Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1894 — Page 4

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Ufe which went out on Cal-

vary’s top two thousand years ago should preach the gospel most needed by the iateet born in the family of nations, that j the voice of Him who spoke as “never man spake'’ should, alter this lapse of time, j be the one vital and unchallenged voice that j is sounding in men's ears to-day. Hut so it is. And to what a life it calls us! Absolute sacrifice, deathless love, unremitting •ervice, sublime humility, dauntless courage, perfect consecration to a lofty purpose, a resolute fulfilling of the law of his own being, and a divine forgiveness—these arc tome of the lessons which flew from that cross, before which men all over the world are to-day prostrate. He was indeed One who never turned hts back, but marched

face forward.

Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were wonted, wrong would triumph. Held we tall to risA, are baffled to fight better,

Sleep to wake.

There is something wrong with the man for whom there is no inspiration in such

a life.

frittered away on trees, on the digging of some walks and the paying of salaries of j men for whose services there may be little j or no real need. Let us get something done ! Let the Board of Works take this money | that is set aside for Oariield Park, build a j dam, finish the excavation, turn in the * water and give us a lake in the park.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 23, MM.

GOOD FRIDA Y. hundred and fifty millions of are to-day keeping a fast which ver consecrated by the great tragedy which i* commemorates. Whatever view mtn may take of the nature and character of the mighty victim who thought, and who taught His followers to think, that His death meant the salvation of the world, it is beyond question true that His sacrifice is the turning point in hunru history, and that His life has had a larger, more lasting and mork uplifting influenoe upon mankind than have all the lives which have been lived from that time to this. It is not our purpose to go into any elaborate proof of the value of Christianity, with all that it implies, as a civilizing influence. There arc some things thst may be taken for granted. Bat there is a line of reflection suggested by this Good Friday thought which all men may pursue with profit, and to which a newsuaper may with propriety direct attention. We are all of ws very much occupied with eur own concerns. The self-regard-ing virtues are stronglv developed in Americans. Indeed, there has grown up in this land a gospel which is not only popular, but which has come to be looked upon aa eminently proper. It Is called t»jr various names, but it ia always based upon the »Niory th^t a man’s first duty is to himself. Whether a man gives himself to ths work of making hooks, painting pictures, accumulating wealth, or saving his soul, hs thinks of little hot his owa personal success in the under vking upon which he has enter «d. Now there is no spirit that is more deadly than this, especially in a democracy; it is perhaps our most marked characteristic, and yet it is the one failing in which we as a people can least afford to indulge. The fundamental prineiple upon which a democracy must rest is sacrifice. A democracy ia a commonwealth. We must think of the common weal—of all men’s good. If we make own interests supreme we can not do There must be renunciation—and is the precise word which Matthew Arnold uses to describe wbat he calls the ‘secret of Jesus,’’ It is idle to talk of tree institutions among men who have not this Good Friday thought, tatiou of atlf and consuming ion and lust for place — things are both unchristian and unpatriotic. Sacrifice is the law of life. We must then learn this lesson and heed this law if yre would preserve our liberties. And this supreme sacrifice is the one upon which millions are meditating to-day. We need a large mixture of the “unpraoticality’’ of this ideal Christianity. It is demonstratively true that he who loses his life shall save it And yet wo go on from day to day as though our only care were to keep the breath in bur bodies and clothes upon our backs. Verily the life is more than t and the body than raiment. If the of 1861 had not understood this, the n nation would have perished from the earth. Then there is the thought of service. “I am among you as he that serveth.” And it was His ‘faithfulness to His misthat brought Him to a malefactor’s th. The most august title man can have is the title of servant. It is far nobler to do things for others than it is to have others do things for us. There are signs that we are losing this fine - ideal—and B is wholly Christian—of citizenship. We must be servants, if agnostics will not let us say of God, at of righteousness, of the law and of one A Hfa that is not one of service iter never have been lived. It is our duty, so far aa in us lies, to be the “helpers and friends of mankind." This is democracy. No man baa any business in polities except as he is the self-forgetful servant of the people; ne political party has the slightest right to exist except as it serves the interests of the people—and the people are not simply those who wear good clothei, have fat bank accounts, live in fashionable streets and go to fine churches. There ia no better pattern of obetUeacn than may be found in Him who waa “obedient even to the death of the crew.” Hb had a mission to perform. He performed h. Neman ever Hved who did not have some special work to do. Americans are.fqnd of talking of their mission in the world, and, in truth, it is a noble one, for it ia to show the possibilities of humanity under freedom. They will (nil lamentably unleu they cultivate the stern virtue of obedience. It must be a voluntary tiling—a Willing submission to n selfimposed law. But tile submission must be complete even to the point of self* efface meat- We should stand before the world in this respect aa the model nation. l>o we ao stand? All this means suffertog bat it meant intellectual seriousness, 1 stoess, freedom throogb the ia no other) and salvation. humble

