said that a New York museum manager Is about to "offer a reward for an hon(est police official. St. Bouis Post Dispatch. Throughout all the large cities saloonkeepers and proprietors of disorderly houses are not buying many Christmas presents for police captains this year. Chicago Dispatch. It is believed that a photograph of the retina of the Tiger's eye, if taken shortly after Nov. C would show a bespectacled man in clerical garb pointing to the eighth commandment. New York Advertiser. The Schmittberger evidence emphasizes the imperative necessity for the passage of a bill,. as soon as possible after the inauguration of the new State government, giving the Mayor power of removal New York Press. . ' .. The men accused of these awful mlsdeedj must be brought Jto trial, and that at once. Not a moment Should" be lost in arraigning them at the ,bar of outraged law and justice. If they are guilty, their place is in Sing Sing. New, York Recorder. No time should be lost by the" Legislature in sweeping away this police .board and putting the department under an administrative head or heads that will secure a police administration and service which cannot be corrupted or demoralized. New York Herald. ' JOHN I11R.S AXD CHICAGO. This country had a very high opinion of John Burns before it knew him. Buffalo Times. ' Everybody must intensely regret that Mr. John Burns is so sorry about the headlines In American newspapers. Brooklyn Standard Union. : Although John Burns refuses to change his declaration: that "Chicago Is a pocket edition of hell." he Is willing to admit that it is an edition de luxe. Chicago Dispatch. Chicagoans are raving mad at John Burns.' because he: called Chicago a. pocket edition of hell. They naturally resent having their city belittled. St. Louis Post Dispatch. . John Burns must think of settling in the Windy City and running for alderman.. He tickles the local vanity by saying he is simply scared by Chicago's tall buildings. New York Recorder. Chicago resents as an insult the description John Burns has given of the wickedest city of America as a pocket edition of hell.-Mr. Burns" has a faculty of hitting nails' on the head. He must have "been raised as a horseshoer. Omaha Bee. Alas, for the folks in Chicago, They surely are not feeling well. On their city Burns puts an embargo: Its "a pocket edition of hell." Louisville Times. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. In Santa Teresa Gallurl, Sardinia, there died the other day a peasant woman, Magdalena Pisclottu. Ill years old. Sixty grandChildren followed her to the grave. Miss Frances E. Willard Is the third woman to have -the right to write Doctor of Laws after her name. Maria Mitchell, the astronomer, and Amelia B. Edwards, the Egyptologist, were the others. v ' Nearly all the comic valentines, found in almost every part of the world, are made in Williamsburg, N. Y., here the work goes on from one end of the year to the other. The- factory turns out more than 14.000,000 of the "comics" in a year. Miss E. V. Askew, of Tampa, Fla., is the champion stenographer and typewriter. She has just finished a 100-page legal-cap document for the State Supreme Court, in which there Is not erasur2, omission or mistake In punctuation. There is nothing askew in a record like that. : M. Worth, the famous costumer. considers that to a very great extent he owes his success to the fact that hs- is, and always has bean! a close student of nature. All his effects and color combinations come from real life, and even a ploughed field has given him an idea for a brown skirt delicately furrowed in artistic style. RUth and Esther Cleveland will have a Christmas tree just like other little folks. It will take root in the White House parlor, and the pleasures of the affair will be enJoyed by quite a company of wae people. The President and Mrs. Cleveland have invited, a few friends to the White House Christmas dinner. Mrs. Cleveland will not ba "in society" this winter. It will be, gratifying to patriotic citizens to know that after many delays the birthplace of George Washington, at Wakefield, Va., is to be marked by a suitable monument. Secretary of State Grssham has accepted a design, selected from thirty-three offered in competition, and In due time a granlts" shaft will be erected of sufficient height to be seen by travelers on the Potomac river, three and-a half miles distant. The number of Lady Bachelors of Art is' increasing'quickly. On the B. A, list cf the London University,, which", has Just been published, appear the names of eighty-one women who have been successful in obtaining their degree. There is a rooted convlc-' tion in the mtnd3 cf rr-.ny people that a la?y with a drrc? r j:r.r.ct bs of an appearance 'Ahich rr'.t her to china la tphtres wt-j i . c;:o email ac3

pretty. In order that this may be combattcd it would b? well for some enterprising illustrated journal to publish portraits of the entire flock of B. A.'s of course, not in their gowns and mortar-boards. , The highest amount that Col. Robert G. Ingersoll ever received for delivering a slngla lecture was $3,600, in Chicago. At another time, in the same city, he received $2,400. His receipts for a Sunday night lecture in New York, 70 per cent, of the gross receipts, amount to from $1,200 to $1,500. In. small cities the receipts on this basis sometimes figure as low as $500, but his lectures In large places bring the average up to $1,000 a night. The Colonel's liberal fashion of entertaining prevents him from becoming as rich as mcst men would be ith his opportunities, and, while he Is financially well-to-do, his worldly possessions are not large in proportion to his income. - An old song says that Britons never, never And boasts about Britannia, the ruler of the . waves; But I've just crossed the stormy sea and I regret to state That if Britannia ruled the waves she didn't rule 'era straight. Hartfora Courant. He wrote his love a letter. And poured out all his soul In language too ecstatic. Too ardent to control. But now he -wishes sorely He had been more acute, For tha lawyer read the letter In a breach of promise suit. Somervllle Journal. SHREDS AXD PATCHES. It is the nudity of the live wire that makes it shocking. Pittsburg Pvst. , There is a glory and true greatness in raising one's self by the heart-Carlyle. Reading maketh a man full, but it doesn't get below his chin. Detroit Free Press. No Christmas can be complete unless charity plays a part in it. Baltimore American, v Prize fighting is becoming as dangerous a sport as . football playing. Buff alo Express. . , Mr. Gompers will now goj to work and help make a living for Mr. McBride. Washington Post. She (Innocently) Landscape! Nature, indeed! Why it's no more like nature than I am! Figaro. Mr. Debs is Joyous this Christmas. He did not get what he deserved. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Query: Does a man who eats h'orse meat necessarily' suffer from nightmare? Philadelphia North American. - - , . One-half the world does not know; how to pronounce the name of the other half. Smith & Gray's Monthly. Mr. Gompers probably attributes his defeat to a falling off in the. labor vote. Philadelphia North American. There Is nothing in the code to prevent the hanging of murderers who are inspired by hypnotism. Washington Post. "Down with the decolette corsage!" . exclaims Mrs. Grannis. Jimminy Christmas! how much lower down? Louisville CourierJournal. . "Funerals cost too much" says Mr. Dana. Not if he has the one of Nov. 6iin mind. That was cheap at any price. New York ..uvertiser. No matter how good the deacon is, he will . always look, wise and pleased If anybody suggests that he was a pretty lively young fellow when he was a boy. Somervllle Journal. - THE STATE UNIVERSITY.

Suggestions Which Arc Worthy the Attention of All Concerned. To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: " The matter of removing the State University to some more eligible place 13 not the real quetsion at issue before the people of Indiana. The real question Is whether they will make It more of a university than it is or less of a'-unlversity; or, in other words, whether they will put more money into It cr put less. Most certainly, one or the other ought to be done immediately. The trouble with us is we have been trying to adapt this, the only remaln,lng relic of that period of statesmanship which maintained that-it was the duty of the State to make the canals and railroads . of the country, and to found and maintain colleges, to the conditions of this later period, which leaves all such undertakings to private enterprise, and we find ourselves in the predicament of a man who has outgrown his original conceptions of a. house and now wishes to modernize the house he has by the introduction of such improvements as new houses have. If he had consulted his wife or some sensible architect he would have either torn the old thing down and built from the ground up, or ho would have sold or given house and lot to some one less extravagant in his notions, and sought a new locality where he might spread himself to his heart's content, but he has built a gable here and a veranda there, and cut out new doors and windows, closing old ones, until he has neither a comfortable old house nor a stylish new one. . The State University is seventy years old, and yet it has graduated less than a thousand students. It started off well-to-do In a financial way, and it has held its own admirably, but it has reached a crisis wheh demands heroic treatment. It has the proceeds of seventy thousand acres of land as an endowment, and now thojState pays it out of the public treasury. $40,000 a year towards current expenses, besides frequent special appropriations. Last year one of these reached the fat sum of $50,000, and, there Is a special tax levy, amounting to about i $63,000 a year, for twelve years to Increase the endowment fund. This indicates that It Is at least not in a starving condition. But any one can easily see that these sums, large, as they are, are wholly inadequate to the necessities of a firstclass university, and who wants any other than a first-class? The university of Michigan, the only State school in America that is above mediocrity, was more fortunate in disposing of her lands. They were made to yield a sum which, wisely lnve3ted, brings an annual income of $38,500 more than three times the yield of our endowment from our seventy thousand acres, and this is supplemented by an annual contribution from the State treasury of an average of. about $185,000. To this is to be added tuition fees from every one of her thousands of students, making more than a quarter of a million for current expensed Indiana University's Income from every source, endowment, appropriation and fees, is only about $63,000 a year. This brings us face to face with a dilemma; we can not play university on any large scale on $65,000 a year, right under the shadow of a real university with nearly four times, that in hand. Then, what are we to do? For reasons not necessary to mention here, the people or Indiana have never felt