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THE FUTURE OF PARTIES. The break-up of the old parties, the New York Evening Post says, could not be more strikingly exemplified than in the appointment of Jackson to the Supreme bench and Gresham to the Cabinet, the appointers and appointees being of opposite politics—accepting this as true of Gresham, which ia at once the complaint and charge of Bourbon Derooerats like the New York Pun. The Post shows by figures of the last* election that in New York, Ohio and Indiana Harrison lost votes while Cleveland gained, bnt the loss was larger than the gain. This the Post takes os an indication that voters eifough to turn the scales are in a waiting attitude. They could not indorse McKinley ism, which had come to be the liall mark of Republicanism, but they gers ndt yst ready to declare themselves Democrats. Their future attitude will depend upon what Democracy is to mean hereafter. Therefore, in any large view of statesmanship, the problem before the Democrats is bow to Luild up the party; and a great deal of light is thrown upon this by the building up of the last great party in our history, namely the Repub' lican organisation, which, coming into being in 1854, carried every Northern State, except New Jersey, where the vote was divided, in I860. The chief reason for thii was the hearty welcome which it extended to men who sympathized with its principles on the slavery *od war issues, no matter bow earnest prominent they had been in the Democratic party. The call for its first national convention in 1856 was addressed “to the people of the United States, without regard to past political differences or division,'’ who were opposed to ths extension of slavery. The same year it nominated for Governor of Maine Hannibal Hamlin, who, until a few weeks before the convention, had always been a Democrat. It nominated David Tod for Governor of Ohio in 1861, who had been a life-long Democrat, and who way the first vice-president of the Democratic national convention at Charleston In 186C. Abraham Lincoln appointed to the Supreme bench Stephen J. Field, who was and Is a Democrat, and Stanton to be Secretary of War, who had sat in the Cabinet of a Democratic President less than a year before. With the wise leaders of the Republican party of those days the question was not whether* a man had been a Democrat, but whether he supported the principles of the Republican party. ludeed, the fact that he had been a prominent Democrat was likely to make him the more welcome, for it was probable that he would bring with him a host of men who believed in him. The shrcwdqyt politician as well as the ablest statesman of them all, Lincoln, offered the Treasury Department to Guthrie, of Kentucky, who had been a Candida;* for the Democratic nomination at the Charleston convention. One of Lincoln’s biographers says that he would gladly have taken Mr. Stevens, of Georgia, into his Cabinet, but for the fear that Georgia might secede and take Mr. Stevens along with her. He did place a seat at the disposal of Gilmer, of North Carolina, who, finding that his State was Kkely to secede, was reluctantly compelled to decline it So much for the building up of the last great party that was built up in our history, and for the part that its great man, Lincoln, played in it Cleveland can certainly find no better model than Lincoln, either as a politician or as a Statesman. The Post farther well says: The Democratic party has long been too mueh of a Sectional party, with only an uncertain footing in Indiana of all tha great Western States. Cleveland apparently sees that the most essential thing is to broaden it so that It may not only retain Illinois and Wisconsin, which it has just carried for the Ant time sine* 1858, but win over other neighboring States which really believe in the Democratic policy on the tariff, but still retain a suspicion of the Democratic organization. As Lincoln strengthened Republicanism in the West thifty yean ago by giving a Cabinet office to a Western Democrat who had served under Buchanan the previous year, so can Cleveland strengthen Democracy now by inviting into his Cabinet a Western man [Gresham] who served under a Republican President only a few yean ago. To do a thing of this kind no President since Lincoln, perhaps, has had better warrant Mr. Cleveland occupies the unique position of a man defeated for the presidcncy and then chosen at the succeeding election for a Second term on an issue clearly made by himself. Further, no Presided was more entirely the candidate of the people. The politicians of his party largely hated him and hate him. They opposed his nomination and some of them would hare welcomed hie defeat at the polls. Ha waa nominated and elected by the people. No President since Lincoln ever had his message more directly from the people and for none perhaps did mere men of the opposing vote or refrain from voting against, there circnmstances ha ia President United States for four years. No office is for hltn; the welfare of

tha peepte and hit place in Littery are all ha has to lire for; and he lives at a thus when a break-up and reformation of parties are foreshadowed by the advent of ideas on the stage or action.

