Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1895 — Page 4

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TEE INDIANA rOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY," FEBRUARY 11, 1895.

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There is consolation In the reflection that the. life of the present Congress will end In less than a month. ; . i I i ii i ' Two, two,, two years more of G rover, and where are the marching and singing clul3, demanding his re-election? The only product of this country to which the, .Democratic tariff Beems to have opened the markets of the -world Is its gold. The President is doing the best he can .to rescue the national finances from Democratic disaster, but' he seta very little help from hla party. It does not seem that any man or woman can object to the bill creating n Indianapolis library board who desires the best things in the management for all the people. One of the indirect results of the President's high-interest coin btmd Issue is that it will cause States andcitles to pay a higher rate for the loans which many are negotiating. ' . . . . The Louisville Courier-Journal is loudly proclaiming the gospel of , sound money to the Democracy of Kentucky and Indiana, but the wilderness is wide and the Ignorance dense and stubborn. A railroad commission made up of one civil engineer, a good lawyer and a business man of recognized ability would be useful, but a commission otherwise constructed would be worse than useless. There is an obvious necessity for tlfe present Bale of bonds to recoup the gold reserve and meet current obligations of the government but it Is a "shystering" policy and should be ended as soon as possible. ' Edward Everett Hale has depicted in graphic language the condition of a man without a Country. It may de-. volvo on the future biographer of Mr. Cleveland to relate the experiences of a President without a party. ' i It seems that Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, is one of the. statesmen who borrow money of banks in ..'vrchithe State has a large deposit with- the officials who are responsible for its safety , and expenditure as indorsers. " C , It looks as if the institutions whose managers have agreed to ask , for a special levy for their support are hold-.. Ing back until the hurry of the last days of the session in the hope of getting them through without discussion. ' x : t The fact that a man who laid in ambush to murder another, and Old murder him, got but two yeurs in the State prison, goes to prove that the jurors who are made Judges o the fact and the law often take the liberty to make the law themselves. Two years In the State prison la .not a penalty to hold murderers In check. If Congress does not pass the 3 per cent, enabling act which will give the President power to exchange a gold bond of that denomination for the 4 per cent, coin bonds which he has negotiated, those men who ; are intent on for.nf.c, this country to a silver basis will be responsible, as weir as for over $16,000,000 of additional interest. If the State Bureau of Statistics has not authority in law to enable it to collect end publish agricultural statistics and other industrial facts when they will be of use why does , not . the head of it ask for it? Iixcept some portions of the last report added by the late deputy. It was .as valuable, as the patent medicine-almanac of year before last. i in ii i i . There is no reasonable defense for the abuse which has increased the expenses of the cm i-ners office in this county. It is not so large under the. present coroner as under his two predecessors. He does not tafce as much us they, and not much more than the salary which has been proposed in one bill, but methods of investigation which have grown up are abuses, and should be stopped; $6,500 or $7,000 a. year is too much money to be spent in that branch of the public service. The Brooklyn Eaglo discloses the fact that before the street-railway strikes reached the destructive stage the employes had yielded two points at issue and the employers the other, yet the committee of the Knights of Labor did not Inform the railway managers of the concessions of the employes nor the employes of the concession of the managers. Thus, when the two parties in In tt-rest had practically agreed, the Knights of Labor bosses, who had no interest In the matter, deceived both that the strike and Its evils might go on. Labor cannot have more dangerous foes than such treacherous leaders. The bill which has been reported by the judiciary committee of the United States Senate for the retirement of Justice Jackson, of the Supreme Court, on full pay of $10,000 a year Is a further

step in the direction of establishing a civil pension list. The law relative to the retirement of United States judges provides that they my resign after serving for ten years and attained the age of seventy years. Justice Jackson, is only sixty-three years old and has served about two years. Under the law he would not be eligible for retirement for eight years. His health Is poor and he is not able ; to do much work, but the retirement law is liberal enough and ought not to be suspended on slight pretext. Probably the real reason for Justice Jackson's proposed retirement at this time is . to give a' Democratic President the appointment of his successor

DEFECTIVE LEGISLATIVE METHODS Although the Legislature has wasted very little time and the work Is well advanced, with a prospect of a better record than usual in this regard, it must be evident to all that business moves slowly. A few unimportant bills have bien passed and many have been deservedly strangled, but the real important work of the session and that which it will require time to discuss and dispose of remains to be done. With every disposition on the part of both, houses to expedite business it moves slowly. This is not so much the fault of members, who are really attending strictly to their duties; as it is of established customs and faulty1 methods of legislation, i The machinery, of parliamentary law at best is somewhat cumbersome, with a tendency to grow more so. AH other machinery is subject to continual improvements in the way of time and labor-saving devices, but parliamentary machinery and legislative methods remain unchanged. Thus much time is -wasted in the reading of bills. We say; wasted because, while there is reason in the rule requiring bills to be read in the hearing of the House, there is no reason for its universal application. . Important bills, and especially long and complicated ones, could be printed and their reading, dispensed with.' A good deal of the time of committees is consumed in perfecting bills which, w-hlle they may possess merit, are presented in bad form. Considerable time of Committees, especially of the judiciary committee, is spent " in preparing adverse reports on measures which," If the matter had been referred to the committee " in the first Instance, would never have been , introduced. Other time is wasted by the two houses legislating at cross purposes on the same subject, and sometimes with the same bill before each house. There should be ' a closer -understanding; and co-operation, between the committees of the two houses. Indeed, there is no reason why : all the committees should not be joint ones, composed in part of Senators and Representatives, to which all bills introduced in either house should be referred for joint consideration, the bill to be "reported back to the - house where it ""bj-igtnated. In this way each s house wotrld be cognizant all the time of what the otier was doing, and the two could co-operate in the advancement of business. ;7 .I,';';"". ' ' , ' . ', ;. y If these suggestions are somewhat vague they may lead' to others more definite. It stands to reason that legislative methods which have Vemalned practically unchanged for generations . are susceptible of Improvement.' The , tendency In all other : directions is to simplifying" methods, dispensing' with' useless forms, abolishing red tape and taking" short cuts for the advancement of business. It . would be worth while for i the Legislature to consider i whether something of this kind cannot be, done advantageously in legislative methods. A carefully selected committee with instructions to investigate and report upon the subject might be " able to suggest some changes that would result in a saving of time and in lessening the-labor and improving the quality of legislation.' ' ' . - COXCEKNINO ZERO. 1 Very ' few words in the English language, at least In the United States language, have been more frequently used during the last week than the word zero. It is one of those special-occasion words Which are not needed often, but. in times of emergency, become5 very necessary. Perhaps It is well that it should have long periods of rest, for during such a "spell" of weather as that through which the country has just ! passed it sees hard service. And yet'. of the millions of people who have been talking so glibly of zero during (the last week, speaking of it as familiarly as if they were on Intimate terms with it, how many really know what It means or what they mean when they talk about it? It is not likely we shall hear much more of zero for some time to come. The chances are we shall not during the remainder of thl3 winter, and we certainly shall not next summer. It will soon be time for It to be laid away to rest and recuperate for the . next emergency period. Before this is done let us take counsel together as to "what the word really means. Firstly, as the preachers say, zero means nothing. This is not intended as a joke or an epigram, but as a definition. In a mathematical sense zero means nothing. In this . sense It is further defined as "the defect of all quantity considered as quantity; the origin of measurement stated at a distance from itself." And what is nothing? Not anything. In other words, hothlngr is an abstract noun which has no corresponding object In the concrete. If this is not clear, one might say thatnothing is 0, and as zero is 0, it follows that zero is nothing. But zero In a mathematical sense is not as Interesting as zero, in a climatic or weather sense. If it means nothing in mathematics it means a great deal in temperature. And yet it is doubtful if a single member of the Civil-service Commission could tell, off hand, just what zero In a weather sense means. Everybody knows it means very cold weather, and those who consult thermometers know it marks a point pretty well down towards the bulb, but this does not throw any light on zero Itself. . Is It a bacillus, a microbe, a germ, a protoplasm, an animalcule, an atom, or what? To get at the meaning of zero In a weather sense It must be remembered " that there is no ; such thing as cold. Cold is ' simply the absence of heat. One is positive and the other negative. Expel or destroy heat, and cold remains. The thermometer does not measure cold, but, aa Its name Indicates, heat only. If there were no heat there Could be no thermometer. No Instrument could be invented to measure cold except by measuring the ab-enca

of heat.- Now we are getting at it. As heat causes all bodies to exDand. It

! - .. ' lonows mat it a liquid, as mercury or alcohol, be confined in a glass tube it, will expand and contract, or rise and fall with the changes of temperature." Acting on this principle, rude instru- , J men ts were constructed at an early day to measure the variations of heat, but 1 it was reserved for Gabriel Daniel i Fahrenheit, a Dutch inventor, to utilise I zero. He conceived the idea of usmg ; mercury ; in the construction of thermometers, and took as the zero of his thermometric scale the temperature produced by mixing equal - quantities ,of snow and sal ammoniac. The space between this point and that to which the mercury rose in boiling water he divided into 212 parts. Thus 212 degrees came to stand for boiling water, thirtytwo degrees for the freezing- point of water, and thirty-two degrees below that was zero. This is the scale of measurement commonly used in this country and the zero we talk about. Really, however, zero is an arbitrary starting point from which degrees of heat are reckoned above and below. If Fahrenheit had chosen to call the boiling point of water zero, then all lesser degrees of heat would have been below zero, the freezing point would be 180 degrees below zero, and what we now call zero thirty-two degrees lower still. The Reaumur thermometer makes the freezing point of water zero, as does also the centigrade thermometer, which is generally used In Europe. If European papers have published the fact that the weather here last week -was fifteen or twenty degrees below zero their , readers, who use the centigrade thermometer, would not think that very cold, as they would understand It; as fifteen or twenty degrees below zero. The centigrade thermometer also divides the space between freezing and boiling water into one hundred equal parts, and calls the boiling point one hundred degrees instead of 212 degrees. It will be seen, therefore, that the notation Is purely arbitrary reckoning from fixed points. The absolute zero of temperature is simply the logical beginning of a thermometric scale. THE TIME FOR. METHOD. v The Legislature has done much more work thus far during the session than the number of bills which it has enacted would indicate In fact, the enactment of a few measures Is an Indication of judicious work rather than of inattention or procrastination. But this Legislature has before it a great many important measures upon winch it must act if its own performance shall meet Its own expectations. Doubtless many of these measures are already well matured in committee, and- some of them are ready to be taken up. The evil in this Legislature and most others is that much time is wasted over inconsequential matters. Hundreds of bills are presented which take time in reading and often in discussion, which should never be presented. Time is often wasted in once discussing a measure and then referring it back to a committee, to come back a few days' later for the same discussion. If the members-of committees should first explain the bills which they report there might be less time wasted In discussion. Time might also be saved by. limiting the period in which new bills can be Introduced." V ' .' -. But, with the best that can be said, the; Legislature Jias many important matters before it which should not be. left to the last days of the session, when they cannot be considered and put ln proper form to go upon the records. Thus far the visiting of institutions has interrupted the transaction of business, particularly in the Senate, but this being over, there seems no reason why more methodical work should not begin to-day and continue during the week. If the Journal should be permitted to make a suggestion to the majority it would be that it select, either in caucus or by a good committee, the matterwhich are considered of first importance and cause them to take precedence. By some action in this line a progress can be attained which would be impossible without it. THE MISINFORMATION' OF AX LL. D. : Some 6ne has sent the Journal a marked copy of the February number of the Alma Mater, the organ of St. Meinrad's College at St. Meinrad, Spencer county, Indiana. The article marked is contributed by Andrew M. Sweeney, LL. D., better' known as the late Clerk of the Supreme Court of Indiana, in which he discusses "The Business Situation." doubtless because he knows nothing about it. Many men can freely talk and write about matters concerning which they are ignorant. He epitomizes his artiqle by saying that "the, qountry was prosperous up to 1888," then "the treasury contained over $100.000,000 of surplus," and then "came the billion-dollar Congress." After which the surplus disappeared," when "scarcity of money cramped business, closing factories and causing labor to beg for bread." - As a campaigner Mr. Sweeney . might makesuch an attempt to refute the facts of current events, but as an "LL. D." .it 13 not admissible. An "LL. D." should know that there never was a "billion-dollar Congress." If there was there have been two of them. But whatever congresses may appropriate, an "LL. D." should know that only that which the treasury pays out is all that counts. The Chicago News Almanac gives the' expenditures of the four fiscal years 1891, 1892, 1893 and 1S94 as follows: $365,772,905, $345,023,330, $383,477.954, $o67,746,S67. The expenditures of the first two of these years were from appropriations made by Republican congresses, and the last two by Democratic congresses. Again, more than half the $100,000,000 surplus of 18S8 was In . favorite national banks which paid the government no interest, but was loaned out by them to business men, the banks getting Interest. As soon as it could, the Harrison administration called In this money in the banks and used it to purchase interest-bearing bonds, redeeming in two years $259,000,000 of them. The Republican Congress reduced this surplus by putting raw sugar and other foreign-produced articles of necessity on the free list, and added $50,000,000 a year to the expenditures for pensions. Equally misleading is the "LL. D." in regard to prosperous times. The country never knew such n seasdn of prosperity as was the period of the Harrison administration until the re-election, of Mr. Cleveland was heralded as a freetrade victory, to be followed by the overthrow of the protfCUe system. It

was that " and not the export of gold which checked the volume of trade, shut down factories and left labor without employment. As a matter of fact, the , net export of gold during the whole

year 1S93. that in which the fear of the Cleveland policy paralyzed business, was but $7,013,431. If Mr. Sweeney had given the chapter of misinformation to which reference is made in his ordinary capacity as an ex- j twelve - thousand - dollar-a-year officeholder of the Democratic brand the Journal . would not have noticed it. as it is his vocation, but when he signs himself "LL. D." and prints it in a literary and religious magazine, it is V duty to call the attention of the Benedictine fathers who conduct St. Meinrad's College to the profundity of the misinformation of some men upon whom they have conferred the degree of doctor of laws. . .. A disagreeable If not an alarming; feature of the financial situation us disclosed by the latest bond 'transaction is the fact that the government, after floating $100,000,000 of bonds at a shade less than - 3 per cent., cannot borrow fS5,000,000 more' at less than 4 per cent. It Is true the President says in his message that the government can get a 3 per cent, "rate by specifying that the bonds shall be paid In gold, but as the former issue, at the better rate did not contain this specification it is plain that the government credit is deteriorating. The extent of this deterioration Is shown by the difference in Interest which the administration v had agreed; to pay and that which it would have to pay on gold bonds, via., $539,159 per annum, or $16,174,770 in thirty years. The alarming feature of the situation is that the government credit has begun to decline. When such a movement begins no one can tell where It will stop, especially when the; country is afflicted w ith vn imbecile :jtn unpatriotic Congress. Fortunately, Sf howeveW this condition will change soor, and there is every reason to believe that under a Republican Congress the government credit will revive. At the rate gold has been withdrawn from the treasury during the past two months" the proceeds of the new issue.' of , bonds .will not save the government from becoming embarrassed again within forty days, but before that time there will be a Republican Congress, and, if .the necessity arises, an extra session can be called. When the Democratic party went but of power in I860 the government was borrowing money at 12 per cent, a j'ear. After the war the Republican party re-established , the public credit so that the government was able to place bonds ' at steadily improving rates until, during President,; Arthur's administration, it, was offered all the money it wanted at 2 per cent.'. The offer' was ,declined be-1 cause it did "not need the money. Now a Democratic administration is borrowing again at 4 per cent. The facts need no comment;---'.. ; DIBBLES IX THE AIH. ',-' '' '.;; - O Mining:. ' She Papa is '"saying that you stay too long when you call on me. He All right. I will not come so early after .this.: . : ' " ' ; ' Denperate. The ; Tenth'. tan ; .that Morning Hello. How did: yo'u'g'ettna black eye?' The T31acl;eyea; One-Thi3 way. (Promptly knockfcfhim down.) . .. Would CoiupvamlHe. fc The Judge I will just sentence you thirty day in the workhouse and a bath. Woeful Smithers Say Jedge, couldn't you make it sixty widout de wash? J , VVboi,, tl Poet Hot. "Dear Sir: The Siantury Magazine re- , grets to say that it finds the inclosed poem uncuited : for , its columns. , Poets whoK manuscripts a're returned are asked nat to feci that rejection 13 any evidence that the poems are capable of being understood, as many other reasons cause the return of works of-merit." ' JAPAN'S VICTOHIES. The heathen Chinee is kept very warm in these winter days skedaddling from his Japanese neighbor. Louisville Commercial. Even the ornate whiskers of our own John W. Foster couldn't persuade the Japanese authorities to accept the credentials of those envoys from China. Boston Globe. With his shore armies wiped out and his cruisers at the bottom of the Gulf pf Pe-Che-LI, John appears to be in as bad a shape as the Lemocratic party. Both are lost to siffht but to memory dear. Ohio State Journal. ' China la now", without " a fighting vessel, and but forVforeign' intervention all of her B3aporta and commercial shipping are at the mercy of Japan. It is an awkward plight for the most populous of countries. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. , - China's defeat ha3 opened the eyes of its government 10 the superiority of Western Ideas and methods, and- it is believed that the restoration of peace will witness the introduction Va railroad system on a very extensive scale. Chicago Post. .The fact that China sent peace commissioners to Japan without power to act Is accepted a3 evidence that she is fighting for delay. This puts" a . new phase on the situation. So far there has been no evidence that she was fighting, at all. Philadelphia, Inquirer. , . , The Japanese are rapidly breaking down all the pasteboard barriers, to the Chinese capital. They have destroyed China's navy utterly, and If is now only a question of marching on. China will fall with the coming of spring. , The first crocus to bloom will be the fatal ;slgnal. Memphis Commercial-Appeal, J ' . Instead of' sending peace commissioners to Tokio upon the fool's errand of trying to bluff the wideawake Japanese- the Chinese government, if it is wise, will now make peace upon any terms offered i't. Itis only a question of good weather and roads how poon the Japs will be in Peking, in which case the present Chinese dynasty will be doomed.T-Chlcago Tribune. The rulers of Europe seem to Imagine that it will be an easy thing for the great powers to unite and compel Japan to relinquish her grip and go home with a few dollars of indemnity in her pocket," but it may not be so . easy as they Imagine. Japan's fighting blood is up. and she will not be defrauded of the legitimate fruits, of her victory without a struggle. Minneapolis Tribune. ' . LIU AND HAWAII. Cleveland has been . the first American Presidfnt to try to set up a throne, and he has failed. Syracuse Standard. A little thing like an abdication will not count with Mrs. Domlnis if she sees a good chance to get Prefldfnt Dole's head in chancery. Cincinnati Enquirer. The Hawaiian republic has on Its hands the problem of tempering justice with mercy. It must make treason both odious and dangerous, yet It will exercise all the leniency consistent with that re.Tilt. Boston Journal. : Now watch, out for several columns of impassioned rhetoric from Mr. Charles Nohlhoff. He lives rxt door to the Sptecu.elses, so to speak, and the cause of the wronged (but now resigned) Mrs. Domini3 lay v;ry near his heart. Hartford Courant. Possibly the best ?oiu;.ion of the questiun in her case: will be to grant her what may be called an enforced leave o! absence a ten of dignified exile which will kop her out cf any connt-ttloi with the affairs of

th republic, and yet allow her to flaunt her former rank and dignity anywhere else in the world where people - may want to receive her. San Francisco Chronicle. Mrs. rominis may now sing those charming lines of Lord Byron or somebody else: "Oh, had we some bright Little isle of our own." She will probably get one in the routh Pacific aa a punishment for her "hixh treason. "Albany Journal. If she should come to the United States the migr t live In comfort for the rest of her life, and dcubtless she would be received with positive enthusiasm by those Americana who have since her troubles began developed a surprising love for the monarchical principle even when it masquerades in the pecty court of Honolulu. Boston Transcript. The traubles in Hawaii, in which our government must be interested, will continue until annexation occurs. Ambitious and unscrupulous men on the islands will seek to serve their own interests, and German and English intrigues will go on. Annexation of Hawaii to the United States will be found to be the only way out-New York Mail and Express, Royalty is dead in Hawaii only as long as the people wish It to be dead. The moment sentiment changed to tolerate royalty there would be a prompt resuscitation, abdication or no abdication. . Queen Lil can sign away the crown as tar as sne herself is concerned, but she has nothing whatever to say about the fate of dynasties. Dull oit Tribune. ; The testin.ony already taken, shows with reasonable certainty that certain "sugar kings," who are out of the reach of, the Hawaiian government, have been the real men who pulled the strings, and that the so-called revolutionists were largely the puppets of foreign capitalists. As for the "example" to follow the execution of the conspirators by making martyrs of s.uch men the government, will gain nothing. Boston Ad rrtiser. The facts of chief consequence are that the ridiculous and disgraceful complications in Hawaii have come to an end; that the burlesque : monarchy, together with , its tinsel throne and its absurd occupant, has been permanently withdrawn; that the fountain head of the conspiracy and turmoil has dried up, and the supremacy of Christianity, civilization and free government been everywhere acknowledged. Washington Post. .,;.. r. Although the ex-Queeh of Hawaii has merely renounced what she had already lost, her course will doubtless have a moral effect which will simplify the situation there and contribute to the stability of the existing government as well as the peee -f the islands. For that reason the Government can well afford to show a spirit of clemency both to her end to those engaged in the recent rebellion. Indeed, this would seem to be the most politic course to pursue. New York Herald. THE XEW BONDS. The house of Rothschild wears a' threeball smile in anticipation of the American loan. Detroit Tribune (Rep.). We have at present a President who Is trying to protect the national credit at all costs and a Congress whose inaction makes tnese costs as great as possible. Milwaukee Sentinel (Rep.). -Business understands that the President will do the best he can to protect the financial standing of the government with " the antiquated mean at his disposal. St. Louis Republic (Dem.). - . . Fortunately, the President has the iower to maintain the nation's credit. There is no longer the slightest necessity for further delay. Congress has given Its answer. Now let the President issue his bonds. Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.). The announcement that the bond deal is closed Is premature. The deal will not be closed until the syndicate of British gold dealers have "absorbed" all the gold they put into the treasury in exchange for bonds. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Dem.). ' The President is, firm In his purpose to sustain the national credit, and his present step may sncceed in tiding the country over presient emergencies and until a time when increasing revenues shall fortify the treasury against all danger of extensive inroads. Chicago Record (Ind.). The proposition of exchange is clearly in the nature of a, bluff. The President and, his secret cabal know perfectly well that no such bond regulation as Is under discussion could be got through the two Houses of Congress In eo short a time as ten days, even if ooth were strongly in favor of it. Chicago Inter Ocean (Rep.). . . Mr. Cleveland's troubles have but begun. The end 13 not in sight, nor will It be until the government's receipts exceed . the expenditures. Bond issuing is a genteel way of whipping the devil around the stump; a device to blot out , a deficit, but it 13 not financiering in any sense of the word. Cin-, cinnati Tribune (Rep.). . The President will, by the time that this gold begins to come in, see the hopelessness of asking Congress for any wise legislation on this question, and he will sell bonds under the law of twenty years ajto wnenever the reserve begins to get to low figures. It is extremely fortunate for the country that the law of 1S75 still stands, j St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Uep.). The President's promptness and courage merit the thanks of all honest m-n, and one cannot but admire the manner in which he points out calmly, but without equivocation, the fact that it rests with the silver extremists to say whether or no the country shall pay more than sixteen millions extra for the permission to omit the word "gold" from the face of the bonds which are to. be sold for gold coin. Chicago Tribune (Rep.). s What will Congress do about It? Will it authorize a gold bond, or by refusing to do so will It inflict a loss upon the people of over $16,000,000 on a loan of J65,000,0O0, a loss equal to very nearly one-fourth of the principal? The President makes no recommendation. He simply states the fact, and leaves Congresa to shoulder tha responsibility for inflicting a loss upon the public if it chooses to do so. Chicago Herald (Dem.). ' The negotiations for the proposed loan of $65,000,00:) have not been public. There has been no advertisement for , bids. The gov-. ernment is a party to the arrangement, and the President seems to be rather pleased with the bad bargain he has driven. He proposes to pay within a quarter of a cent as much interest as is provided by a law passed twenty years ago, when the country was getting ready to "resume specie payments." Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.). THE INDIANA PR4CSS.

; The Stale Legislature should be sure that no future State pflicial comes out of his term of office with the; profits realized by Attorney-general Green Smith. Greens'ourg Review. The Indiana Legislature is making a good record by not enacting into laws a mass of ill-considered measures. It is an exceptional record, because in nearly all other States the Legislatures are making laws to cover all manner of subjects. Terre Haute Mall. The remark cannot be made too often or too earnestly that if the Legislature. makes any mistakes this year they should be on the side of economy. Most people are having all they can do to get along now, and do not want any chunks put on the track in the way of . more taxes. Economy and retrenchment are the watchwords for this year. Rushville Republican. The Legislature should deal with the office of State Oil Inspector as it did with the office of State Gas Inspector abolish it. We will wager a year's subscription to the Plunktowr Bugle that there are hardly a score of men who know that there is a deputy of that officer in Muncie who draws a salary of $300 a year with practically nothing to do. Muncie Times. We are of the very decided opinion that the Legislature will do well if it moves very slowly and very carefully in the matter of the building and loan associations. In this part of the State, at least, they have proved themselves safe financial institutions. It would be nothing less than a calamity if their general usefulness should be interfered with. New Albany Tribune. The Indiana School-book Company is about to be investigated. If the light was turned on the fact would be discovered that the Company is an immense trust the existence of which is made possible by the law concerning schoolbooks. Hy the terms of the law the great State of Indiana holds a partnership in the trust. And the dear people pay the fiddler. Crawfordaville Journal. , I .- ,. The House committee on temperance has agreed to strike out from the Nicholson bill the absurd and unconstitutional restriction in the seoond section prohibiting the

use of chairs and other convenience In the way of furniture in saloons. This was an unrea-foma-b.e and senmless restriction, as the Tribune insisted, from the beginning.

! and the committee has done wisely in strik ing it out Kokomo Tribune. .., The; feature of the Nicholson bill which especially commends It Is that the ward or township can keep a saloon out of its ! territory if It wanta to. While the effect I may not be apparent in Marlon, it will be ' a lively reality in some of the smaller towns, where 90 per cent, of the citizens oppose the saloon. In such places the pa- . trons are usually of two classes the totally : depraved, who are mostly old people, and ' the incorrigible youngsters, who rapidly de velop into criminals. Marion Chronicle. Hon. Marshall E. Newhouse'a bill to exempt mortgaged real estate up to $1,000 for each individual, provided the $1,000 is not in excess of two-thirds of the assessed valuation of the property is a wise measure, and if successful will be the first measure to prevent "double taxation," although it has long been the bone of contention with our legislators. It bring3 relief to the taxpayers who are in debt and have limited means, a class that is in the great majority, and it is but simple justice that this law should be put on our statute books. Greensburg Standard. The State Senate has decided the contest between Adam Foust and J. W, Rinear in Mr. Rinear's favor, confirming his right to represent Wells and Huntington counties. The contest -has been a vigorous one, but free from bitterness except on the part of a few Democratic editors, who affected to believe it was a "conspiracy" to steal a holdover Senator, the same as their own party has done in former similar contests. The contest was a perfectly proper one. and Mr. Foust desrves credit for laying bare some of the iniquities practiced in this and Wells counties. That the proof did not overcome the majority returned by the election officers for Mr. Rinear must be very satisfactory to that gentleman, for he was in no way implicated in the chicanery unearthed nor do we believe he would care to retain a position to which he was not legally elected, any more than Mr. Foust would care to accept one under similar circumstances. The effect of the contest will result In less illegal voting and fewer irregularity on the part of election officers in this vicintiy hereafter, and is worth all It cost to the taxpayers. Huntington Herald. The word "nonpartisan" has a clear and specific meaning, which cannot be mist? ken by him who honestly desires' to know it. It mattery not whether Democrats or Re-' publicans outnumber on the board of management if the administration is nonpartisan. On the other hand, the very fact of taking into consideration the political affiliations of the membership on the board is in itself inconsistent with the idea of a nonpartisan administration.- The word nonpartisan implies that political affiliation shall not be considered in any question affecting the management of - these institutions in any way, either in the make-up of the boards or the appointment or the discharge of subordinates; that the only question considered shall be the efficiency and fitness of the employes; that me- whall not be employed because: they are . publicans nor discharged because the are Democrats, or vice versa; but that the only consideration shall be the good of the service, and good men shall be permitted to retain their positions under any and all administrations, and in their discharge and the appointment of their successors fie question asked shall not be what ti.-knt they vote usually at the elections, bat ':heir qualifications and merits in the official capacity to-which they are called. Nonpartisan administration means precisely, this, and it means nothing else. Lafayette Call. ABOUT. PEOBLE AND THINGS. The Chinese Emperor is small and delicate." He looks like a lad of sixteen or seventeen, and speaks like a youth of that age. - - ' .. The Czarina of Russia is fond of swimming and to indulge in it is having a bath of white marble made in the Winter Palace in which she can have all the pleasure una comfort she desires. It Is said that at the end of each month after his election to the presidency of the French republic M, Casimer-Perier was in the habit of distributing among the poor whatever remained of his allowance from the state. Besides this he gave away $50,000 in charity out of his private income while he was chief of the, state. . , v. ; : : Mr. Harry Walters, who sow controls the art collection left by his father, the late William T. Walters, will follow the latter's custom of "opening the galleries to the public and giving the proceeds from a small admission feee to the Poor Association of Baltimore. Mr. Walters is now engaged in carrying out a task which was begun by his father, the publication of an authoritative work on Oriental porcelains. It will probably be Issued in October of this year. Kate Field lectured In Chicago recently. She declares prohibition to be intemperate. (Among other thing she said: "Alcohol is in everything. The Creator understood his work, and let us accept the situation. In human stomachs undigested food ferments and alcohol results. Every dyspeptic is a walking distillery. . Must they be abolished? Total abstainers eat great quantities of sweets. These ferment and the prohibitionists themselv form a grand cordon of distilleries." Although Breckinridge is in the prime of strength and vigor, he looks like an old man. It is his yellowish-white hair that lends him a venerable appearance. He is one of the most powerful men In Congress, and It was with the strength of an enraged bull that he rushed at Heard. Since the Pollard trial he has lost' much of the elegance that used to characterize him. His dress is less carefully attended to, n.a audress is less bland. It is with an evident effort that he assumes his gentler nature. The most remarkable instance of rapid growth Is said to be recorded by the French Academy In 1729. It waft a boy six years of age, five feet six inches in height. At the age of five his voice changed, at six his beard had grown, and he appeared a man of thirty. , He possessed great physical strength, and could easily lift to his shoulders and carry bags of grain weigning 200 pounds. His decline was as rapid as his growth. At eight his hair and beard were gray; at ten he tottered In his ; walk, his teeth fell out, aad his hands became palsied; at twelve he died with every outward sign of extreme old age. Emperor William has conferred the'collar ofi. the Black Eagle upon the Emperor of Japan, and the star of the Red Eagle upon Viscount Aoki, the Japanese Minister to Germany. In conferring a decoration upon the Mikado, the German Emperor requites in kind of courtesy extended to himself by the Emperor of Japan. A few weeks ago it was announced that the Japanese ruier had bestowed the Grand . Order of the Imperial Chrysanthemum Upon the Emperor of Germany in recognition of the military and naval instruction given to the Japanese by German officers. The Mikado has done a shrewd thing in promoting this interchange of decoration- with the powerful European sovereign. , , ; , One whole long week the ice and snow Shrouded the city streets below; And glad was the heart of Little Ned When his father got him a nice new sled; Then the sun came out the self-same day And melted the snow and ice awayi So the Winter eocs with June skies fair And Little Neddy has learned to swear. " : Puck. ' The Cheap Money Fad. Louisville Courier-Journal. The notion that cheap and abundant money is an evidence of prosperity is negatived by the facts. Money is cheap because of the slack demand. The demand fs inadequate to employ the money which we have. If it were certain that the fortv-flve millions of idle money in the New York banks that has ben offered at 1 per cent, could be employed so as to earn Hi or 2 per cent, it would be utilized at once. Men able to secure the repayment of the monty ar not fsatlpfied of their abdlty to do this. There is a lack of confidence which keeps business down to the basis of current consumption. Should Be it Time Limit. Philadelphia Press. Old age seems to be striking Senator Harris in the stomach. His chronic irritability and bad manners must be due to indigestion. Mitchell, of Oregon, is the latent to receive the benefit of it, but there are few active Senators who have not been at one time or another the victims o? ? the Tennesseean's discourtesy and bad tftmper. Experience is a valuable senatorial asset, but there ought to 1 a time limit oa Senators whom the infirmities of age make unduly splenetic and quarrelsome. : The Altosether. Kansas City Journal. The prtfent cold weather is not merely a loc-il aillictlon. It extends over America. Europe and Asia. At present this is a coid woiii. ,

BATTLE WITH WAVES

THRILLING STOHY OF THE STEAMER TEUTONIC'S LAST VOVAGIV Desperate Fight with Moanlnluoas Seas and Hovrlluir Winds An Experience Long: to Be Remembered. NEW YORK,' Feb. 9. Never has an ocean greyhound had such a wrestle with Wind and sea as that which the Teutonic ended Saturday morning, when she steamed wearily up the North river, mast, and spar, and yards, funnels, decks and sides all a-glltter, so that she looked - like some strange phantasy of a polar sea. It was close upon ten days since she dropped dowa the Mersey, and the 701 human beings she bore rushed eagerly ashore to tell of their peril arid of the sights they had seen, the dramatic adventures they had had and of shipwrecked sailors torn from . the very throat of death. The big ship found the storm waiting for her In the great lurking place of storm and cross seas, where the Atlantic meets the southwestern point of Ireland. The voyage from Liverpool to Queenstown was smooth, the sky clear, the air sharp, but kindly. With the closing in of night a week; ) ioi luursuaj- uie winu oegaa io.woui and the sea . to lift itself and dash . spray over the laboring ship until her decks were a-s glassy as a skating pond. . The thermometer fell rapidly. All day Friday the Teutonic pushed through this sort of .weather, no unusual thing at this time of year, and having no more serious effect than to drive most of the -first cabin passengers from the saloon tables and to make the wail of the seasick loud fti the steerage. t Saturday the waves began to quiet and the waves sunk gradually that day and Sunday to a long swell, through wn.eft the ship . went with ease. The outlook waa for a smooth voyage from that potnt on. Tho sailor men scraped the ice from rail and deck and Monday morning the passengers were racing about out of doors. The sun was shining and the sea was sparkling. But Monday afternoon came a change ard the captain saw that the Teutonic was sailing straight into a great storm. By nlghtfi'l the wind was sweeping the decks so that no man could walk them without hold ing to.tne rati, ana the sea was puing up in frorit and tossine- masses nf frppzlriir wtr over the bow. The storm rose swiftly until a seventy-mile gale was blowing and the Teutonic was lifted one moment upon lofty crests to be hurled the next Instant Into deep abysses. All night long the passenger listened to those terrible sounds that fill the inexperienced with the feeling- that death Is imminent. A FURIOUS TEMPEST. By morning a tempest was raging such as no one on that ship ' had ever been through. And its fury increased. Such' waves had never been seen before. Hie crests towered far up into the air, and the arctic wind, with a terrific noise, whistled them into spray, which showered upon' the vessel In the form of snow. One huge wave leaped 'upon the vessel and flooded the officers' ; messroom. - It '.ore away the iron work. It poured tons of water on the decks and into the compartments, and the crash of its stroke was like the splitting of mountain in an earthquake. The olficers ran for their lives. Hardly had the ship recovered from this shock when a second wave threatened. This rose beside the vessel, long as It was, and kept on rising until its white crest was ; near on rmnci'-ed fet Miove the topmast of the Teutonic. The wind snapped off the streamers Lie io4. Then the whole wave curled, hesitated, fell upon the vessel, tons upon tons of water -dropping from midheaven and burying, the ship completely. The smoking room was . filled with men. In rushed the icecold water, sweeping everything before it. The Teutonic rose from under this weight and staggered on. Captain Cameron, standing on the bridge, saw that the tempest was too strong. In all her long history the Teutonic had never turned her face from the foe. The waves had threatened, but she had pushed straight into them; the tempest had whirled, but she had kept to her course. But. this ternpest was too much for .her. The Captain : gave the order for the change of course ' and the ship staggered and reeled around. She turned tail to the temoest. She flew before it, the great waves hurl'ng and throwing themselves upon her stern and tha great wind making her roll from side to side. . . Fnr fiiiit" innr. from 2 tv m until R m of Tuesday last, she ran before the wind. ' Even then she was not out of peril, for the cyclone was all about her and the winds were shifting round and round the horizon, lashing the sea to madness, so that the huge waves rose now ahead, now on the broadside, and now astern. Wednesday night was a night of terror. Several lifeboats were swept away, the waters falling upon the deck filled the interior of tha ship with a continual crash and roar. At one instant the Teutonic rose on her stern until her bow was near .the perpendicular. The next she plunged downward until her stern was where her bow had been, and as she plunged, she reeled and rolled. BABE BORN AMID THE TUMULT. In the midst of this chaos of matter and force, when the wind was at its height, when the cannonading of the storm was at its heaviest, there was a cry in one of the cabins, so faint that the ship's surgeons and the stewardess, bracing themselves and stooping over the little form from which the cry came, could hardly hear It. A new soul had come , into the world, born with the waves as godmother and the wind as godfather a child of the tempesl. it waa a little girl, and the mother, Mrs. Robinson, was on her way from England to Canada . to Join her husband. He had met with misfortune in England, and had gone to Canada a few months before. And she, voyaging to Join him, had brought her child into the world before its time because of her fright. It was a poor weak little thing, this child of the stormy sea, and it only lived until morning. During its brief transit between birth and death the air was filled with splitting and booming sounds of the . wildest contention that has raged in tha winter Atlantic in a generation. The Nha was born in the hurricane of a polar-like sea, and it died in the tempest. The sea which had been its cradle was also its grave. The next morning the fury of the elements had abated somewhat, and the ship, again steaming into the frothing, savag storm, was coated with ice several inch'S deep. The thermometer was at zero, and a heavy snow falling Jay six inches deep on the ice of the, steamer's decks, and piled here and there Into drifts. . The tempest had abated but was still -blowing a shrill hornpipe to the dancing of the frenzied sea. Ail that night. u thd night before, most of the passengers slayed. in the saloon. But with abating tempest came a new form of assault. The air grew eclder Thursday the themometer dropped, below zero, a heavy fog rolled , up and through it came a blinding snowstorm, fairly choking the decks of the ship. The gate was still blowing over forty miles an hour. The sea, being warmer than the air. sent up a thick steam, that, combined with the fog and the snow, made the air opsiqu. Monday the ship had been but Sfio miles" from New York, here it was Thursday and it was only nearing Fire island. ' Toward sunset Thursday the air cleared and the captain on the bridge made out without 'the', aid of a glass the observatory on Fire ' island. So clear was the cold air that be could see with his unaided eyes the win--flows of the observatory. And he was wondering why the observer there did not see the Teutonic and report her. The fog aud the snow closed In again and the wind freshened so that Thursday night was' almost as bad as Wednesday night had neen, Friday morning the wind went dswn somewhat and the fog lifted enough for the steamer to go ahead slowly. She was. going along about five miles off shore. At 2 p. m. the captain sighted a fishing smack fiylrg signals of distress. The smack was gain round and round with reefed sails and soon the captain could see that the men were at the pumps. The Teutonic bcre down to within a quarter of a mile and hove to. The fishing smack was the J osie Reeves of New York. She had sailed from a pior near Fulton market two weeks ago to-day to flah In the Fire island grounds. The smack's crew could not even leave the pumps to reef the sal's when the Teutonic overhauled them. Frozen, with numb flnsrers and frosted ears and iies, with clothing stiff with ice, they toiled oa. hoping against hope, eatllriii rtund and round through the fog and the s now. Aftr repeated attempts thr Teutonic succeeded ITi rescuing them. The steamer sailed Into Sandy Hook in the evening, and yesterday morning came up to her.pitr. "I have traveled half a million knots," said Dr. Radmure. "in all the seas f tho world, and never have I seen the like of that storm." Said J. S. Collins, of the American Cotton Oil Company:"! never would have believed that the sea could run so hish. Som of the waves were fully as high as lha ton kC Trinity stectU,"