COXEY’S MARCH It begins to look very much as though Mr. Coxey would have to begin his great march to Washington with an extremely ! small “army.” Kocruits are not coming in in overwhelming numbers, and it is said that there are, at present, only twenty men in the Coxey camp. Whether this reluctance to enlist may be taken as a proof of the good sense of the American people, or simply as an indication of their aversion to pedestrian exercise, it would be difficult to say. But we are glad to believe that Coxey has failed to find as many fools as he thought he would. Commander Coxey says that the inarch will begin if nobody falls in behind him but Browne, his poet laureate, who has prepared a number of smashing songs which are to be sung on the road. It is possible that if he really does begin his march he may gather a mob on his way. But even this is not probable. It would be interesting to know how “General” Fry’s Texas forces expect to reach Massillon by Sunday. The railroads will hardly furnish them transportation, except at the customary fare; and they will have to do some pretty tall walking to accomplish their march in two days. The “General” has sent a letter to each member of Congress, in which he warns them that “a living petition of want and misery, one that can not be thrown into the waste basket,” will be presepted to Congress by an army of 400,000 men requesting the passage of “laws for their immediate relief.” This must refer to the Texas division, for the whole army is supposed to number 1,000.000 men. So it may be that Fry is heading an independent movement, and that he and his comrades intend to tackle Congress after Coxey has got through with it. We think it likely that the leaders of this proposed expedition have already got all out of it that they expected to get, and that is notoriety. The name of the man who is fool enough to ask for a law empowering- “the Secretary to issue one i billion of dollars of Government j legal tender money and employ all I the idle citizens on internal improvements, such as irrigation canals to reclaim desert wastes, also to improve harbors and navigable streams,” deserves to go thundering down the ages to the remotest posterity. Such a man is “Gen.” Lewis C. Frj-, of Texas, the author of the immortal words which we have, quoted above.

We hope that the Board of Safety has made no mistake in its new appointments to the police force. There is no denying, however, that its method of procedure raises a slight suspicion of personal or political favoritism. Instead of examining all applicants for positions on the force, or a number taken from the list in the order of their application, each member of the board selected ten names from the list, and these thirty were examined. Twenty of the thirty were Republicans and only ten Democrats, whereas even on this sem.-stoils method, in view of the law requiring an equal division of the police force between the two parties, there should have been as many Democrats examined as Republicans. The board knew how many men it proposed to discharge. But when the discharge of seven Republicans and seven Democrats was made, it had only five available Democratic names be ore it. If the fourteen men discharged were inefficient, as we believe they were, it was right and proper to discharge them. It would have been wrong not to discharge them. But in filling their places, we are sorry the board did not proceed on strictly civil-service methods, and so appoint men that there could be no ground to suspect personal reasons or political pulls. From all that we can hear, two or three, at least, of the new men will bear close watching.

There is one thing funnier than the comments of English newspapers on American affairs, and that is, the London Times having its American correspondent at Philadelphia. That is much as if an American newspaper should have its-English correspondent at Manchester or Glasgow instead of London.