tse legislature and eobt. The Legislature should purge itself of contempt In the forum of decent public opinion by reviewing its extraordinary action in hastily adopting the scandalous Roby report. The report has excited derision not only throughout this State but through the country. Decent people everywhere are amased at the unblushing audacity of tha performance. No one would have believed before the fact that any possible committee that might have been appointed by the Legislature of the great State of Indiana could have consented to play Into the hands of the managers of a vile racing-gambling-house in •o open a manner. Self-respecting Northern States have forbidden the winter-sac-ing iniqnity. We have had no law here on the subject because none was supposed to be necessary. Winter racing ii a new evil. It is only a few years since it was developed. Its eiid and object is to afford something to bet on. It is not sport Horses of good reputation are not allowed to run. .What horseman of humane instincts wonld speed a horse over a slush or ice-covered track, or when the mercury is near or below the zero point? Every one knows that winter racing as practiced on these gambling tracks is a form of cruelty to animals. The whole thing is degraded and degrading. It has its origin in cupidity. It is created oqjy to pander to the gambling instincts in men. On these hippodromes the poolrooms and fake “telegraph companies” live to prey on the public. They exist for the pool-rooms and only for the poolrooms. No one goes to a winter race-course u> see the racing. At Guttenburg and Gloucester, at Roby and Hawthorne the so-called races would be run if there were no people in the grandstand at all. The races are incidental; the betting is the real tiling. Some of our legislators, in discussing the wonderful committee’s wonderful report, referred to the pool-selling going on within a narrow radius of the legislative chamber in palliation of the pool-gambling at Roby. Yes, we have it “in our midst,” along with other forms of gambling in the presence of which our authorities suffer phenomenal myopia. But on what do these pooi-rooms here exist? Why, on winter racing at Roby and similar places of iniquity throughout the country. Here is another thing not to be lost sight of. The reputable horsemen of the country are opposed to winter racing. They know that it i4 hurtful to horses. They recognize that it tends to bring decent racing into bad repute. If racing solely and simply for the benefit of gamblers and gambling bouses goes on with its demoralizing influence much longer there will be such an outbreak of the moral sentiment of the community that all racing will fall into* disfavor. It seems to be impossible to have races without more or less betting. But races in ths summer time haye something to them besides the betting. Multitudes of people delight to see trials of speed who never make a bet. But winter racing has not a single redeeming feature. And no decent man was ever yet found to say it had, til! the Legislature of Indiana discovered Messrs. Johnson, McMahan and Sulzer. __________. ABOUT PARKS. To the Editor ol The Indianamilis News: Indiansoolis is now a city fast attaining proportions which will soon place it among the large cities of our land. W ith this development comei the regret, from the present outlook, that she will possess no spot of beauty in the shape of a suitable park, for her people. A park, to secure the greatest good to the greatest number, should not be too far distant and should possess as much natural beauty as possible. Such a spot, large and easily accessible, is the arsenal grounds. Of very little use to the Government, these grounds could probably be purchased at a fair market price, which, at present value, would be well worth the expenditure. The buildings, at least some of them, could be easily utilized. A Subscriber. We do not agree with our correspondent as to the arsenal ground for park purposes. It could not be purchased, to begin with, and it is not desirable anyway. On account of the railroad tracks it is not accessible from any quarter of the city where a large preportion of the peopla live. But beyond all question Indianapolis is sadly in need of parks. Not one does it own. Nothing more beautiful than Fairview Park could be had or is to be wished; but that is private property and is not so accessible for all park uses as is to be desired. Seventyfive thousand dollars expended on Garfield Park would make it a place of beauty indeed, a park in fact as well as in name. Or that amount of money to buy land along Fall Creek would make a delightful prospect. Or $75,000 expended in buying squares of ground in two or three different places in the city making small parks for the resort of different neighborhoods would be money most wisely expended. We have no money for these tilings, however! But it is proposed that we shall be taxed to raise so much money to be expended in three days’ entertainment of a private society. A sewer system that will cost millions of dollars has got to be created. We are already beginning it now. Street improvements are wanted and will be pushed. These things cost money. Meantime we are utterly without parka, and with no provision for them in the future, and such provision will be increasingly difficult. But it is proposed that we shall take $75,000 from the people by taxation and hand it out for a private purpose.

The death of General Beauregard removes almost the last of the great generals of the Confederacy. Generals Longstreet, Gordon and Kirby Smith are still living. Gen. Joseph B. Johnston died about two years ago. Gen. Beauregard graduated from West Point second in a class of forty-five and after a short ttrxn of service in the artillery was appointed to the corps of engineers. His services in the war with Mexico were of such character a* to win for him several promotions. On the eve of tha civil war he was appointed superintendent of the West Point Academy, but resigned a few months before open hostilities began. He waa in charge of the defense of Charleeton, and H waa he who conducted the fin upon Major Aaderaon’s force in Ft Sumter. He waa In of the confederates in the first Bull Ran. Thus he was practically the first Confederate officer of distinction in the field. He held various commands until the dose of the war, surrendering with Johnston to Sherman In 1888. The feast creditable part of his lift was his connection with the Loeisiana lottery, to which he lent his name through many years.

the army of Roumania. and, again, of the army of Egypt, both off which ha defined. General Beauregard waa 8 skUlftd engineer, both as an officer of the army and as a civilian. Some of his schemes for military operations were too radical for Jefferson Davis, gad after the war there were a number of disputes between "the ex-President of tee Confederacy and tee ex-General as to errors which had contributed to tee defeat of the Confederacy. Davis had been jealous of Beauregard’s popularity, and be removed him from the command of the Southwestern army to a place where he was leas likely further to distinguish himself. Bomb more of tee good old-taahioned winter. The row in the Democratic Legislature is rapidly developing a Kansas phase. This talk of the Roby committee about that track’s relation to the horse-breeding intereste of tee State is enough to make a horse—even a poor, abused winter-raee-horse —laugh. ____________ The Texas bride, who married her lover in jail, helped him to bind the jailer and escape, adopted the Kilgore methods of romance. The proportion on our street care will be two standing men to one sitting crinoline.

Mb. Foraxbh says he is test retiring from politics. He is just one stage behind Whitelaw Reid. Ip, as has been alleged, Mr. Gresham sometimes plays poker, the singular enthusiasm of Henri Watterson is easily accounted for.

The boast has been recently made in navy circles that not one of their soldiers was convicted of desertion during the late war. The reason may lie in the fact that it was

pretty hard to swim ashore.

In spite of declining freight rates shipbuilding went on last year at a prodigious rate. Of merchant vessels there were built in the United Kingdom in 1892 512 steamers of 861,356 tons, and 169 sailing ships of 268,59^ tons; in all other countries, 147 steamers of 126,210 tons, and 223 sailing ships of 121,885 tons, or a total of steam 967,566 tons, and of sail 890,479 tons. During the year there were “totally lost,” “broken up,” etc., about 279,G0(LL tons of steam and about 371,000 of sail, , showing the net increase to the tonnage of tfie world to be about 688,000 tons of steam, and about 20,000 tons of sailing tonnage, or a grand total of about 708,000 tons. There are more steam vessels than the trade of the world can profitably employ. The big new steamers drive the smaller and older ones out of commission long before their usefulness is exhausted. Steamers can be bought for less than the cost of construction. In a speech at a dinner in London a few days ago Mr. S. Williamson, a member of Parliament, in discussing the bearing of protection on the shipping interest, said: What have protection and illiberal navigation laws done for American shipowners, mariners and shipbuilders? If our shipping interest is at present languishing, theirs Is at death’s door. They have a monoply of their la: ge coasting trade. By an abuse of terms, they call the large oversea traffic between their Eastern seaboard and California a coasting trade, and, to the hurt and detriment of many classes of their own citizens, they refuse to allow foreign ships to be employed in it. Just now American vessels get 30s per ton from New York to San Francisco. British ships at the present time would be glad to carry their cargo for 15s per ton. which is ss much as they can get for coal or iron from a British port. Thus the iron rails, hardware, coal and balky rough cargo, so largely required on the Pacific coast, are all made to cost a very large additional price to the community there. In order to maintain unreasonable and antiquated tonnage regulations which do no good to anybody. not even to the American snip-builder. American ship-owners, if their laws permitted.

would last lor generations, at less cost than the present selling value of many of their old leaky wooden ships. To compete with the steam tonnage of other nations in other directions through the Nicaragua canal, or through the Suez canal, will, without large bounties, be an utter impossibility for American shipowners. » Poutical troubles having quieted down in Kansas, it is highly probable that the grasshopper is now beginning to smooth his wings and sharpen his nippers. , lx doth not yet appear that Mr. Wanamaker has subjected his maii-tube system to the supreme test by sending a Columbian stamp through it. The New York Recorder celebrated its second anniversary last Sunday by Issuing an edition of sixty-four pages. The auccess or this paper is one of the greatest achievements of modern journalism. Within twentyfour months it has attained the rank of second in circulation and third in advertising business among New York dailies. During that time it has built a home tff its own, thoroughly equipped with the latest appliances. Its composition ia done by the Mcrgenthaler machines. The Recorder’s methods have been decidedly original from the first. Congratulations are certainly due to Mr. Turner, the publisher, and all others connected with him.

The Reading appears after all to have been only a narrow gauge. Those persons who idly dream of a political millennium should remember that the Populace still exist.

Cahbnsleyism has received a severe blow from Apostolic Delegate Satolli, who decrees that tha sermons following mass in certain New Jersey churches must be delivered in English. These churches are in Bishop Wigger’s diocese, where Oahensleyisri has flourished, and this is, apparently, another denotement of Pope Leo’s sympathy with a stalwart Americanism. He seems inclined to follow the current of our best inclinations and not to resist tendencies which are an important and characteristic expression of our national life.

Now that Roby is frosen out, maybe the famous committee which whitewashed it will move for an appropriation to pat it on Its feet again. There is no full moon this month, but Hoke Smith his appeared in the empyrean aa fresh and brilliant as a rainbow.

Let ns keep strictly to the facts, whether the seventy-five-tbousand-dollar tax is levied on the city of Indianapolis or not. One fact is that Columbus did entertain the G. A. R. well, and did not raise a cent by taxation. Milwaukee appropriated 450,000. Judging by the comments of a leading paper there, public opinion is now not altogether happy over that appropriation. Detroit gave $80,000.

The monotony of peace In South American politic* became too great to be endured. A revolution ia in fine progress in Ecuador.

Ir ths worst comes to the wont, Governor Matthews ha* the militia back of him.

History of the Fuchsia. ’ [Meehan’S Monthly for February.l It is said that the first fuchsia was introduced into England by a sailor from Chile, in 1746, A plant from this was sold to an English nurseryman for over $460. Between 1830 and 1840 hybrids became rather common. The modem race of fuchsias dates from -the introduction of fuchsia fufeens. The whitecorolla varieties appeared in 1865, Hie raiser of them, dying about the tima that they were produced, left no knowledge as to how he obtained them. There are a large number of specie* in South America, many of them in manv respect* far more beautiful than the hybrid varieties, but not having been poshed by florists, they have, in a great measure, gone out of cultivation.

▲watted in Breathless Suspense. , [New yo*k tote. 1 With a giddy, gushing oil well spreading oil son toward from the neighborhood of Toledo, and the Hon. Joseph Benson Foreker speeding northward from Cincinnati in a spout of fire, the moment of contact is awaited by men of science in a hash of

An Open Secret. Deep in my dear one’s trusting ayes Thaw ia a secret lying. In vain she hktes It gainat surprise. For love shines oat undying. It speaks, too, In her dulcet vote#, . Lore there aloud ia crying) It bids my wistful heart rejoice. For love lies there undying. E’en when my dear one walks or movas, To hide It though she’s trying, Her every gracious m ivensent proves That love lies there undying. -{A. St. Johnston in the Magazine of Art. “Out Own.** We have careful thought* for tee stranger And smiles for the coming guest; But oft for our own The bitter tone, . . Though we love “our own” tha beat! Ah! lips with the carve impatient, Ah! brow with that look of scorn, Twere a cruel fate Were the night too late To nndoThe work of the morn! —{Margaret E. gangster. “SCHAJPS.”

The heart of s Greenland whale ia a yard In diameter. There are said to be 512,500 telephones in this country. A fashionable scarfpin is an imitation of George Washington’s sword. Wolves are reported to be killing deer in large numbers in several counties of Michi-

gan.

Twenty-two boy pupils of a school at Milton, Ore., were recently expelled for smoking cigarettes. Aluminum tobacco pipes are among the latest inventions. The ho*!, however, is lined with meerschaum. The average weight of the Chinese brain is said to be heavier than the average weight of the brain of any other race. The Florida coast has a floating hotel which moves from place to place, wherever the best Ashing happens to be. Mr. and Mrs. John Ballinger celebrated the seventy-sixth anniversary of their wedding at Msttoon, III, on Saturday. “Yes,” said the waiter, “everything firstclass. Our steaks and wines are rare old articles, sir.”—[Cleveland Plain Dealer. There are between seventy-five and eighty thousand negroes living at the national capital in Washington, and thehr wealth is now very large. A Philadelphia girl who gives dainty little o o’clock tea parties has the sugar plums specially tinted to exactly match her soft, silken tea gowns. An Unkind Insinuation: “I like to sit before a fire and write,” said the poet. “Yes; it must be pleasant for a manufacturer to have a consumer constantly before him,” returned the Cynic.—[Puck. A resident of Kansas City, Mo., who took out a license on Monday for a dog under the name of Christopher Columbus, was much surprised to find that the Lumber 1492 was stamped on the license. A customer in a Philadelphia oyster-house asked for a “Cleveland stew” the other day. The waiter looked puzzled and asked the customer what he meant by a “Cleveland stew,’* whereupon the man proudly replied, “Why, good and big, see?” "I assure you that I am innocent of the crime for which I am sent here,” said the new prisoner. “Oh, get out!” yelled the warden. “Thank you. I shall be delighted,” replied the unfortunate as he started for the door.—[Detroit Tribune. Rubinstein, the pianist, it is declared, would become an American citizen if it were not for objections of his wife. He is quoted as saying: “I am a Russian of Russians; but I am also a republican, and America is the land for those that love liberty.” American Bear and Eagle Elk, two Sioux Indians, who were taken to Sydney, N. S. W., as part of a sort of Wild West show, are in the hands of the police at that place. They broke their contract, then went broke themselves and soon joined the profession of tramps. Down on one of the riverside streets the other day a “HereVare-now” fakir was croaking the virtues of a balsqm that would cure any cough or cold in an hour. He did a fair business, too, and the funny part of the thing was that he was so hoarse himself that he could hardly bawl.—[New York Sun. Some of the flower badges of nations are as follow: Athens, violet; Canada, sugar maple; Egypt, lotus; England, rose; France, fleur-de-lisj (lily); Florence, gigilo (lily); Germany, cornflower; Ireland, shamrock leaf; Italy, lily; Prussia, linden; Saxony, mignonette: Scotland,thistle; Spain, pomegranate, and Wales, leak leaf. A Prussian official mining expert has made investigations pf the coal strata of the world, and expresses the belief that the coal deposits of Austria-Hungary, France and Belgium will be exhausted in five centuries at most Those of Great Britain and Russia will follow, and last of all the German strata will give out. The Americao supply, he expects, will not last longer than the European. The Rev. Albert G. Lawson, D. D., at the Conwell jubilee service made the statement

him: “Why is Boston called the Hub?” He was electrified when the aged philosopher, with one of his subtle, flashes of wit, responded: “Boston is the Hub because out of it go spokesmen of the wheel of man^ kind who never tire of doing good fellows.”—[Philadelphia Record. Last week a small boy, whose Abie Adams, was sent out to the refuge in Cincinnati for stealing $10 grocer in his neighborhood. A few days ago Mr. R. A. Holden, who is one of the refuge directors, went out to visit the boys, and among others he came across Abie. In his fatherly way Mr. Holden patted the boy on the head and told him to be good and not steal any more, and particularly not to steal

An American naval officer says that once when a great function took place in the harbor of Cherbourg several vessels of our Atlantic squadron were present and were drawn up in line to salute the -Empress's yacht as it passed. The French sailor* manned the yards of their ships and shouted: “Vive 1’Imperatrice.” Knowing that he conid not school his men to repeat those words in the brief time left to him, the American admiral ordered his crews to cry: “Beef, lemons and cheese!” The imperial yacht came sweeping on, and as it reached the fleets mighty roar went up of “Beef, lemons and cheese,” that entirely drowned the voices of the Frenchmen. And the Empress said she had never been so complimented. A passenger train on the B. A O. ran into Woodstock, W.Va., a day or two ago, with a milch cow standing on the engine’s pilot, chewing her cud as placidly and calmly u if that mode of travel was an ordinary affair of daily occurrence. The engineer saw a cow standing on the track a short distance ahead of the train when about a mile out of the town, and as it was impossible to stop the train, he opened the throttle wide and went at the animal with a rush, expecting Instead

mentum of toe train carried her up on toe engine’s pilot, where she was lodged safely and without injury when the train came to a stop. When the cow was lifted off, she walked away quietly and unconcerned. The steamer Huron* which reached New York from Leith toe other day, had trying experiences. One day great maaaea of water surged over her and carried everything movable before them. William Atchison, a young Scotch seaman, was caught unawares and hurled ont to sea. One Of toe seamen saw his body under the stern of the ship. Planks and life buoys were thrown out, and although to venture into the rolling seas meant almost certain death, five seamen stood ready to man toe lifeboat. Bnt it was impossible to launch toe boat Three diva later the heavy seas again rolled over the resseL She would not respond to the helm, tnd, nearly on her beaut ends, lay unmanageable and helpless m the trough *f tha sea. James Dakefs, one of tf* office^, was •tending near toe stack lashfeg a span/when a mountainous sea boarded the ship and carried him off Before the eye# of the erew he was tossed about like a cork. There was no way of giving him assistance. Just

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THOLLET HHW8 NOTES.

Steinway, N. Y., Is being eqaipped with

a trolley system.

Massachusetts has sixty-one distinct elec-

tric railroad companies.

Pekin and Peoria, III., are toon to be con-

nected with a trolley road.

Frederick and Hagerstown, Md., are to be

connected by a trolley line.

In a short while every street line in Alton, 111., will be operated bypthe current. Hot Springs. Arc., is to have a doubletracked electric road four miles long. The Des Moines (la.) Trolley Company is to erect a depot that will cost $25,000. Philadelphia has more miles of surface tramway than any other city in the world. Lingleitown, Pa., is to have an electno railway, and it U possible that this town will soon be connected with Harriebnrg by

this means.

The capital stock of toe new Englewood and Chicago electric street railway, of Chicago, is to be $1,000,000. Armour, Pullman and other large capitalists are inter-

ested.

In Massachusetts electric raflroading has come into such extended use that it is now treated in a separate section by the railroad commissioners when making up their an-

nual reports.

St. Louis, already a network of electric roads, is to have another. It is expected that this road, whose route lies through new country, will boom some of the outly-

ing districts.

The electric railway system of Albany, N. Y., is so arranged that the whole city is practically supplied from a central station. Power for over thirty miles of railway is

supplied from this point

A franchise has just bean granted for an

electric railway between Cumberland and

rt, Md., a distance of thirty miles.

Western

tv esternport. Md., a distance of thirty miles. The road will take in nearly every town in

Allegheny county, Maryland.

Oklahoma, like the progressive territory she has been from her inception, is not at' all behind the times in the matter of electric railroading. Guthrie has already granted a franchise for a trolley road three miles in length, and work will be begun on it at

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President Dodd, of the North Hudson County (N. J.) Railway Company, says that by adopting the trolley better accommodations can be provided for the traveling public, quicker time made, and cars can be run at more frequent intervals than is possible under any other system. Worcester, Mass., is to have a new trolley line, or rather a series of trolley lines. The Central Massachusetts Railway Company is the name of a newly incorporated concern, which is to petition for franchises covering forty-four miles of new electric lines in two cities end twelve towns, with Worcester as the central point. Articles of incorporation for the Englewood and Chicago electric street railway have been filed in the office of the Secretary of State. This company proposes to build a railway in any of the streets and alleys within the present and future limits of the city of Chicago where one is desired. The capital stock is $1,000,000. There is a scheme on foot to connect Lewiston, Me., with North Conway by an electric road. The line is to take in, by the way, Minot Corner. Hackett’s Mills, Mechanic’s Falls, Page’s Mills,Welchville, Oxford granite quarry, Oxford, South Paris, Norway, Frost’s Corner, etc. The route will cover twenty-two miles of the best towns in Maine. MULTUM IN PARVO.

The fire is winter’s fruit.—[Arabian. Under water dearth, under snow bread.— [Tuscan. In Idleness there is perpetual despair.— [Carlyle. Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.—[Shakespeare. When we destroy an old prejudice we have need of a new virtue.—[Mme. de Steel. The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless, the last corruption of degenerate man. —[Johnson. A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.—[O. I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.—[LoM Nelson. The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down by adversity, is generally abject and base.— [Epicurus. My precept to all who build is that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.—[Cicero. Nothing lovelier con be found in woman than to study household good, and good works in her husband to promote.—[Milton. An idea, like a ghost, according to the common uotion of ghosts, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itseif.— [Dickens. When worthy men fall out, only one of them may bs faulty at first; but if the strife continues long, both commonly become guilty.—[Fuller. I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children as well os the sins of the father.—[Dickens. - Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope; he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.—[Carlyle. There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.—f Cervantes. The monument of the greatest man should be only a bust and a name. If the name alone should be insufficient to illustrate the bust, let them both perish.—[Landor. There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which can not be described, but is immediately felt, and puts the stranger at his ease.—[Irving. Blaine and Conkiing. [Richard V. Sherman in Utica Herald.] In toe year 1866, when the friends of Mr. Conkiing were urging his claims for United States Senator, the term of Judge Harris then just expiring, I left Washington for Albany, to take an active part in Mr. Conkling’s canvass. As I was leaving the house the day before starting, I met Mr. Blaine, with whom I was always on pleasant terms. He said to me: “You are going to Albany ,to help Mr. Conkling's canvass. I hope he may be successful. He is an able man and much better fitted for the place than the incumbent. It will be an honor to yonr State to elect him. I nave had my tilt with Mr. Conkiing, but it does not lessen my respect for his abilities. In our strife in debate I intended to return the blows he gave me; and that done it was an end of the matteiwith me. I have been always since then ready to shake hands and ignore the pasfc and though Mr. Conkiing has not met me in the same spirit, I wish him well and shall be glad u he shall be elected Senator.” Ambiguous. * (Memphis Commercial.] Blowhard had been running several blocks to keep an engagement with Smith at 3 o’clock sharp. Smith had been waiting for some time and Blowhard, by way of apology, blurted out: f ‘Smith, I’m a liar—if I haven’t—run ten blocks—to keep this appointment.” “Oh, I don’t donbt tost,” replied Smith, reassuringly, but very cooly withal. And Blowhard was quite puzzled.

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which the — , vr Interior Department became known. The first newspaper man to got the news was Mr. Stealey, at toe Courier-Journal. While it was supposed that Mr. Stealey obtained his information from Mr, Carlisle, such was not the case. It happned tots way: Mr. (Stealey war strongly advocauiK Colonel Morris u for the Interior, and he made a trip to New York especially to see Mr.Cleveland in behalf of the former’s appointment. Mr. Cleveland listened attentively to aii Mr. fit aley said in regard to toe good qualities ot Colonel Morrison for a Cabinet position, and, indeed, indorsed his arguments, bat told Mr. Stealey enough to satisfy him that Colonel Morrison was not in it He came back to Washington and told, among others, Mrs. Carlisle, who was also a strong advocate of Morrison, the result of his in ten-lew. Mrs. Caslisle never had a doubt of Morrison going in the Cabinet She could not see now Cleveland could pare by such a splendid man and good oio-liue Democrat So, notwithstanding Mr. Stealer’s story, she was so confident that she bet him a pair of gloves that Morrison would be Secretary of the Interior. The next day Mr. Carlisle went to New York, and the parting words of his wife were: “You tell fife. Cleveland that if I were not sick I would have come with you, just to urge him to put Colonel Morrison in the Cabinet.” Mr. Carlisle delivered her message, and also strongly urged Mr. Cleveland to give him Morrisfin as a yokemate in the Cabinet, but it was not to be so. Mr. Carlisle returned from New York Sunday morning, and on that evening Mr. Stealey cailed to hear toe latest. He found Mr. Carlisle unusually nervous and reticent When Stealey approached Cabinet topics Carlisle tried to change the subject Stealey was persistent, and finally Carlisle said: “Now, Stealey, you know I would tell you anything in reason, bnt you ought not to expect me to divulge confidential matters of this kind which passed between Mr. Cleveland and myself. 1 ’ “Very well, then,” said Stealey, “but you can tell me whether or not Mr. Morrison is going in the Cabinet” “No. he is not,” said Carlisle. Stealey thrust both hands deep down into his pockets, and muttered “It’s a bad break/’ and walked upstairs, where found Mrs. Carlisle, to whom fie said: “Well, the ex-Senator tells me that our friend Morrison is not in it” “Yes,” answered Mrs. Carlisle, “and if it is true, which I don’t believe, it is a shame —a downright shame.” A pause here for about a minute, when Mrs. Carlisle turned round and, facing Mr. Stealey, said: “Mr. Stealey, I want you to tell me who this man Hoke Smith is. anyhow. I never heard of him in my life. This knocked Stealey out but he kept his w..s,and repeated “Hoke Smith?” ‘‘Yes, Hone Smith; this man who is going to get the place wanted for Colonel Morrison.” “Oht” said Stealey. the whole thing flashing through him like a revelation. T ‘Hoke Smith, why, Hoke Smith, certainly. 1 oughtto know Hoke Smith. Of course I ... Hoke Smith is a Georgia lawyer, and editor of the Atlanta Journal.” And this is how the Courier-Journal was the first newspaper in the country to announce that Mr. Hoke Smith, of Georgia, would be in the Cabinet of Mr. Cleveland. THE MCDONALD WILL CASS. As was generally expected, the McDonald will will be broken. There was sufficient direct and circumstantial evidence to warrant a belief that the original will had been gotten away with and a forged one substituted.—[Evansville Tribune (lad.) In the Joseph McDonald will case the jury found for the plantiff—that is, that the will probated ia no will. Anyhow, what is the use of making a will when lawyers like Tilden and MoDonald oan not make one that will stand.—[Washington Democrat. The verdict is a general surprise, and 11lustrates the folly of making a will, .unless it suits the general public. The ease never should have found its way into court The money Involved was not enough to tarnish the good name of the widow of Joseph E. McDonald.—[Lsfayette Times. After ail, however earnestly and conscientiously we may try to conform to ths laws

uuu ., u »,« u , u mr rendering of the verdict by the jury, and by the public, in the McDonald will case may be very briefly and truthfully defined in one brief sentence: Blood is thicker than water.— Lafayette Courier (Rep.) The setting aside of the will of the late Joseph E. McDonald by the jury that tried the case is no surpriae to those who were

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