Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1877 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY NEWS: WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22.1877.

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The Daily News has the largest circalation of any paper in Indiana, and is read In nearly every town and village tributary to Indianapolla.

The Sentinel’s endorsements are like its free personals, both written in the office.

Po6Tma8t*b-Gkn*bal Kby seems to he trying to get np a reputation as a funny man.

Fort Waynk has a German advertising swindle, hut the couneil hasn’t the nerve to step on it.

Tax Sentinel calls it “prudence’’ now. When fhere were intimations of a rumpus it looked very much like cowardice.

The Sentinel seems dreadfully afflicted at what it pleases to term “Journal mortgages.” Does it not wish that its credit was good enough for it to procure a mortgage? Its defrauded employes do.

The Sentinel is the organ of the mob. Xet the mob support ft. People who want to live and work in peace should put their foot on it. The business man who patronizes it injures the eity and his own trade.

The communistic Sentinel ought to have another endorsement from sham workingmen. The printers ought to endorse it for trying to cut down their wages again last week, like “a true friend of labor.”

The' Sentinel whines like a whipped puppy this morning, but it don’t answer the last three and the most important of the Journal’s queries. It can’t answer them because they are true.

The workingmen continue to endorse the Sentinel.—[Communistic Sentinel. Yes, they continue to endorse it by Buing for the back pay, out of which they have been kept for months and which the stockholders thought they could cheat them out of entirely.

If the communistic, red republican gen iments of the Sentinel were carried out, there would be no security for life or property. No man could work; capital could find no secure investment; there would soon he no capital, no labor; nothing but general rain.

The Hon. Will. Cnmback has just * found out that the nation is losing its high character for integrity. - At least one would judge so from a recent speech he made in Ohio. “Good ’evens,” he says, “look at the corruption!” Has the Hon. Will, been a stranger to tke political methods of this state and country the last dozen years?

The publisher of a religious newspaper quit the business yesterday in obedience to the Lord’s will, he says, because be endeavored to get help and failed. According to that definition the Lord must be on the side of the heaviest Bnbscriptians. The paper was a poor one, and never offered fair competition. It ought to have died, because it was not worth living.

The Sentinel has made its record In favor of treating workingmen humanely. —[Communiatic Sentinel. Humanely! It has ground its own workmen into the dust, cutting wages three times in two years and trying within a week to reduce them still more. It had “a financial embarrassment,” and its stockholders treated the workingmen BO “humanely,” by refusing to pay them, that some of them became paupers and were supported at public expense. There were two methods proposed for •xttacting the city from the troubles that environed it.—[The mob organ. This we believe is the first confession on the part of the mob organ that the city was ever “environed by troubles.” Heretofore it has been its stout assertion that there was* not a speck of trouble. Indeed, if a little formality, which some citizens insisted upon, called “law,” had been abrogated, there would have been that perfect freedom which the mob organ yearns for. The powerful conclusion of Postmas-ter-General Key’s speech in the White mountains, yesterday, bears a strong resemblance to one made by the late lamented Artemus Ward, who concluded an autobiography oi himself with: “I am 65 yeers old. Time “with his relentless scythe moves on. “The old sexton gathers ’em in, gathers

11 ’em in. I keep a pig this veer.” Mr. Key said: “You manufacture our cot“ton and we have mutual interests in a “common peace.” The couiss of the Sentinel during the •trike is a matter of record —[Communistic Sentinel It certainl y is, and will not be forgotten. When the danger was over and this sneaking coward thought it safe to come out, then it began its attacks upon law and order, upon society, and upon the rights of labor and property. It would have had every workingman lose his place, it would have had the town heleagned, provisions cutoff, the authority of courts despised and overthrown, life and property deprived of safety. It would have had the mob rule and liberty perish. This is its record.

Thk Sentinel has made ita record in favor of treating workingmen humanely. —[Communistic Sentinel. Yes, when it failed to pay its workmen and allowed some of them to he supported by the township. When the Sentinel company allowed itself to l>e sold out by the sheriff^o cheat its creditors, among them poor working men and women, who have not got their money yet, the rich stockholders having appealed to a higher court when sued and beaten. It has made a record and one that will stick to it forever. The workingmen of Indianapolis are denonneing it as an infamous fraud for that very record. Very humanely indeed when it has ground and oppressed them. Even the very types with which the sheet is printed are dishonest, the dress having been taken out of the depot and used when Shoemaker and Ryan and Henderson and the rest knew that the concern was going into bankruptcy and the type foundry would get little or nothing

The virtual consolidation qf the tele.graph companies will put an end to disastrous competition. Much of the telegraphing has been done at losing rates of late. But the Western Union company now has an opportunity to control the whole business for an indefinite period if it adopts a wise and moderate policy. Rates should be raised to some extent, but there is no need to put them back at the old figures and make the monopoly a burdensome one. The charges can be made moderate, and and with the reduction in expenses it ought not to he difficult to pay a fair interest on the investment. With such a course a monopoly may be retained, and such a monopoly is better for the country than reckless competition, with the results it has had in the past. President Orton hag appreciated the situation heretofore, and has reduced rates as fast as circumstances would permit. He has a greater opportunity now than he has ever had before, and we hope to see it embraced. Snobdom in New York city rejoices in an “elite directory.” It has 23,000 names. It is supposed to include everybody of note from the ancient Knickerbocker to the modern shoddyite; or, after the manner of button reckoning, lawyer, doctor, merchant, thief. These are they who live mostly above Fourteenth street and west of Third avenue, though the Knickerbocker regions of Second avenue, St. Mark’s place and Washington square are not denied place. This is the class that forms what is called “society,” that supports the fashionable churches and theaters and gives luster to brilliant social events. The directory is said to be chiefly used by tradeemen in drumming for custom, though it is also of great value in telling Mrs. Brown whether or not it is proper to invite the Joneses. If the Joneses names are not written in the book of the elite the Joneses don’t get any pasteboard. Who the autocrat is that compiles this gilt edged roster is not stated. What a beggarly scuffle there would be for his acquaintance among the Pierre-pont-like people, if he were known.

The Pennsylvania republican association at Washington dissolved yesterday in deference to the president’s civil service notions. If all those state associations can be kicked to pieces the blessings of civil service will be proven beyond cavil. Those state associations mean an enrollment of every department clerk in Washington according to his state, and a tax of a certain per cent on his salary “for the good of the party,” extra hours ot night work during the campaign and a general imposition and demand of services wherever found. One batch of men direct political speeches,' while another batch under authority forge the frank of some member of the senate or house, which carries thousands of tons of campaign literature all over the country. The postmaster knows that these franks are written by department clerks, but he belongs to the party too, so he winks and passes them. With this abuse ended we hope so see such a hearty response by the people as shall forever prevent its re-estallishment, when the democrats come into power or when another republican president succeeds President Hayes. The bald matter of fact is that when the railroad strike reached this city the Sentinel bad no counsel whatever to offer. When the strike developed into the forcible and unlawful seizore of property, the citizens armed. This armament bad the effect of loosening the unlawful grip that had been placed on

vested rights. When the Sentinel thus saw peace, and order, and law restored, and its own blackguard-mill safe from demolition, it toped to curry favor with workingmen by pretending that it advocated that strikers should do as they please—levying on people’s property, and holding it according to their own sweet will—and so by easy gradations it went on to the advocacy of the reeking code which guides the rag pickers of Paris, the sentiments which communists hold for a rule of action. When there was an appearance of hacking its blood-thirsty doctrines by deeds, it bad nothing to say. As long as there was any prospect of trouble it was quiet as a mouse, watching which way to jump. As soon as the trouble went glimmering it rushed forth and frothed and fumed and cried for“gore,” a Falstaff in everything, in beastliness, knavery and cowardice. ** ~T1IE INDIANS. Preparations for a Talk at Spokane. General Wheaton's command arrived at Spokane on the 10th inat., after eight days’ march from Lewiston, distant 105 miles. The command in carap at this point numbers 350 men, all told. Word baa been sent to all the different tribes to collect at this point to consider a settlement of the troubles. They are coming in rapidly. There are expected to be nearly one hundred chiefs and head men present at the coming council, representing tribes amounting in all to 3,517 men, a omen and children, and able to tarnish 1,500 warriors. Report says they are not well armed. There has been no actual outbreak among these Indians, bat since the war commenced theae has been a manifest uneasiness among them. There ia no doabt that all the Indiana In the section are and have been in direct communication with Joseph, and have bsen posted several days ahead of the whites of every movement of Gen. Howard’s army, and in case of Joseph's success hundreds of young men would undoubtedly have joined him, although the old Indians who have stock and farms in the country have manifested a desire to remain at peace. Sunday Walks. [Christian Union.] Sunday is a good day for the study of nature. A Sunday walk ought to be a regular part of Sunday observancs in all families that live in the country or can easily get to it. We do not recommend riding, for that generally requires some one to work—the coachman or at all events the horse, who in most cases needs his Sunday as well as folks. But no exercise can be more profitable than a qaiet walk in tke woods as the sun is setting, with the father or mother or both. That is the time to teach yonr children to oh serve thoee beauties and wonders in nature the study of which is the best and surest protection against the later assaults of atheism or even irreligion. The boy who has been taught to see God in everything will be far more likely to remember him in atter life than if he spent the same time in committing to memory a catechism which he can by no possibility understand. But do not be too didactic. Let him learn his own lessons. 11 is quite enough if you answer bis questions. Dead by tbe (.race of Rod. The Daily Witness, of New York, was published for the last time yesterday. It was started in July, 1871, by John Dougall, as a daily temperance and religious journal. As such it has not been a financial success. In his farewell to his readers the editor says: “We made a last effort to obtain help yesterday morning, and hoped for, a respose throughout the day that would show the Lord’s will to go on as heretofore. There was no response at all, and that, we think, was an equally clear indication of the Lord’s will that we should not attempt to continue a losing business.”

Safety Valve Explosion, The safety valve of the steamer Phil. Allen blew out just as she was about to leave Memphis yesterday. The noise and steam caused a stampede among the passengers, some jumped overboard and others were injured by the crush. Miss Ells LaPaugh, a correspondent of the New York bun, was severely injured. Had the boat been under way at tbe time the loss of life would have been frightful, as she was crowded with passengers. Tbe United Telegraph Companies. The Western Union and Atlantic and Pacific companies are now practically one company. They will still be ran as two companies, each retaining its old officers and general organization; bat all profits resulting from their telegraphing will be pooled. This arrangement will last for 20 years. Rate will be advanced bat only so far as shall secure a fair profit to the companies. A Sickening Spectacle. ; INew York Sunday Dispatch.] Gov. Blue Jeans of Indiana has killed himself by that little “son-in-law” affair of his. Can there be a more sickening spectacle than that of the governor of a great state soliciting favors for “ his son-in-law” from law breakers and rioters, whom he should have treated with the utmost severity? Struck by Lightning. A row boat containing five persons was struck by lightning at Omaha yesterday. George Sladge was instantly killed and Mrs. Hsger threw up her arms and fell overboard, and was swept oat of sight. The others drifted ashore. A Sunday School Parliament. The Sands; school parliament opened yesterday at Thousand Island Park, Wells Island, with an international welcome meeting, addressed by Rev. W. F. Crafts, ot Chicago, conductor of the parliament, and others. •

Fatal Fire Eecapc. 8. E. Hardman, manufacturer of Kenyon's fire-escape, was dashed to the pavement by the breaking of a band, and instantly killed, in New York, yesterday, while illustrating his invention at the Astor house. Practical Reorganization* The commiaeion investigating custom house matters in New York will recommend that experts be put in charge of the various; departments and held responsible for their conduct. Small Pox In Chicago. Over forty cases of small pox have been reported in Chicago since June 1, and the commissioners of health has ordered general vaccination.

Mr. Key’s Little Joke. It is claimed that Postmaster General Key used the words “siring brethren” as a sarcastic jest

The Pastor's Reverie. k’® eMT chair. W ith the Bible upon hit> knee, From sold to purple the deads in the west Are cbsnginc momently: Tlwsbadows heia the ▼alleys below,

ha resds,

“Not clear nor dark,” as the scripture saith.

The pastor’s mtmories are:

No day that is rone was shadowless. No nirht was without its star:

But mingled bitter and sweet hath been

Tbe portion of his enp:

"Tke hand that in love hath smitten,” he

“In lore hath bound us up.”

Fleet fiies his thought over many a field Ot stubbie and snow and bloom. And now it trips through a festival.

And now it halts at a tomb;

Young fares smile in bis reverie Of those that are young no more. And voices are heard that only come With the winds from a foreign shore. He thinks of the day when first, with fear

And faltering lips, he stood

To speak in tbe sacred place the word

To the waiting multitude 1

Be walks again to the house of Ood, With the voice of joy and praise.

With many whose leet long time have pressed

Heaven’s sate and blessed ways.

He enters again tbe homes of toil.

And joins in the homely ohat;

Be stands in the shop ot the artisan;

He sat, where the Master sat,

At the poor man’s fire and the rich man’s

feast;

But who to-day are the poor. And who are tbe rich? Ask him who keep] Tbe treasures that ever endure. Once more the green and the grove resound With the merry children’s din; He bears their shout at Christmas-tide, When Santa Claus stalks in. Once more he lists when the camp-fire roars

And now he beholds the wedding train To the altar slowly move. And the solemn words are said that seal Tbe sacrament of love. Anon at the font he meets once more The tremulous youthful pair, W ith a white-robed cherub crowning response To the consecrating prayer. By the couch of pain he kneels, again; Again, the thin hand lies Cold in his palm, while the last far look Steals into the steadfast eyes: And now the burden of hearts that break Lies heavy upon his own— The widow’s woe and the orphan’s erf And the desolate mother’s moan. So blithe and glad, so heavy and sad. Are tbodays that are no more, ?o mournfully sweet are the sounds that Beat With the winds from a far-off shore: For the pastor has learned what moaneth the word That is given him to keep — “Rejoice with them that do rejoice » And weep with them that weep.” It is not in vain that he has trod This lonely and toilsome way. It is not in vain that he has wrought In tbe vineyard aRthe day; For the soul that gives is the soul that lives. And bearing another’s load Doth lighten your own and shorten the way. And brigbten the homeward road. — [Rev. Washington Gladden in Harper's for September.

“SCRAPS.”

The street railroads of New York city use eleven thousand horses. A certain Pennsylvania iron mine has been for sixty odd years in litigation. The effect of the recent strike in checking immigration from Europe is noticed already. Boston has 481 public schools, attended by 48,718 pupils, and taught by 1,088 teachers. Booth’s theater is to be demolished and turned into French flats. It can not be rented profitably now, although the finest theater in the world. “A tale of the riots” is now going the rounds of the press. It is supposed to be another of the Sacks Home stories.— [Atrocious exchange. In Hartford a physician has been employed to go through the public schools and examine the eyes of the pupils. He found that a large proportion were more or less near sighted. An experienced traveler says the first thing he dees on entering a bed room at an inn is to read the match scratches on the wall. A violent zigzag scratch means small deer—millions of ’em. The county of Pembina, in Dakota territory, is one-fifth as large as the entire province of Manitoba. Every foot of the 130,000 acres of land in it is of the finest quality, and the population of the entire county is leas than 2,500. The St. Lonis Journal, in its mind’s eye, sees Jananscbek and Fechter playing together: “Clawt, dost thou trooly lofe me?” Then he will roll up his eyes and sigh: “Aye, Panleen, I lofe thee trooly, and will lofe thee evermobr.” Professor David Swing does not believe in boys furtively playing cards in the woodshed, or behind] locked doors, but thinks that the father of the family should pnt up a card table in the sitting room and take a hand at whist with them. “Each home should have its games as regularly as its food or sleep.” One “Boston Bob” has been tattooing about a hundred of the ingenuous youth of Philadelphia at a charge of 25 cents a head—or rather, an arm. As the artist chewed tobacco and had an ulcerated mouth, and mixed his colon with saliva, tbe consequence wsa that almost all bis customers were inoculated more or less severely with a painful and loathsome disease. Over 1,000,000 Frenchmen in 34 departments, have reported losses in the war of 1870-71 amonnting to $177,391,531, and the government has applied to their relief a som of $84,106,326 in 26 year bonds. This does not include pay of troops, clothing, transportation or purely military expenses, but only property destroyed, or taken by the enemy and contributiona exacted. Mrs. Mary J. Black, sister of Colonel R. J. Ingersoll, died at her residence in Laporte Friday evening. Daring the last week of her life her brother was with her, and to him she said in her last moments: “I would like to live, bat die content, thanks to yonr philosophy.” Colonel Ingersoll, who is now 44 years of age, is the youngest of a family of fire, and this is the first death in it. A company has been formed at Philadelphia, called “The Philadelphia utilization and fertilizer manufacturing company,” the object of which is the collection of the street dirt, ashes, garbage and ceapoai matter of tbe city, smd their utilization for fertilizing and other purposes. It is intended to collect the garbage and refuse without any cost to the city or to individuals.

THE INDIAN FA .WINE. Williosu ot People la Dlvtreee—LlwIng for RencraUons Us Rreat Poverty—Waiting Death 1st Vsurt Encampment*—The Famine District Not as Province, bnt a Continent. [From tbs London Spectator.] The approaching famine in southern India, a misfortune to all men, and to the sufferers a terrible calamity, it is to him at once a misfortune, a calamity, and a moral vexation. It involves, in addition to endless direct and horrible consequences to the people affected, the temporary paralysis of progress throughout India. There ia stUl a chance, a bare chance, that a catastrophe mey be averted —the reins suddenly recommencing; but this is August 5, no such occurrence is, within ordinary experience, and we mast, we fear, make up our minds to a second year of comparatively total drouth. This is evidently the opinion of the Indian secretary himself, who on Saturday, in a speech at Cooper’s hall, prepared the yonng engineers and.the world for that most heart-breaking of calamities, a famine, in which hundreds of thousands die of actual starvation. That, and nothing less, will be the result of a second year of famine, should it once fairly close in upon the people of sonthem India. In the threatened districts of that vast tract, equal to seven Englands, there live certainly fearteen million, and more proba bly twenty million of people, nine-tenths of whom suw entirely dependent upon the crops for subsistence, while one-third, at least, live from hand to month, never a month before the world, and usually in a condition which in this country would be described as one of extreme and dangerous destitution. Even among them there is a “residum,” still more deplorably situated. There are at least one million of persons in the- Madras presidency whose whole property, including their clothes, would not in a good year aell for ten shillings, who are absolutely dependent for aubsistence upon minqte payments in kind or an almost imperceptible share in a small crop, and who in a year of tiroath, when the crop is dead and the grain wages unprocurable, have literally nothing but their waist-cloths, conld not—we usb the words in their most literal and dreaded meaning—keep themselves alive for forty-eight hours without assistance from the state. Owing partly to historical oircnmstances, partly to these peculiarities, bnt principally to the long prevalence of the worst land tenure ever devised by the wit of man—a tenure that seems to economists to have been invented by some socialist in a fit of delirinm—they have lived for generations in snch poverty, under so near an approach to actuah-hanger, that they have no stamina, and perish under any new harden like insects in rain or fish in an accidentally poisoned river. They “tend to death,” the pitying bnt worn-out surgeons say. Upon this population, these «sixteen millions already so tried that they sell their poor jewels, their sole surplus, at the rate of £80,000 a month, by the mint accounts alone—upon the three millions more who have passed this stage, have sold all, and are giving np the struggle—upon this one million, who have given it np already, and are waiting death by disease in the vast encampments fed by the state, there is about to descend the unspeakable horror of a second year of want—six more months at least during which nothing will be attainable, not even grass, except from tbe state alms. There is no wealth in the Madras presidency, as Englishmen understand wealth, and there never has been any. Portugal, tne Canton of Unterwaiden, the Circle of Archangel, the Scottish Orkneys are well off beside Bellary. The state alone is rich, and the slate must do all, under conditions which may well make a secretary of state feel as if he could no longer understand what hope was. The new famine district is not a province, it is a continent. The villages are scattered, tbe population thin, the people, as Prof, Monfer Williams recently painted them, though indnstrions, uuenergetic. There is not one great and navigable river. There is throughout bnt one railway, and in districts like kingdoms no railway at all. There are few roads worthy of the name. As Lord Salisbury expressly mentions, food, if sent to the villages, must be sent in carts drawn by oxen, which eat nearly all they carry, and can not under any urgency do steadily twenty miles a day, and even that exhausting and wasteful device is probably beyond the power of the government to adopt. In the famine-stricken districts there are no cattle left. Their fodder perished first, and the few beasts still left alive are, as Mr. Williams described them months ago, far too weak for draught The government, no doabt, could send down thousands of the beautiful cattle of the north, beasts that would excite the pride of a Lombard landlord; but they can not live on air, they can barely carry their own food—recollect their pace, and that they have to return—and they can not, even to save human life, be used as food. Even tbe dying would rise in insurrection at the thought of such unholy dirt. There is nothing for it but “relief centres,” and relief centres under such circumstances imply bursts of depopulating disease. Let any soldier acquainted with camps think of encampments with fifty thousand souls in each—men, women and children—all arriving half fed, and living oa half rations, stationed by streams and tanks for the sake of water, scarcely housed, and living amid tropical odors and miasmas, and ne, at least, will recognize all the elements of tbe new disease which first •truck Lord Hastings’ camps ia the Pindame war, and has 'ever since terrified the world as Asiatic cholera. The prospect is appaling, bnt if the second vearof famine falls—and Lord Salisbury believes it to be falling—there is no remedy that man can apply. We are carefully avoiding exaggeration when we say it is not only possible, it is imminent y probable, that the population of southern India will this year be redneed by four millions who have perished from hanger, and the disease which hunger long continued leaves behind in its train. The prospect is appalling, and the responsibility of the secretary of state almost too great to bear. If he fonght the famine as he fought it in Behar, fought it as he would a campaiga, with no thought except for victory, scattering money as if it were seed, he might succeed in averting not all, bnt a great part of the calamity ; but he would spend, on a moderate estimate, £20,000,000—that is, he would, for five years, at leavt, paralyze the progress of tbe Indian government. It would be absolutely necessary that, during that period, nothing but the barest work of administration should be attempted. that public works should be restricted to works of maintenance, that education should be forbidden to expand, that no new department should be created, that ne new tax should be levied, that any and every existing abuse which it would be costly to remove should be temporarily tolerated. Every service must be pared down to subsistence limit, every proposal involving expense most bs rejected, and tbe empire must be governed like an estate belonging to an owner absent on tbe continent to retrench. Ail that is inevitable, and all that involves hardship—net to tbe Madraseees, who may fairly bear it as the will of heaven, and who, to do them scant jnstioe, do bear it with sm acquiescent resignation that touches those who can see it to the quick—bat U^be peoples of regions as prosperous as xhey are miserable, people who deem themselves

entirely irresponsible, and who, but for tbe British rnle, would only show their symlathy ss one nation of Europe sometimes shows it for anotbsr. Bengal, ruling itself, would possibly subscribe £109,000 for tbe peopleof Madras. * Under British rule, it will bare to subscribe without its own consent tbe interest or tbs loans to be raised, which may amount, if the work is effectually done, to £20,080,000. Why should Bengal thus be deprived of tbe advantages nature and the unrelaxing icdustry of its sixty million psopls have secured to it? We do not wonder that under snch circumstances many Augolndians maintain that the needful expenditure ought not to be incurred that the calamity should be endured, like an earthquake or a sea wave or an outburst of cholera, as a visitation from on high, under which man can only mourn, and that the British government of India ought to affirm once for all that it is no more responsible for the crops or for the failnn than it would be held to be if tbe conaeqaenoes of that failure stopped short of actual death. Wa should not pravent pecuniary rain, they argue, or tbe spread of disease, and why Interfere because tbe calamity to-day sends thousands, millions, to a premature instead of to a later grave? The attempt is too great for man, and in making it tbe government mortgages the futnre of unborn millions in a vain effort to secure that which God or nature has decreed can not be secured. It is needful, they say, to be as hard as Providence is, and to stand aside in silent pity until the calamity be overpast. We are not blind to the force oi these arguments, and on one point we recognize their truth. The government would have no right to destroy the Indian empire even to secure tbe physical safety of a portion of its inhabitants. Its responsibility to the whole of its subjects is greater than its responsibility to any section of them. It must not terminate forever its power of mitigating famines by a ruinous effort to extinguish one. But the step between reasonable effort and self-destructive effort ia a long one, and still rain is in sight, at leastln a far distance, the effort should be continued, regardless of all minor consequences. The governmentof India most, we hold, strain every nerve to keep its people alive—must, that is, daring the time of drouth, feed them with sufficient food to keep them in reasonable health. If food actually can not bs sent to the villages, or sent only at an expense which wonld destroy all prospects of future grants in relief, then, of course,even human life mnst give way before neceesity, and the people must perish as if a new disease had broken out. That this will be the actual result in thousands of villages we see, unhappily, no reason to doubt, unless the expected rain should fall. Bnt straight np to the uppermost limits of its power, exerted as it would be exerted to feed armies, the government is bound to strain itself to keep people alive. Whatever it costa the state must do its best, must multiply relief centers, must double or treble relief officers, must employ native assistance, and and mast pash on the accumulation of food, by facilitating private enterprise, if possible, and if that is not possible, by making purchases on its own account. It is weary work, hateful work to men who know how progrese in India depends on the condition of the finances, but it Is work; which

a Christian government that pleads ita higher morale as the iustifloationtof for an otherwise inexcusable conquen can not rightfully refuse to undertake. The state must, In fact, do in this crisis what private men are compelled to do every day—go straightforward, do the duty of the day as ft arises, and leave the ultimate consequences in the hand of the God it has obeyed. There is no path decent men can traverse to evade the duty of

supporting southern India.

A mechanical Hone. A mechanical horse has been showing his paces at Berlin. The rider is mounted 'on a hobby between two high wheels and moves his legs in rising and falling in tht saddle, and tbe machine goes along as (ast as a fast-trotting berse. Ft is all the same whether the machine goes geatly over the stones or moves swiftly on the hard high road, and the facility with which the strange steed tnrns ronnd corners excites the admiration of all beholders. The inventor believes that his horse will be of great use to porters for carrying light loads, and he has confident hopea that it will be highly appreciated by the numerous classes who are fond of eaddle exercises, bat are too poor to bay and maintain bones of flesh and blood. It is even suggested that the mechanical horse will make an excellent charger on the battlefield, ae it is an animal that can neither eat nor die, The Channel* of Exit From the human system bear the same relation to it as sewers are to a city. They carry off the waste, the reiuse which it is essential to remove in order to prevent disease. One of the most salutary effects of Uostetter’s Stomach Bitters Is to renew aotivity of the bowels when these organs are derelict in their duty. The bilious and dyspeptic symptoms which accompany constipation are alao remedied by this sterling alterative. Its gently eathartio action has the effect of removing impuritieg which would otherwise poison the system and its tonie influence is exhibited in an increase in vital power. It renews appetite, soothes and invigorates the nerves, prevents and remedies malarial fever, and is a first-rate remedy for despondency. ta o?

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