“Sociai. conditions” have nothing to do with the value of trade. It makes no diflerence to you if you want to buy something whether the man who has what you want lives on a higher or lower social plane than you. All you care about is the quality of the article and the price asked. And if yon have something to sell, you do not care what the social condition of the buyer may be. All you care for ia that he pays you your price. If he does that, you make your profit. Men buy things because they want them. They sell things ior profit. The “sociai condition" of the persons from whom they buy, or to whom they sell, has nothing at all to do in afiecting the advantage of the purchase or the profit ot the sale.

The messenger boy must give place to the Senate in the modern joke.

AN A. P. A. OUTGIVING. The supreme president of the American Protective Association, whose name is W. J. II. Trariior, has issued an address to members of tho order based on observations made in a trip to the West He is convinced that the organization is “a mighty force which no power on earth is poteat enough to restrain, although monopol/, the press, a large proportion of the Protestant eierpy—to their shame or ignorance, be it said—corrupt politicians and the priesthood have joined issue to suppress it.” He urges members of the order to attend caucuses and, independently of party, elect only trustworthy members of the order, or equally good and reliable citizens as delegates to conventions. He secs 'in unrestricted immigration a source of financial panics and “the main avenue of priestly supremacy.” He advocates taxation of all property, including “ecclesiastical palaces," and he favors, too, the public inspection of convents. ' * President Traynor says nothing about the “fake” pronouncements, purporting to be written by Homan Catholic authorities, which play so important a part iu the propagation of A. P. A. doctrine, and of which he must have heard iu bis Western tour, if not before. He suggests as a watchword for the order the words of Wendell Phillips, that "the uneducated ballot is the winding sheet of liberty”; but if members are enlisted in the A. P. A. on the strength of fraudulent Homan Catholic literature, and are then instructed to control, where possible, political caucuses, it is not clear that enlightenment and liberty are factors in this movement. Instead of promoting freedom and tranquility, the A. P. A. aud kindred organizations induce a system of espionage mischievous in the extreme, and leading to personal animosity or tending toward serious outbreaks. Societies with real patriotic purposes are alwavs to be encouraged, but the A. P. A., under cover of a plausible statement of lofty aims, is really an appeal to and an encourager of religious prejudice. The leaders in the movement ought to see its capacity for danger and interrupt its progress, or else divert it to worthy uses. As it exists, it is an unhealthy underourrent in the social and political life of many communities. President Traynor complains that the press is against the “mighty force” of his organisation. No wonder. It calls for vigorous denunciation from all libertyloving, fair-mi|ided agents and from all good citizens.

Thk work la Garfield Park has ended after very creditable progress. A good beginning has been made for the lake. Now it Is the duty of the city to take hold and complete the work. The city has money sot aside for the use of Garfield Park. It should use it, and promptly. It has some (8,000 or t",00C for this purpose we believe. It should put all of this if necessary into the lake. It should build a stone dam and finish the excavation. There will then be something done. We shall have in the coming summer a beautiful lake. Another year further improvoments can be undertaken. If this is not done the money is likely to be frittered away ia tree* and walks and custodians’ salaries The point that we ofier for consideration is a business point—the point of concentration upon some one thing until it is completed. Here, as w# have said, is a very good beginning made toward a lake. It woald be foolish to allow this beginning to end fere. end. aa we have said, have money

The Republican* of Iowa are laying plans for permanently restoring the State to their ranks. The Senate fias knocked out prohibition. A tear-old child, run down yesterday by a heavy wagon, is lying at the point of death. At this writing we do not know the details of the accident, and it is possible that tho driver was not at fault. But so many accidents happen iu this town from reckless driving that, iu this connection, it is pertinent to urge a reformation in the speed with which wagons and bicycles are driven in the streets -the latter on the sidewalks also—of Indianapolis. We believe that in things of this kind tho only teaching that is effective is by example. The police owo it to tho protection of life here to arrest drivers and wheelmen who exceed! the lawful speed. The reckless rate at which all vehicles are driven is a survival of our country liie. Our broad and level streets with their scanty traffic have bred here a habit of driving at will. In later years, with the increase of population, the habit still prevails, and vehicles dash out of alley-ways, across sidewalks aud over street crossings at a rate of speed that Is unlawlul and dangerous. The wheelmen, with their all-absorbing ownership, follow suit, and rush up and down the streets and aidewalks in the same manner. There is only one way to reform this dangerous habit, and that is for the police to arrest every driver ot a vehicle and every wheelman who violates the law. . Coxey ought to traval by rail—borne on the shoulders of two men.

It is reported that the farmers along Coxey's line of march have put tbslr bull, dogs on half rations.

We respectfully urge upon the Board of Public Works that it has made a mistake in ordering the cement sidewalks in Illinois street from North street north to be six leet wide. There is hardly room for two couples to pass abreast easily on a six foot sidewalk. This mani.estly will compel too much crowding lor a thoroughlare. On cross streets where the traffic is light six foot sidewalks are ample throughout the whole residence district But on thoroughfares like Illinois, Meridian, Pennsylvania and Delaware streets a six loot sidewalk is too narrow. Let the members of the Board of Public Works take its able clerk and the four of them try to pass in couples on a six foot sidewalk and they will see that they crowd one another very closely. And when it comes to women, still more room is necessary. The sidewalk ought not to be less than seven feet. If the board will make a trial of this matter it will see that we are right.

Prendergast is to be tried as to his sanity. What was the other jury about?

Ox course no one supposes those semarkable “compromises” perpetrated by Assessc Joel Baker will be allowed to stand. The auditor of the county ia expected to proceed in his efibrt to get from the hidden estates, recently exposed, the taxes due to the public treasury. It is not a pleasant thing.' perhaps, to pry into the affairs of a dead man, but a man who cheats the tax-gatherer, and thereby also his fellow tax-payers^ runs the risk of after-death exposure with his eyes open, and there need be no compunotion on the part of the public authorities in making such exposures complete and odious. No one can read Donnelly’s speech delivered at the national silver convention at Des Moines yesterday without thoroughly believing ia a Donnelly cipher.

We note with pleasure that the police will arrest all persons found sweeping dirt and trash into the streets and all drivers of wagons whose wagons leak. We believe that the police will do their duty in this and other things. What is needed now in this connection is an ordinance prohibiting certain kinds of traffic in our principal streets. The slop carts and slaughter carts, the moving vans and scavengers’ wagons, any and all of which may be daily seen in Washington street, should be banished, not only from that street, but from all tho other principal streets, and bo compelled to go their ways by side-streets. ~ Thk "professional" Juror should go. That a man seeks a place on a jury should be sufficient ground for disqualification.

The national silver convention is producing some rather revolutionary speeches, but the fireworks will not really begin until Governor Waite takes hold.

W a commend to all the careful reading of the memorial addressed to the President by the New York Chamber of Commerce, apropos of the Bland seigniorage bill. We have seen no clearer or more forcible presentation of the lacts of the present silver situation. Mr. Hewitt, whose happy characterization of the bill, in his speech before the Southern Society of New York, as a qieasure for coining a vacuum, or, rather, the minus quantity beyond a vacuum, is the author of the manorial. The Chamber af

Commerce Is made up of the men who are leaders In business and professional Ufe of all kinds. All shades of political fhlth are represented in its membership. Its voice is the voice of the conservative financial and business experience of cur commercial metropolis. The curious thing about it Is, that Coxey is reputed to be a bard-headed, successful business man. He is a dealer in grindstones, we believe, and is well-tc-do. Coxey rays that his army may be compelled to pluck ears of corn lor sustenance. It would be a pretty hard thing to do at this time ot year unless he could steal into a farm yard at night and pluck them out ot a

crib.

The Illinois judge, who granted a stay of execution in the Prendergast case, made a mistake it seems to us, and it is the kind of mistake that brings our law continually Into disrepute. On the very edge of the scaffold, it teaches the criminal class that there may be escape, and it Is this lottery element In the execution of the law that Incites the murderously inclined to take chances. Prendergast was fairly tried, and the courts have decided that he was responsible for his act and that he should hang for it. He should hang. It were far better to abolish the law for banging than to have it on the books to be played with in this fashion. After tramping all the way to Washington, Coxey’s arrhy will just be in the mood for demanding the cart-wheel dollar. The silverites find it more and more difficult to keep their feelings within the dictionary in expressing their reprobation of the act of 1873 demonetizing silver. Ignatius Donnelly declared yesterday that it was “demoniac.” “Diabolical,” wo believe, has hitherto been sufficient; but it is clear that to Ignatius “demoniac” 0 is more meaningful. Probably he could express himself much more satisfactorily by recurring to cipher. That would be more satis, actory also to other people. The wave ot weather sweeping over the country is quite Bostcnese. Mr. Coxey intimates that Congress will pass an emergency bill to provide raHroad tickets for the army, so that the valiant soldiers need not walk home. Senator Kyle would be a good man to introduce such a bill. He expects to look out of the window some day and see the Massillon troops coming up the Capitol steps. As Peffer seems inclined to put off on Kyle the onerous duties of chairman of the committee on reception, it might be well ior the sergeant-at-arms ot the Senate to take steps to prevent the Kansas Senator from abandoning his South Dakota brother in the hour of need. The threats of frost from the West, Though hardly as bad as they seem, Will naturally fill with foreboding Lovers of peaches and cream. FOG AND MORTALITY. Tbe London Fogs Are a Great Menace to Health. * [Nineteenth Century.] On nearly all sides there is evidence of a gradually diminishing mortality among the causes of the Loudon death rates, and nothing is more certain than the fitct that this satisfactory state ot things is the direct outcome of the beneficent, practical and expedient health laws by which the public health is controlled, in the midst,however, of the gradual elimination of the causes which tend to destroy life iu London, the fogs remain, constituting always a certain menace, always claiming a high ratio of victims, and always indirectly perpetrating an inconceivable amount of harm. That the death rate for London would show a much better record were fogs to be banished from our midst is indisputable. Let the black pall settle for two or three days ever the metropolitan area, and the following issue of the Registrar General’s returns would emphatically tell the tale of its death-dealing presence. Any scheme, of course, which would be designated to deal with the evil would necessarily be one ot a gigantic nature. But was not the inception of the scheme for the main drainage of London a gigantic one, and, looking at it now, does it not appear to be a monument of engineering skill and a triumph and victory over difficulties which seemed to be almost insurmountable? Let the same enterprise which called into existence the organization of this, perhaps the most indispensable attribute to the maintenance of the health of London, be now turned into the cnrection of solving the problem of the fogs. We have generally been regarded as a practical nation, and a cursory glance at England’s history is all that is reuuisite to display how the praise has been deserved. It behooves us, therefore, for our credit as a nation, to tackle this great problem and deal with it in the manner with which it should be dealt. Truly it can be said that we have led the van of sanitary reform throughout the world, and here is one opportunity for adding further to our laurels in this respect, and of relieving London of an incubns which, apart altogether from anything else, is an obvious disgrace to our clime. But not until the whole subject is taken in hand by the Government of the day is it likely that much progress will be made in respect to the solution of this problem, s - DAILY CITY STATISTICS. Birth Returns. R. and Laura Kennedy, Shelby, boy. C. and Lucy Etter; 211 Orange, boy. D. and Jesse B. Right, 481 Martindale, boy. C. and Bettha Scbowe, 388 Virginia, boy. Henry and Kate Moore, 92 N. New Jersey,

boy.

F. and L. Thompson, 228 W. