Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1896 — Page 4

TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, -.TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2-1, . 1896.

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Business Improvement has rarely or never begun to be apparent with the coming of winter and the close of the year. This year Is an exception. During the first sixteen days after the election CI closed manufacturing establishments were 'opened and 239 others added to their force of menThere can be no doubt that General Sickles would be made Governor of Cuba if the President-elect should have the ap polntment at his disposal. There are many families which would appreciate a present of a Thanksgiving turkey: there are many men who have sufficient cause to be thankful wffo could furnish them. Tiie total presidential vote this year la 13.579.CJS; in the total vote was 12,0C0.K9; In im the vote was 11.377.940. That Is, the increase of 1806 over 1892 was more than double the increase of 12 over 1853. It Is known that Senator Lindsay, of Kentucky, is in the confidence of the President, consequently those who know that fact .will be gratified to learn that Mr. Cleveland's message will deal largely with the Cuban question. The new federation of labor in Chicago lias shown Its good t'ense by refusing to indorse free coinage of sliver or the fiat money proposition of the Populists. Its members seem willing that the Knights of Labor should monopolize that sort of thing. At a time when there seems no possible pretext for telling improbable stories, it seems unnecessary for any one to have started the" story that the President-elect will continue Secretary Carlisle in office. The next Secretary of tho Treasury will know a deficit before it has run him down. The proposition of the Russian minister, to the effect that the United States, Great Britain, the Argentine Republic and Australia should join Russia in an agreement to make a uniform price for wheat, which should continue through several seasons, is In the nature of a trust, and would fall if attempted. . , It has been given out that the executive committee of the Republican National League has decided to fight Mr. Bryan by Bending in. advance to the places where he Is announced to speak a supply of soundmoney literature. That is the way to do It; still. Bryan's oratory Is quite fatal to Bryan's money heresies. Tho "London Chronicle hears of a great coal trust and of a powerful syndicate Which is to acquire and work a considerable number of butcher shops in London. It says there is almost a monopoly of bicycle tires, andi that another company controls all of the motor car patents it can get hold of. And yet we are given to understand that there are no trusts in tho Xree-trade country. The management of all building and loan associations must not be Judged by the few cases of apparent or real injustice which get into the newspapers. The most of them are sound, carefully managed and worthy of confidence.' The fact that at least OS per cent, of those In this State passed through the years 1S33. 1S9 1. 1S95 and 1S0 without embarrassment proves their stability. But the law needs to be amended In several particulars. The Chicago Tribune is so old fogyish as to predict that it will not be long until parents will send their sons to institutions of learning where football does not seem to be the chief occupation for two months, and where there is a certainty that their boys will not be brought home dead or crippled. The Tribune is so bold as to say that college presidents dare notiraie their , fingers against the dangerous sport. The Tribune will get Itself disliked. It is reported that Consul-general Lee's report regarding Cuba to the President favors intervention on the ground that Spain cannot put down the revolution and the Cubans cannot win a battle. Out of these conditions comes interminable warfare, which should be ended on humane as well as upon commercial grounds. It is further utated that the President does not propose to act upon the advice of his consul-general, but will leave the matter to his successor. A correspondent seems Inclined to think that something more Is needed for the management of Insurance companies in this State, noting, among other things which may b needed, the inability of the officer who has charge of insurance, under the State Auditor to grant permits to companies, and the failure of the State to publish an Insurance report showing at length the standing of the companies doing business in the State. In regard to the power cf the insurance officer under the Auditor, It can make no difference whether it lies with him to issue permits or with the Auditor, sinco the latter will act upon the advice of his subordinate. In regard to :rrUite4 reports, coating, the State several

thousand dollars, the present provision requiring the companies to pay for the publication of statements of their condition In two papers In the State, certified by the State Auditor, puts all the Information before the people much more generally than it could be done by a reprint In book form. The present management of insurance, so far as it relates to the State and the people, is careful and economical. Indiana has no thirty or forty thousand dollars to spend upon an Insurance bureau. THE IMPERATIVE DEMAND.

Tho Boston Herald, a supporter of the present administration, has heard that "Secretary Carlisle has not yet decided to admit that the deficiency of the revenue is responsible for the larger portion of the sales of bond3 during the present administration." The Herald then proceeds as follows: Well, what difference can it make whether he admits the jwiint or ignores it? The fact is there, all the same, and It has become so pbu'n that there is no possibility of disputing Its existence. Speaking roundly, one may say that two-thirds of the money received through the lond sales has been used by tho treasury in meeting the deficiencies of the revenue, and in redeeming tho Pacific railway bonds as they fell due. The Boston paper closes its article by saying to Secretary Carlisle that "it will be? far safer to acknowledge frankly the grave condition of affairs (the continual deficit in the revenues) than to shut his eves to it longer." The "grave condition" Is due In no small degree to the course which the administration pursued when Congress assembled In December, 1S33. At that time the monthly deficit was at the rate of $70,000,000 a year. Most men familiar with public affairs, whoso opinions are worth anything, declared at that time that the revenues were inadequate and that thev should be Increased. Senator Gorman ind other leading Democrats made such declarations and Senators Sherman and Aldrlch demonstrated by figures that more revenues .were needed to make the receipts of the treasury equal to its expenditures. Tho President, in his message, and Mr. Carlisle, in his report, made no special mention of the large deficiency, except that the latter predicted that the revenues which would come Into the treasury when the law should be In full operation would turn a large deficiency Into a surplus. Instead of noting the deficiency and suggesting a remedy, the President and his Secretary presented a recommendation for the issue of gold bonds to maintain the reserve and to provide money for the retfrement of the greenbacks and a banking scheme which many believed would have caused the Issues of State banks to supplant those of the national banks. Both these schemes failed In a House having a large Democratic majority. The result was that nothing w-as done. The Democratic Congress, " following the President and Secretary Carlisle, ignored the insufficiency of the revenues and refused to support either of the administration's measures. As the result bonds were put mon the market, but for what purpose? Ostensibly to maintain the gold reserve, but really to obtain funds with which to pay current expenditures. If the sixty or seventy millions of greenbacks used as "the endless chain" to draw gold out of the treasury could have been held In the treasury instead of being paid out to meet current expenses not over fciO,000.000 of bonds would have been needed to keep up the reserve. These facts are now generally understood, consequently If Mr. Carlisle should conclude to ignore the deficit in ' his report in December, such an omission will detract from the weight which his suggestions on other topics would have. More revenue is the first and most pressing need of the government. If this Congress will not vote it. the President-elect will be forced to call an extra session of the next. THE SELF-DISFRANCHISED. The official canvass of -the vote in this State shows that 6,355 more men voted for the first candidate on the electoral 'ticket than voted for the second. This means that 6,355 voters imagined they were voting the whole ticket, when in fact they were only voting for the candidate for elector at the head of the ticket. There are 2,553 men In Indiana who imagine that they voted the whole McKInley ticket wfien they only voted one-fifteenth of It. There are prohabiy many more than 2.764 Popocrats who are now sorry that they voted for Bryan, but as many as regretjt can find solace In the fact that 2.764 Popocrats voted only onefifteenth of a Bryan electoral ticket, and that perchance each of them made the mistake of stamping in the square against the first name on the viocratic electoral ticket Instead of in the square occupied in part by a now by no means triumphant rooster. There are 2,637 voters In Indiana who now take pleasure in saying that they voted for James A. Mount when they neither voted for him nor any candidate on the Republican State ticket, because the only candidate for whom they voted was the first elector, for tho reason that they stamped the square against his name instead of stamping the square in which the eagle is printed. There is even a larger number of Democrats who probably imagined that they were voting the whole Democratic ticket, presidential and State, when they simply voted for one elector for President. The number of ballots which have been irr" part wasted by carelessness or Ignorance of the provisions of the law is known, but the number which was lost byv mutilation incident to the use of the stamp, either on blotting or illegal marking, cannot be known until some one In all the counties should go over the precinct returns. The number of men who disfranchised themselves In part by stamping the wrong square Is, as above stated, over 6,300. That Is a large number, but there is reason to believe that more than as many more were disfranchised by the clumsy device for marking ballots by blotting or otherwise making the ballot Illegal. 0.E TIIIMi AT A TIME. It may be doubted If any city of Its size has put so much -money Into permanent street and sewer Improvements as has Indianapolis. From 1)1 to IST'5, both Inclusive, nearly $4,000,000 were expended on permanent improvements. The expenditure of 16 will carry the aggregate well up to $3.00.000. say H.75O.C0. It is needless to say that this Is a very large amount of money to collect in addition to regular taxes from those taxpayers who are assessed for permanent streets and sewers. Upon thou sands of worthy people It is a very heavy burden, and upon a few a burden, under ex istlng conditions, which they have been unable to carry. These Improvements were necessary. If Indianapolis was to bo a city such as it now is, permanent streets and a system of sewerage was necessary. There are yet other improvements In this line which must be mde. There are others which are desirable which It seems wise to vostpono

until the larger part of the taxation which has been placed upon the city shall be paid. This will take several years. For Instance, the taxpayers should be given time In

which to pay off liabilities Incurred by-the street and sewer improvements before an extensive system of parks shall be under taken. Parks would add much to the attractiveness of. a city already attractive. but, with the present heavy burdens, It would seem to be wiserto give thousands of people who are struggling to pay for homes and improvements an opportunity to do so. So long, however, as these are prac tically mortgaged by street and sewer asses? mcnts. it Is but considerate to let an extensive expenditure for parks remain for the future. It will be replied that bonds can be issued. But the interest on bonds must be paid and the bonds themselves must be cared for by a sinking fund. The custom of issuing bonds for. Improvements has caused the most of our cities to be burdened with debt and consequent high tax ation. If, however, the practice of larger cities Is to be made a precedent, we should seek first to secure an ample water sup ply by water works owned by the city, Water works and not a system of costly parks Is the next real need of Indianapolis. But first give the people upon whom nearly $5,000,000 of street and sewer assessments have been imposed in the past six years a brief space in which to relieve their homes of tho mortgages which they have im posed. A C1IAJIGE DISPROVED. The Tatler, lately begun and already de funct, had this to say in Its final issue: Why is it that there are so few writers among women who possess the gift of humor? Can it be that this Is a masculine gift, and that thoe women who possess it re exceptions? We see, in everyday life many women who have wit. but few who are really humorous, and among our Amer ican writers the work of the men certainly displays far more humor than is to be found In the work of the women. The charge that women are lacking In humor has been made so often that it is accepted by many as a fact when a little thought would show its lack of truth. Beginning with English women writers Jane Austen is distinguished for her keen sense of humor. Charlotte Bronte, with all her somber tendencies, had the quality in a lesser degree; George Eliot possessed It In gocd measure, though In her later w;ork It found little expression. Coming down to present time, Mrs. "Ward, most notable among women novelists of her country, is totally lacking in humor. Coming to this side of the water, Mrs. Stowe, first among -American women as story writer, had a rich humor. Without that sense highly developed she would not have given that contrast of light and shade to "Uncle Tom's. Cabin" which caused people to read it. As a tragedy it would have fallen flat. In all probability. Her New England tales showed the same quality in hardly less de gree. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has little if any humor. Mrs. Burnett, who ought. however, to be classed as an English woman, has the same defect. Otherwise she would not have made such a prig of "Little Lord Fauntleroy." and would have recognized the absurdities in the character fit her "Lady of Quality." But who could have a more delightful sense of humor than Miss Jewett? It is an exquisite qual ity and pervades all her work like an at mosphere. Humor of the bet sort is char acteristic of Miss Wilklns's writings. It is highly developed in Maria Louise Pool. It bubbles up In the happiest fashion In Kate Douglas Wiggins stories. Grace King and Mrs. McEnery Stuart have each a not ably humorous touch. The same is true of Octave Thanet, Frances Courtney Baylor, Annie Trumbull Slosson and a dozen other writers of short storfes who might be mentioned. Among essayists Agnes Reppller has a dainty humor. In fact, if it comes down to a counting of heads it is by no means certain that literary women of humor will not outnumber the men: for the assumption that men without this sense are tho exception has a poor basis. They are too numerous in print and out to bo regarded as phenomena. Charles Lamb is lonely among English writers. Who is there to approach him in a later day? Thackeray was7 humorous; Dickens also In a more elephantine way; the new school cf Scotch writers owe their popularity to their humor, but Hardy and Meredith seem almost devoid of the quality. Kipling, the cosmopolitan, has it in a high state of development. Ho wells has it in fair degree and of a gentle sort, but of whom among his male contemporaries can this be said? Marion Crawford shows few signs of Its possession; Henry James knows It not; James Lane Allen is without it. Henry Fuller understands that such a thing ex ists, but fails to bring it within his control. Of a past generation Holmes and Lowell Jiad a genius for humor; Emerson, Haw thorne, Thoreau lacked the trait. These instances are those that first suggest themselves, but they arc enough to show that humor is not an exclusive masculine pos session, and that it will not do to accept stereotyped assertions too readily. When the Republican ways and means committee in the House reduced the amounts for the maintenance of the public Institutions 10 per cent., the cry was raised that few of them could get through the two years with the amounts recommended and finally appropriated. The reports of most of theso Institutions show that they have not expended more than the amount appropriated. The managers of one insti tution havj expended money for purposes not specified In the appropriation act, but the amount voted for maintenance seems to have been sufficient. And yet, with this experience, the officers in charge of several institutions have asked for larger appropriations from the Incoming Legislature for maintenance, to say nothing of the large sums asked for buildings and improvements. The outcome shows that the Legislature of 1S95. in cutting down the ap propriations for maintenance, acted wisely. We have been provided for In abundance from God's storehouses, and our only cause for murmur or complaint Is to be found In such things as the misguided action of our fellow-citizens In other sections have Im posed upon us. tth us "every prospect pleases and only man is vue. The foregoing is from the Thanksgiving proclamation of Governor Clarke, of Arkansas, who seems to be bidding against Chairman Jones for the honor of being freak-ln-chief by in some way turning Thanksgiving day Into a season for Poporratlc howling over defeat. Arkansas Is yet quite a distance from the United States. The national farmers' convention, the congress of religions, the university extension conference, all crowding together in this city, have attracted the attention of the country to the Indiana capital to an unusual degree, and this Interest has been great ' Increased by the action of our Boar f Trade in urging the formation of a government monetary commission. Indi anapolis. In consequence. Is being very much talked about. In a complimentary ! vay. for the most part; but people hero

are not likely to have their heads turned in the least. They pnjby and appreciate

the various conferencep.: and congresses, and conventions, as they':come along, but have so long been accustomed to living in the center of things and to having their citizens come to ,thi front at the proper time, that they accept . such Incidents of their local life as a matter" of course, and refuse to become excite1 thereby. The Tatler. the miniature daily issued In the interests of literary people by the enterprising young publishing firm of Stone & Kimball. New York,; has come to an epd with its thirteenth' number. The publish ers Ingenuously explajn that what they began in a "spirit of frisWncss' suddenly assumed the proportions' of" a serious respon sibility which it was "impossible longer to treat lightly." Then they go .on to say: "It has come to the point where In justice to the Tatler and to its readers we must either give over our whole time and atten tion to the paper or stop it at once. Unfortunately, we are not free to choose, and so. we stop. This is interesting, not to say edifying, but leads people who have had some experience in real newspaper work to wonder what notion these frisky young gentlemen had concerning such an Under taking before they, began. Did they think literary news would tome to them of Its own accord, and In a shape to go direct to the printer? Did thcyhelieve that the re views, essays, poems and other contribu tions would each and' all be "available," and could be. sent lnJLiy.the office boy in sufficient quantities to fill up each edition? In short, did not these children know that an editor must edit, and that even if he got out but a slx-by-ten-inch paper each day it would keep him busy to do it properly? Evidently, as the result shows, they were not aware of all these things, but they know them now; and 'when they start a piper again they. will do it In a less frisky spirit. Meanwhile, it is a matter for regret that they could not -continue their under taking, for the Tatler, though a trifie Hip pant, had possibilities and good points. DIDDLES I THE AIR. L'AnsiJZy the Case. "I never saw a man with more veneration for a woman than Jipson." "Yes; I have nqticed that he does not seem to get along, wj&ll. In. women's society." He Lout 111 Job. "Have you steam; heat?' asked the pros pective tenant. ' And the Janitor, who had been through a "revival." could only answer, "We have steam pipes." " "'; '" More. Ilooui. Young Mrs: Fltts.- The Trolleybys have such a jewel fiVfhlred, .girl. Their floor. is actually clean enough to eat off. Young Mr. Fitts-Ry George, that ought to be right handy when he. has to carve a duck. j The Rior of the Came. "Why didn't you fellows play football in the summer?" asked the thin-blooded man. "November Is no time for outdoor games." Itatsl' said the young man in the stuffed suit. "Wheh-'erse would you find such beautify' 'm;u4'itp: rani ;the other fel low's head Info?" ' v' AUOL'T PEOPLE AXD TIIIXGS. " Marryat is given as the inventor of the word "flapdoodfrit dwlijch he used for the first time in "Peter' Simple," meaning "the stuff they feed fools on." ' Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, who long with held her patronage, of the wheel, now finds that it restores and refreshes her more than anything after. a fatiguing night at the theater. : Miss Julia Richnian, a' grammer school principal of New. York city, has undertaken the herculean task of teaching mothers to look after their 'children.-''1 Cleanliness is her hobby, and her tviafi-lA to hav the chil dren come to school' spick and span and iresn. . A prince is still a being of a superior order even in king-ridden Italy. There was an instance of. this recently when the Prince of Montenegro, entering a tobacco nist's shop In Rome qulto .incognito as he thought, bought a -package of cigarettes and threw a gold piece on the counter in payment. 1h sighji of the gold attracted attention, and in a "moment there was an eager crowd atf ttie' distinguished customer s heels shoutlng.."Niklta!'' The. Prince and his little daughter, .who was thor oughly frightened, made their way to the tjuirinal as hurriedly as they could. Very few people;1 Jrcbably, ever think of Sitka as ah 'artdtt7t'fotm,:and yet it Is 151 years since ' th 'flrat White residents of Alaska settled then. 'They -were Russian hunters who arnvc f tour years after Vitus V - .ft.'-' ... Bering , took possesion of all that part of America In the Czar's name. The hunters ruled themselves and a few. Indians until 1793, when tlie -Muscovite; nobles formed a company on the same, lines as those fol lowed by the .Hudson Bay Company and were Intrusted with, control of as much of the region as they chose to claim. Their local representative, .was a General Baranoff, who governed,. the land and all Its peo ple for thirty years. lie exercised the pow er of me ana-drain .over his subjects, or slaves, rather, and was a drunken ruffian of considerable shrewdness and ability. Governor-elect Robert L- Taylor, of Ten nessee, is going to take the lecture plat form again and give his musically inter spersed lecture, TThe Fool's l'aradlse." "Governor Taylor,", says the Memphis Com mercial-Appeal, "is free to do as he pleases and occupy his talents as may seem to him meet and proper, but: it. is scarcely possible that the people of Tennessee will feel much cause for rejoicing over the spectacle of their Governor-elejct.in the role or a pub lic entertainer, going about the country making himself ridiculous for the amuse ment nf such us ddrp to nav the nrlce of admission. The-office of Governor is the highest within the gift of the people of Tennessee, and. they cannot be expected to receive with much enthusiasm the sugges tion that the hielust honor to which any citizen may aspire .Ls to b used as an adver tisement of a minstrel performance, uovernor Taylor should resptct the wishes of his people and tho honors they have con ferred on mm more tnan enougn to over balance his fondness for spot cash." So many gods, so many creeds. So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of "being kind Is all the sad-world needs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. CAIHXET CiOSSIP. Demand for Hanna in the Cabinet L!kenel to tlwU for Blnlne in 1SHH. Henry L. Stoddard, In New York Mail and Express. T rernll thnt Immediately after the elec tion of Harrison In 1S8 there was a loud call upon him to at once make public tender tha t-it. itnrtfnlln t r Jatnt-S (I. Ultilne. I was in Indianapolis about mis time auer ha oWtlnn nni 1 know that Harrison's mail was loaded down with urgent demands that he meet the overwneiming uesire 01 Republicans for prompt recognition of lti-wm. HarrU.m. hrwver. remained silent. but every day that passed only Increased ho nrcuirfl nnnn mm. 1 ne wnoie tsiaine crowd, led byS. I. Elkins and Whttelaw TrvM upnt at him. tnouzrn. ana nnauv. along in December, Elkins. who was their spokesman, wrote the Presicent-elect from this city that further delay would make It impossible for Blaine to accept, and his absence from the Cabinet would be resented by four-fifths of -.the Republican of the country. He points out that the Blaine element nominated Harrison and that Blaine himself, when he stepped aside, nad indii intltnalu friends tlmt llilJTlson should be nominated. : It was not a long letter, but, it meant a lot. Harrison realized this fact, for two days urter the letter at thttt riiv thp ntinnunrt-ment was made from Indianapolis that James G. Blaine had been tendered the State portiono. ilrmEn'a MlnManpa In apt wii 'nnt lw. he did tint lntt-nd to name Blaine, but on the ground that he did not want to tie up any of tho places o arly In the consideration of them. He wanted to be free from definite pledges as long as possible. Tr. la n silmll:i Ht v t this time In the de sire that Is expressed for the appointment nt . MnrU Unnna to the Treasury De partment, and it would not be surprising at all if President-elect McKInley should act In the jiauna matter as narrison c.ii with Blaine, and make th announcement n.t hia selection the first to be Published. if he is to go In the Cabinet at all. In lsvs the State portfolio was the centerpiece of

the Cabinet Now the Treasury portfolio

Is" the most important, and it Is around tnai piace the Cabinet will have to be built. Harrison met the demand for Rlaine's early appointment, but he stopped there In Cabinet recognition of the Blaine element. None of the Plumed Knight's followers were Invited to seats at the new President's council table, though Elkins managed to have William Wlndom selected for the Treasury, and two years later round himself at the head or tne var Department. By that time the West Virginia statesman had come not to love Blaine less, but Harrison more, and on his shoulders fell much of the work of renominating' Harrison at Minneapolis in 1SD2 in a convention in which Elaine was the leading contestant. Such are the changes In politics. The St. Louis convention market! the end of many alliances running back for years between State leaders, such as Foraker, Fessendrn, De Young. Payne. Clarkson. Chandler. Manley, Bradley, Quay, t latt, lanner. Alger and others as well known. It will be Interesting to see how far the MoKinley Cabinet will re-form some of these lines under Hanna's marshalship, for Hanna. after all, whether he gdes into the Cabinet or not. must remain the neld general of the administration. He is to have about as hard a time of It the next four years as McKInley himself, for it is to Hanna that the practical politicians -will address their appeals for the patronage inat is not in his power to give in anything like the wholesale manner expected. Opinion among Republicans ls rapidly hocoming settled that Hanna will go into the Cabinet, and most likely at the head of the Treasury Department. Harrison and t leveiand put Elkins and Lamont in the War Office so that thev could be In the Cabinet and yet keep watch of the admin istration s political interests, and I have heard the suggestion this week that Hanna may prefer to take the same place. An additional reason for this would be the fact that the Treasury would compel him to withdraw from business connections In which all of his ambitions heretofore have been centered. No other Cabinet place would necessitate this. The pressure that is iiKeiy to decide Hanna. if he goes Into the Treasury. Is the fact that no other man holds the same close relations to the President-elect on the one hand and to the business community on the other, nor could such relations be readily established by another. A great many business men who made many sacrifices to co-operate with Chairman Hanna during the campaign are now turning the tables on him and insisting that he make this final sacrifice for them and go into the Treasury, and It is a demand that Hanna will have some difficulty in ignoring. A PEDAGOGICAL CREED. HI Kit IdenlM of a Former Superintend' ent of Indlunupolia Sohools. Prof. L. H. Jones, in New York School Journal. You ask me to write my pedagogical creed. I do not know that It differs much from the general belief of the average su perintendent of ' schools. ' However, there are some things which I do firmly believe in reference to the philosopny of education, so here I pen them. I believe that the true basis for all meth ods of procedure in education Is a. compre hensive knowledge of man as child, youth and adult; as individual and as a mesaber of society; as a being with a history and a destiny. No abstract psychology, nor any mere child study, will lay a basis sufficient ly broad, though both of them are included -k r veArAM 1 m rS' t va m 1 i Tiran V knowledge of man as a person, without regard to social and rational characteristics,: will not suffice; all phases of the human being must receive consideration. Having found man's natural characteris tics, and having discovered his possible development, we are in condition to deter mine our ideals of character "and seT up our ends of education. This concludes our first line of investigation and gives us our primary set of beliefs. . I believe that the next most necessary theme for investigation by. the student of education is the nature of the various ideas which constitute the different branches of learning, and which must constitute the means of development of the human being who by appropriate activities learns them. The teacher needs to know, at least in a general way. the precise use which each branch of learning is best adapted to serve in the proper education of the young. following the studies here indicated. I be lieve it is profitable to study methods, i. e.. the rationale of the steps by which the hu man being under guidance appropriates and assimilates these oranches of learning so as to secure his best, completest and most harmonious development. in a similar way it is necessary to study what lines of conduct must be taught i. e., what discipline must be enforced, to the end of the highest development of charac ter. I believe that along the lines here so Imperfectly sketched a theory of education may. be 'discovered which will stand the tests required of science; and which will furnish the necessary rules required for the guidance of teachers in the proper prosecution of their work. I believe that some people are born with so much tact and grace that they teach well by instinct, and that some of the best work done In primary schools is done by such people. But I have noticed that such people, after a little experience, unless they set tnemselves seriously to work to learn the science of education, become formal and artificial and lifeless In their teaching. so mat l firmly believe that the only safe way 'for all teachers is to continue to study while they teach, and to seek tnrough all the days of their teaching life for the better ways of teaching. I believe that methods devised empirical ly and used formally are of little real worth, but that methods wrought out by close observation, generous reading, and profound thinking, and applied under a high Ideal and a deep feeling of responsi bility, are full of life and worth. But I believe further that even a good method. In order to accomplish its best work In the school room, must be wrouerht out by a man or a woman of high ideals of character and achievement. The teacher must believe In a theory of education which ennobles those in whom it Is realized. I be lieve that is the best education which teaches us how we society are all joined together as a whole, for better for worse. for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health; that when one member suffereth the others suffer likewise by a humani tarian sympathy: that the criminal is one who finds himself in a state of maladjust ment to the social whole: fighting the hope less fight against etnicaiiy organized so T believe we should teach the child to spell correctly, to read readily, to write legibly and to calculate accurately. I be lieve in teaching the child the dignity of la bor through a well-arranged course of manual training. But these are the mere beginnings of education, and by confining ourselves to these we are denying to our children their divine birthright we are realty denying them as yet the rights guar anteed them by the Declaration of Inde pendence, the right to life; which is not mere existence to liberty which is not mere freedom from physical bondage to the pursuit of happiness which does not consist chiefly in the getting of money or the gratliying.oi me animal propensities. I believe In preparing the child by a very practical drill in the elements of education to earn an honest living; but I believe also in teaching him to recogrflze. what is honest and pure and sweet and wholesome in life, I believe in teaching him that work is hon orablethat drudgery mav even be divine. If Inspired and controlled by sound prin ciple, indeed, to live up to a high standard of life in a civilization still holding many of the crudities and evils of savage life re quires that each of us shall dally do manv things which In themselves are not only not pleasurable, but are positively distasteful A believe In giving the young ideals of life and character and human worth and dignity which will enable them to stand firm under all tribulations of drudge till the glorious end be achieved. In and of it self much of our dally work Is necessarily drudgery, while much of it requires that we bear large responsibilities, to endure petty annoyances, and to do disagreeable things. It Is impossible that we shall feel anv real interest in these, things by reason of anv gratification of any power of ours by any attribute of theirs. There Is. therefore, no motive to do these things unless one can be found elsewhere, but so related to' these ats as to constitute for the time beintr a valid vicarious Interest. This is a true ideal of the jovful service we can do. The end not only lustlfies the means, but glorifies It as well. The continued contemplation of the ioyful condi tions to be achieved by work for the servive of loved ones gives a pleasure akin to realization, clidinsr at 'st into the glory of acutal achievement. Happy is he In life who can so live and think and feel that the effuleent glory of his Ideal life Is thrown backward till It lights up all the pathway of his actual life. His Ideal becomes the nvicnetlc pole of his life and conduct. H will work and drudge ten hours per day If noed be that he may round his ideal family life and keep It sweet and pure under tn shado' of his own vine and fig tree. If propriy educated he will march with steadv step-to the cannon's mouth at th cnll of his patriotic 'deal, counting life and limb a mere Incidents in the series of movements by which c'vll snd relle'ous liberty are established. He will counsel to

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personal preference?. In order that the social whole may be unbroken. His Interests are so set !n the best things mat ne cannot unbend to the mean or the low. and the hlgh:sense of gratification romlng from the realiration within himself of a high grade of manhood compensates for laborious effort and freouent disappointments in external plans and purposes. 1 he. end and aim or modern euucauon requires that one locomo able to think clearly. to aspire nooiy. to uruue turvuuii, iu vmni!hl?n hrvidlv- trt dvde rlehteoiwlv and to perform ably; in short, to be a good citizen. INDIANAPOLIS IX EVIDENCE. Various Mutter That Attract Public Xotlce to It. Boston Transcript. The san1t-ils-it v nf thn Unn!r State has of the last six months. It was there that the honest-money Democrats of the country formulated that ringing protest against the betrayal and ueDaucnery 01 tne party v hlch were the outcome of the Chicago convention, and the work there accomplished, small though its direct acknowledgment may have, been in actual votes, was a potent influence in saving the country from the dangers which threatened It. A couple of weeks ago the National Farmers Concress was held In that CltV. and the closing days of the present week have heen mane very mieresiinK ami mwimcHve -tiv the meetings and discussions of the Liberal Congress of Religions, whose scone and purpose were described in theso columns several weeks ago. This is an out growth of the Parliament or liengions u hsh m unrh a significant feature of the a.-rriri'a fair at Phiraco three vears a CO. and which has been growing In comprehen siveness and mnuence ever since. Tho movement, however, which promia&a in hHntr i nribi nnpolis more prominently into notice at this time than anything else wnich has originated or oeen accompnsneu there, is that which was brought to a head, so far as possible, without co-operation by v, y,ina hv her Brvard of Trade a few days ago. The preamble and resolutions there adopted empnasizeu cuunutlon shown by the people in the. last election tn hard n sound currency, and called attention to reforms that are necessary in the existing systems, it was tnereiuru proposed to call upon the boards of trade of the leading cities 01 tne .un. ,iuic Sr.nth western States to each send four del egates to a prelimlnarr conference to bo neia in inuianapoiis. w. i. io.-u, sider the advisability of calling a larger discuss the propriety of creating a non-partisan commission, to which should be assigned tne uuiy ui uimulating a plan for the reform of the currency. ., The. value of starting out to consider currency questions upon a business and nonpartisan basis has been previously dwelt upon. Of course nothing- that such a commission might decide upn, as of most practical merit, would have any bind ing force upon congress, it is not. ueirable that It should have any. Legislation hv nmmllnn Is not always satisfactory and not strictly In accordance with our theories of government, ine peopie select . their representatives ana upon mem rests tho rosnnncihllltv .nnd the dutv of deciding in what way the Nation shall be served. But there can be no gainsaying .me neip that could be given the regularly appointed servants of the people, by a close and careful study of conditions and needs by those who are In closest touch with the forces of business, understand where Its sensitive nerves He and know by practical experience what the chief obstacles are. The whole country should be well represented in. this preliminary work. It might be easier to reacn conclusions uy seitrc-i-Inir sections but thev WOUld not DOSSeSS aa mnh ri lno F!ven if no definite results should be arrived at, the comprehensive r A tt . sii.AiH sweep or Dusmess opinion, coniuc-img though it might be on many essential points, would help to eliminate the nonessentials and relieve the underlying issues of much of the confusion that now at taches to them. The public have shown nnt nniv a wllllncness. hut an eagerness to . pursue their studies of economic and finan cial questions and we are Inclined to think thatJhe method of selecting schoolmasters proposed by the Indianapolis Board of Trade is a good one. SPANIARDS AXD BLOOD. A Aatlve Cuban Deplores Spanish Cruelty, but Excuses It. New York Mail and Express. If you didn't wait to hear the reasons for the assertion. It would sound rather odd to hear a native bom Cuban, anxious and Impatient to see his native country freed from the galling yoke of Spanish tyranny. say that he did not hiame tne spaniaros for the many atrocities charged against them, the manv outrages against decency. and the absolute lack of all semblance of human feeling in their treatment of enemies. Nevertheless, this is the feeling expressed by Dr. Jose Machado y Gomez. for many years a leading lawyer 01 Havana, and a resident there during the ten years' war. His brother was for two years president or me Assembly, ana aunng tne last days of the unsuccessful struggle for liberty was the president of the Cuban republic. Dr. Machado is now a resident of New York. "No." said he the other day to a Mall andvExpress reporter, "I do not blame the Spaniards for their butcheries. I deplore their acts, but 1 cannot, nor can any man who has a knowledge of Spain. Its man ners and customs, blame .them. No other Cple on earth are educated In the peculines that the Spanish people are educated. Their indifference to suffering ls hereditary. It Is transmitted from genera tion to generation. now 7 uy me bun ling. The babes, the boys, the young men. the old men. are its patrons, its supporters. The growing girls and the young mothers are influenced by It. All classes are Its patrons. If you have never seen a bull fight j'ou cannot conceive a sport more brutal or more degrading. It does not teach courage It implants the feel ing of ferocity and a desire to kill, a desire to see blood. This is transmitted to the children and to their children's children. Spain Is' a nation of butchers. They are incapabje of the finer fesllngs found In other people. They do not understand the meaning of kindness. They are as barbarous to-day as mey were in tne middle ages, butchers from the highest to the lowest. How can they be blamed for being natural? Can the tiger be taught to eat hay? "I do not look for the war to continue much longer than May." coitlnued Dr. Ma chado. "Spain has reached what you Amer icans say is her last ditch. Not only menaced in all her foreign possessions, but menaced much more seriously within her own kingdom. Do you appreciate the sig nificance of the exodus or young men ten thousand of them to escape military duty in Cuba? The majority of them have gone to France. We Cubans know that this means an opportunity for Don Carlos, the pretender. With his wealth and the powerful backing of the clergy, he can recruit an army and pay It well. When the time comes he can strike the blow to further his own ambition. "What. then, will happen in Cuba? Weyler, if he remains that long, will know that he can look for no support from the govern ment until the Carlists are defeated or succeed in displacing the present administration. The government will be unable to as sist him or may find It necessary to recall him to Spain to try his hand at butchering his own countrymen. In either event Cuba will be tho gainer. The time . ls rapidly approaching now when the bull fighters will have to retire irom tue .nxina.. ine star of Cuta Libre Is growing brighter ev ery day." JUS IIAY-MAKIXG TIME. Hoy Onitor Hryun In Shrewdly Har vesting the Crop ow. Kansas City Journal. Candidate Bryan Is evidently preparing to make hay while his brief sun of popularity shines and to feather- his nest with a few balloon dollars before the woes of the gold standard spread desolation over the free-silver camp, in the nrt place, he is going to write a book. Mr. Bryan, It is said, believes the publication of a vol ume written by him will be the literary event of the year. The book will contain his views on the recent slump and the causes thereof, together with a nice bi ography of himself from the unbiased pen of Mrs. Bryan, who will also contribute an-appendix containing some choice recipes for sliver cake and mixed pickle. Special articles will also be contributed by "eminent political leaders." Mr. Altgeld will write on "The Uprising In Illinois: or. How Anarchy Got It in the Neck." and Mr. Tillman will have an article on "The Pitchfork as a Means cf Grace, from a Popullstlc Standpoint." The book will re handsomely Illustrated with thirty-nine portraits cf Mr. IJryan at different periods of his eventful life, including the celebrated masterpieces by Spatterwerk entitled "Before and After Taking the Election Returns." But Mr. Bryan, like Antonio, has not all his "ventures In one bottom trusted." If the populace heeds the old injunction. "Beware of a man of one lnok." he has another sail up to catch the passing breeze. He is going to lecture. Perhaps antif"ting that the people will be too but read his book, be will talk to them a it on the platform, at so mucn per More than $!V)m) is the amount Mr. Br. expects to wring from the toiling masstj by thus taking advantage of his accidental elevation Into public notice. It Is worthy of note that the man behind this lecture bureau Is the president of an "air-lint." although It Is not to be considered for a moment that Mr. Bryan will permit him to furnish all the wind. This is the Boy Orators golden opportunity, lie can make some money If he

takes the tide at Its flood. LJt h WM have to be quick nlout It. Twtlve month fiom now he will be a Kick number, free coinage will be a defunct Issue, like greenbacklsm. and William J. Bryan will find there's none so Idle and foolish as to do him reverence. WHITE'S FOIlTY-FOtll CEXTS.

A roitncr-Stnmii Investment Tli at Yielded 100,000. Washington Post. " "I had always been a believer in the old saying that Fortune knocks once at every man's door." said Mr. Abraham White, of Boston, "and perhaps that may have inspired me to Invest that 41 cents In postage stamps out of which Mrs. White and I cleared up a little better than Jl.w.000 profit." It was at Chamberlain's that Mr. White was being Interrogated about what Is to him, an old 6tory now. the bidding of himself and wife on $l.oiO,OW of government bonds at the time Uncle Sam invited subscriptions from the Nation at large in order to replenish the gold reFerve. It. is a story, though, that will never lose its interest. "I had never bought or sold a bond in my life." said Mr. White, "but It occurred to me that here was a chance to make a few dollars with but little risk. Mre. White knew of my plans and she had been doing a little figuring on her own account, putting in a bid for a W).0iy) allotment. No other woman bidder was successful to that extent. Well, our bids went through all rifiht. though Mr. J. P. Morgan and his associates thought they had blocked my path by getting a treasury ruling that the allotments were nontransferable and that the payments for the bonds must come from tho original bidder. As they had cost me on an average of 1118 and were worth Immediately after 119. I had no diflh alty in financing such remunerative securities. I went into Russell Sage's office, explained my mission, and came out with a check, for 1500.000 with which I got all the gold needed for securing the londs. That's alout all there Is to it, and I am afraid It has given me a notoriety disproportionate to th." 6ize of the transaction." Mr. White is a man of about thirty years, with an energetic and sparkling manner, and full of good humor. He was born and reared in Texas, and when but sixteen years of age astonished veteran cotton buyers by his. dashing methods of onfratlntr in the fle.!v Kf:itil,v Ten ve.-iM ago he went to Boston, and here wooed, and won a charming little Yankee maiden,, whose pluck and wit are on a par with : his own. Since her good luck on the bondtransaction Mrs. White has made for herself not less than M0,w) by judicious In-, vestments. Her husband was not the' penniless adventurer that some of the sensational statements that got into prirlt made him. On the contrary, he had been earning a salary of 5.".oo0 a year as the Eastern representative of the Armour Packing Company, though at the time of the bond deal he had gone into business for himself. Just a few days ago Mr. White executed another exploit In the same line- that caused a goodly amount of talk In thto New York papers. It was a bid on Brooklyn bonds, to the extent of Jl,79.tw0. In payment of which he gave a check for $1.895.000. the biggest check that ever passed through the hands of the city controller. On this he pocketed the neat sum of 100.000. ... A CRANK FROM KAXSAS. The PopulUt Curo Lately Made Governor of WanlilnKton. New York Evening Post. The most expressive way of describing John R. Rogers, who has Just been elected Governor of Washington by the Populists. Is to say that he lived In Kansas for a dozen years before going to the Pacific coast and was universally recognized as one cf the greatest cranks ever bred in that State. In fact, there is the testimony of a man who was elected to Congress from Kansas by the Populists In 110 that the result was due largely to his "bold and manly stand and unceasing work." The platform on which Rogers ran is found In "The Irre pressible Conflict, a book which embodies his Ideas of finance, government and society. The author declares that "at the present time the people of the United States confront a world-wide and world-long evil, of far greater magnitude than chattel slavery was the private monopoly . of money;" that "the bar, the bench, and pulpit have become, with gome notable and soul-rejoicing exceptions, mere minions registering King Mammon's decrees:" that "good Christian gentlemen as tho world goes are reaping enormous gains by creating In this fair land an earthly hell;' that "gold is of no real value to humanity, and is only used as a means of extortion, being dependent upon ignorance and prejudice for Its power," and that "the average banker has ruined more homes and Masted more lives, a hundred to one. than the traffic in alcohol. One would say that the writer or -such stuff must be either a fanatic or a fool. But Rogers himself says that he Is neither. Since his election he virtually admits that he wrote this sort of thing purely in a Pickwickian sense "I did it to- arouso the people;" in other words, that he is an unscrupulous demagogue, ready to adopt any means to obtain office How did a State which has a small ratio of illiteracy and is credited v.ith a high average of Intelligence come tf elect such a demagogue as Governor? One reason undoubtedly is that Washington is suffering a terrible reaction from the overdone "boom" period of a few years ago, and that many voters were ready to try anything for a change. But the underlying cause was the fact that the Republican party in taught the people that the free-coinage policy was right, that the Republican State convention only two years ago indorsed the principle, that a Republican Legislature assea a free-coinage memorial, ami that tepubllcan Senators and Representatives In Congress from the State voted for free coinage. This' year the party managers had to accept the gold-standard platform . of the national convention, but they could nni unrin In a few month the wcrk which they had wrought during many years. They had sown the wind, and tney could not escape reaping the whirlwind. The BualnesH Man and the laborer. E. L. Godkin. in the Atlantic. There are few occupations whose nature prevents those who pursue them from being agreeable company to people who are simply richer. A ery !arge proportion of what are called "the bu?nes-men" know no more, read no more, i;id have no more to say than the bricklayer or the plumber, but they are apt to have hotter tastes and better surroundings and to pay more attention to dress and personal cleanliness. Oher people similarly situated, for these reasons, prefer their company. There ls no doubt that In these respects there is room for great Improvement In the habits of the working classes, but this Improvement must come from themselves. Nobody can Impose It on them. It must be the outcome of personal desire or ambition. Any. agency which helps to implant this desire or nurse this ambition is a good one. Improvement In dwellings undoubtedly does this; better education does It; Increased opportunities for harmless or Intellectual amusement, and the use ofUheTn. do it too; slowly, perhaps, but surely. In this field the mere fortunate classes cannot labor without result. A Chance for Socialists. E. I Godkin, In the Atlantic. There is no reason. In the present state of things, why Socialists should not try their experiment on a small scale. All the virtues, and the restraints, ail the spirit of self-sacrifice and mutual help which are necessary for its success are within their reach now. and could anywhere be brought into play without the help of the State. Any hundred men can work together, produce together, and divide the products according to any rules whlch they agree upon. If . successful, such associations would multiply., -cmd we should be familiarized with the idea, and be gradually prepared fcr the transformation of modern society. As a matter of fact. Kuch exiortments have several times been tried, and have always failed, except In the case of reJIgious societies with other objects than production, like monasteries, and they have failed among men devoted to the schema and full of faith in it. S Xechnnlc of Yeterdir To-pay. E. L. Godkin. In the Atlantic. " old enough to ren ember when the New Engianu mecnanr- kwi company, was Intelligent and shrewd njid often well reail-and when his plainness of dress and the mallness of his house need not have leen3iny social disadvantage. But last' winter I Afft one day. in New York, into a new hoVe. while the plasterers wer at work, and when the men. all skilled laborers, were at dinner In a lower room. I overheard them without their seeing me. Their contersatlon was profane. Indecent and slangy, and trivial. There-was not in it the sign of any desire to rise in thescale of intelligence or refinement. . It -'Is, too, within everybody's observation that that sure sign that a man luwren in the world or is rising, politeness of demeanor. Is not cultivated by-' the workings classes. On the contrary, they seem to eschew It as a sign of subservience. Anita ted. New York Mall and Express. One day the free silver organs are all afraid that General Hanna will. accept a place in the new Cabinet, and the next day they are afraid he won't. Between tlme they sit up with their Intellects, wondering why General Hanna doesn't declare himself and thus enable them to obtain a brief interval of much-uv-edtd repos.