that our" university met their wants, hence, as private enterprises, fifteen other colleges . of the same grade have been founded with more or less endowment to each, some of them dating nearly as far . back as the State University, and some of them have made a record In the numbers and quality , of their graduates quite equal, if not superior, . to" the record of the State institution. It is the most natural thing In the world that mep who, for reasons satisfactory to themselves, havebullt and endowed colleges, should not take cheerfully to enforced support of other colleges of the same grade. In England to-day and In Ne"V England in earlier times, dissenters were taxed to suport the established church, though they-taxed themselves to support churcnes more to their ownjiking. That custom yet obtains in old England, but on not a foot of American soli, and these Americans are asking why they should be taxed to support a tJtate College any more than a State church in addition to supporting their own. They cheerf oily cupport .the public schools because these meet their wants. Our only chance to reconcile the people of the State to a vote of taxation that wll yield the necessary revenue for the real wants of a university proper is to be heroic in our demand, showier, them that it is cur dt:ty to rival lllchlji.n in providing fcr vrcZ?iZ..zzl education crtrinal ro-

- search at home, though no other State . than Michigan has ever undertaken it. I All other, so-called State universities are

only colleges or tne imerai an?, mi mvi. "Except in Michigan, no other State college ha3 attached the learned professions to its scheme. But we must. do better than Michigan. Why should we not have a theological school as well as a medical or a law school? And why not a college of dentistrv. and a college of pharmacy, and a college of pedagogy, and a colkge of Journalism? Why ask for appropriations from the State treasury for teaching only what U taught in fifteen private schools of our own grade? ..... But if we dare not attempt this horn of our dilemma, we should heroically take the other. I say heroically for it will require genuine heroism to even mention it. and much more to put It through. But this will be no new experience. About the time we founded our State University, under the belief that it was the prerogative and duty of the State to build colleges, we put Into active operation the corresponding political tenet of that period, that the State ought to build the canals and railroads and turnpikes of the country: but we did not po far until wo discovered our mistake. hat then? He was the most heroic of men who dared say, "Stop right where you are;' but there were such heroes, and we as heroically abandoned our half-dug ditches as we had begun them, and we generously gave them to anybody or any corporation that would take any one or all of them and finish them. Some were finished, but many never were, but the State got rid of them. It was humiliating to do it, but we had to. We had discovered that individuals or private corporations could do what the State could not, just as most people believe that private corporations can better manage the higher schools and universities than the State can, as is shown by the success of the colleges of this State, not to mention the DartmOuths and the Yales and Harvards and other eminent colleges and universities of the older States. Better give to the city of Bloomlna:ton or the county of Monroe all the State's Interest in the State University and let them run it, rather than to pension it forever on the State's treasury at the tune of fifty to a hundred thousand a year, and yet make no better a school than a half dozen of the other fifteen already are, and than all may become before they are seventy years old, unless we conclude to put a quarter of a million . annually in it, as Michigan does in hers. In this paper I express no preference for either horn of our dilemma, for neither is Inviting, but we must take one or the other, and the sooner the better. The older men of this generation well remember how the abandonment of our mistaken policy of internal improvements was resisted, especially bv those most likely to be benefited by them, but there was no escaping fit. It had to come, and the greatest regret wAs that we did not recognize the painful .fat sooner. Instead of piling up new debts to Fave what money we had already put Vnto the mistake. Sending good money after bad money Is never wise. Whertr loss Is inevitable the sooner you pocket the loss the better: charge It up to the loss sldft of the ledger and go ahead In business If it is not too late. As to the -bandonment w orking damagfvto our common school system,. there is nothing In it whatever. Every one of our fifteen private colleges is so in touch with our high schools that a diploma from one of them receive the verv same credit that it receives at the State University, and in some of them tuition is as free. I close as I began: our university should be more of a university or it should be less of a university, changing the expression to: must be more or must be less. Which shall It be? - U. L. SEE. Indianapolis, Dec. ,22. BllBBlMHHHaSSHBaBMSlSSHBHHSSa Four Great Erenls. 1. "You can't guess -that's happened," Says grandma, looking wise; "Something so unexpected It took me by surprise." And while we fail at guessing What we're sure of, forsooth. She makes the proud announcement, .The baby's got a tooth!" 2. "I've got some news to tell you," Says grandma, by and by; "Of course it's of the baby," We say with twinkling eye. "Of course it is," says grandma; And the news, too good to keep, ' Is told us in a sentence "The baby tried to creep!" 3. "Guess what I heard to-day, dears, Says grandma, Aith a grin. As to the baby's presence We all come tumbling in. '. "Something so cute! so cunning! I know you will be glad. I wish you "could have heard it The baby said 'dad, dad!' " 4. "I've something new to tell you," Says grandma in delight; And thn she hugs the baby And uikes a great big bite . Of kiss from lips like cherries In a hungry kind of way; "Just think, dears!" grandma's darling Took two big steps to-day!" i E. E. Rexford, In. the Independent. "WHY JAPAN IS WIXXIXG. Dcctln of Devotion and Daring Done t by Soldiers nnd Citiacnn. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The war In the Orient Is proving the people of Japan to be a nation of heroes, and the stories of bravery and self-sacrifice in the common cause recall Thermopylae, Arnold von Winkelrled, Mollle Stark and Incidents connected with our own civil war. Abroad, the plucky warriors scorn death, and at home patriotic women toil unceasingly in order to subscribe their last cent to insure martial success that will redound to the imperishable gloTy of the nation. A brief account of the brave trumpeter who clung to hi3 trumpet to the death, even after his throat had been cut by a bullet, has already been told; but fuller particulars have been received by the arrival in this city of Japanese newspapers. The following has been translated by a Japanese resident of Seattle: "Soon alter the outbreak of the war the first army, under command of Sublieutenant General Oshima, marched up to Asan, which is a natural stronghold next to Pinyang, and which the Chinese were vigorously protecting. Amid desperate fighting between the invaders and defenders, Shirakaml Genjlro. one of the trumpeters, blowing his trumpet, was earnestly attending to his duty, when he was shot in the throat, the wound inflicted, being enough to kill him instantly. Like a brave soldier, he did not let his trumpet drop, but still held it firmly and tried to blow It. when a stream of blood came out through It. Still holding the trumpet fast, he fell down and died. Another incident makes a common soldier a hero equal to the bravest crusader before the walls of Jerusalem. The story is as follows: "At the battle of Pinyang a division of Japanese troops rushed up to (Jenbumon, the strongest gate of Pinyang, which was very strongly built and, moreover, was well protected by Chinese inside. At this moment a soldier named Harada Jinkichi, began to climb up the strong stone wall and reached the top of it. when an officer followed Harada's example. They both got Inside at last and the former, being assisted and protected by the officer, succeeded In opening the gate from the inside, after desperate x fighting. The papers say the hero, Harada. will be rewarded with Kinshikunsho. an honorable war medal, with some annual allowance." While the victorious armies are capturing Port Arthur and marching on to Peking they receive the undivided support and encouragement of all classes at home. There are two poor widows living together in a house in tfce northern part of Saiklo, the old capital of Japan. They are sisters and both lost their husbands some years ago. Having no relatives to help them they are compelled to support themselves by washing cloth. They hardly make enough money to cover their expenses, but they have saved some money, little by little, every day. One day the eldest sister took out 5-yen (about $3.73) from her purse, and, showing It to her younger sister, said: "My dear sister, since the outbreak of the war almost every person in our country has subscribed some money for war funds. L too, think it a duty to subscribe this money, -;vhich I have saved from among dally expenses. Think, my sister, our fellow-countrymen who went over to Corea on their duty suffer from scarcity of food, from the difference of weather and from severe hardships abroad. Even Lieutenant General Nazu was obliged to be satisfied several days with only a little boiled rice and salt for his food. We women can do nothing else. As a duty to our country I wish to subscribe all my money for war funds." Instantly the younger -xoman, taking an equal sum from her purse, exclaimed: "I, too, will subscribe this, and- we will work harder than ever, save some more and subscribe a second time." That afternoon the sisters went to the city office and subscribed their monej. " " " The Haptlalnj; of Gen. Grant. New York Tribune. - Bishop J. P. Newman denies a story published in a Baptist paper that he baptised General Grant when the latter was unconscious. He says the General was in full possession of all his faculties when the rite was administered, and he adds: "A few days after this memorable event I spent two hours with General Grant in religions conversation." and asked him if he recalled the scenes of his baptism, to which he reflled: Yes. perfectly: and as you came nto the room, I wondered why they had called you at the last hour of the night To my remark, 'All thought you had not five minutes ' to live. he gave this charrTtertstlc answer: I 'xnew I was very I, .v. tut I did not Intend to die: mv work

is not done; three timrs I have ben rai 1 from the valley and shadow of ath During four months he lived and tix'rp. reviewed his first volume and wrote 11 second volume of that great mor.ur.en' i work. whh reflects his line literary tat and the nobility of character." ' " DEATH IN THE P1HZE KING.

FntalltleM Hnvo Ileen Itiirr, nn! vnr- . Tlvors Have Been Leniently Trrnird. - New York Evening Sun. Andy Bowcn's death at the gloved hat: Is of Kid Lavlgne, of course, furnishes nn. other text for preaching against rr!z fighting. Fatal accidents In boxing arc 53 extremely rare, however, that uhn o:-. occurs particular notice is directed to th Incident. In the old day, wncn the battlf-i were fought under London prize ring r;i! , accidents were more numerous th.in a present. The rules are different now, at. 3 instead of the bare knocklcs a soft ?lv Is used. The first and most notable casv ,,j death from prize lighting was that of Cjrtls, an Englishman, who fought In tru yWlp 1S16. Ills opponent was a man of the narrd of Turner. A most determined fight of l-.r.g duration ended in his defeat and dath. Turner was arrested am convicted, runonly two months' Imprisonment at Newgate. In April of the following year Jvni Bates and Clayton fought. The latter wa getting the best of the battle when a terrific blow on the Jugular vein knockt-1 hi:: senseless, death occurring two hours laur. Bates was found guilty of manslaughter, fined 1 shilling and imprisoned for .mx months. Six years later a desperate tattle took place between Watts and Smith, i i which, at the end of seventy minute-. Smith received a blow on the carotid atterwhich rendered him senseless, and re..jlt i in his death on the following aay. In November. 1821, Scott and Brown met. but ia the twentieth round, when time was called. Brown was unconscious. He died withiri twenty-four hours. At the conclusion of the trial the Jury returned a verdict exonerating Scott, and giving it us their opinion that Brown . had come by his death from overexertion. On June 2. 1JC. Simoa Byrne, champion of Ireland, and Sandy McKav champion of Scotland, who had previously' fought an undecided battle aain mt:. After a hard fight of forty-seven rounds in fifty-three minutes Sandy was knocke I senseless and died a few days later. Byrn was tried for manslaughter at the Buckingham Assizes and acquitted. On May 30, 1833, Deaf Burke, champion of Knglan i. met Simon Byrne for lf) a side and tha championship. In the ninety-ninth round, when the fight had lasted three hours anl six minutes Byrne fell senseless and died three days later. Burke was tried for manslaughter at the Hartford Assizes, July 11 of the same year, and was acquitted. Owea Swift, a man who before he was twentyseven years of age had fought and won fifteen battles out of seventeen, met and defeated Anthony Noon June 24. S3I. at Andover, for fitt a side. Afier fightlr.5 seventy-three rounds in two hours and six minutes Noon received a blow which proved fatal. Swift was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to six months' Imprisonment. Noon was not the only man who died practically of the effects of fighting Swift, for in March. 1S13. Bill Phelps, better known as Brighton Bill, met Swift at Uylston for 50 a side, and after eighty-five rounds hal been fought in one hour and thirty-rive minutes, and Swift declared the winner, both men were taken from the ground unconscious, Phelps dying three daja later from "effusion of blood to the brain." Swift was tried and acquitted on Dec. 11, 1&V, at Long Beach. Mike Madden beat Jack Jones in twenty-three rounds, lasting sixty-seven minutes. Jones died of injuries received. Madden was tried and acquitted. In mor recent years Jem Carney and Jimmie Hylan I fought for the light-weight championship of England at Tarn worth on Oct. 7. 1SS1. When the fight had lasted forty-thre rounds the rolice appeared and arrested Carney, Hyland escaping. Ills ribs were broken, and from exposure and perhaps lack of proper care, he died a few day later. Carney was sentenced to elx months imprisonment. In the case of Blordan and Fitzslmmons. it is a curioui concldence that about nineteen months ago Con Coughlln, known as the Irish, giant, met Con Hionlan in a four-round go .at Madison-square Harden. Coughlln was knocked senseless by a punch In the Jaw, from the effects of which he lay in a hospital for some time on the 'point of death. It Is somewhat singular that Kiordan should be thus "hoisted with his own petard," and that the same sort of a blow which he administered to Coughlin should causes his own death. From England comes the news that Dummy Winter killed Smith in a glove contest at. Holborn, London, prof. Mike Donovan, boxing instructor of the New York Athletic: Club, when asked for his opinion why so many deaths were occurring In the pugilistic line . nowadays, said: "There are no more now than at any other time. It I simply this, that more attention Is directed to the sport through newspaper reports and the kicking of some of our pessimistic public Look at the numln?r of men who have been laid up from playing football this year. Why, there has been more men maimed, torn, and even some disabled for life in football circles thin year than in the ranks of the fighters for the past three centuries." Regarding the death of Bowen, Mike said: "He must havo been overtrained, and that is worse than being untrained. When a man is overtrained his heart becomes weak. Then if he is punched hard it gradually gets weaker, until finally the palpitation dies out like a burning straw. 'G RES 1 1 A 31 AM I A Crltlclam.of the Secretary f State hrt Democratic 2Vevrapapcra. Boston Journal. A new and expressive name has been adopted for the fearful and wonderful diplomacy of our present national administration. It is "Greshamanla," a fit sequel to Debsomania, and good and loyal Democrats have Invented it. The career of our gifted Secretary of iitate has been unique in that a large share of the fiercest criticism which he has excited has come from the party with which he is nominally Identified. Tho New York Herald is a straightout Democratic newspaper, perhaps the ablest Democratic newsuaper In its treatment of foreign affairs in the United States. But tho Herald is now Jumping upon Mr. Cleveland's foreign minister in a vigorous and incisive way, which makes Republican objection to his ofticial p-!lry seem quite lamb-like by comparison. In -1 characteristic editorial, entitled "Greehamanla Rebuked." the Herald tells Mr.i that his "officious Intermeddling" between China and Japan has placed his count rv in "a ridiculous if not humiliating position." Then quoting some stinging comment which the Japanese government had passed on his extraordinary oourse, this excellent Democratic authority advise? him to "paste It in his hat." to save his country and himself from further exasperating blunders. But Mr. Grosham must have haughtily rejected the Herald's advice, for a. f-.v days later it is excoriating him for Incurring another "most humiliating snub." administered this time by flaMy an1 Insignificant little Turkey In return for his crazy desire to Intermeddle in the affairs of Armenia, "It Is pitiable diplomacy that could have brought this snub upon us." exclaims the Herald. "Mr. Greham hi made us 'the laughing-stock of Kurop by his blundering inanity In diplomatic jingoism." If it had been a Republican newspaper which said this the whole cuckoo rood would have rung with shrieky protects against Republican partisanship. But as a matter of fact, as the mordaclous extracts from one of the biggest Democratic Journals in the country show, thre Is no real difference of opinion as to Mr. Gresham's grotesque performances between his Republican critics and those Democrats who have a mind of their own and the ability and courage to expre?3 it. The Prenident' Pin nit. Washington Special." It is on the bills that the Present ar.i Secretary Carlisle will form a partnership for the 'practice of law in New York city after the 4th of March. IS37. The earning out of this programme "depends," as Mar Twain says. It depends on several things. For Instance, If Mr. Carlisle should be nominated and elected President the arrancment would be declared off. Likewise If h should be returned to the Senate, or If Mr. Cleveland should become s rich at the end of two years that he would have to devote his entire time to coupon clipping. Mr. Cleveland Is understood to have recovered f ntir.ly from the heavy losses .sustained In K'T by the great panic shrinkage in some of h: New York properties anl to be again -asil a millionaire. Secretary Gresham's close friends credit him with the intention of settling down in Chicago to the quiet practice of law. The Spoiling- of n. Good Sport. Philadelphia North American. The success that always attends Mr. Cleveland's sporting ventures forces in conclusion that a very good rport was spoiled to make a very lad President. , Served n Purpose. New York Prcsj Senator Turple's speech attacking tha Nicaragua canal was u mi; en r.eiMed reminder that Indiana really ho3 two Senators at Washington.-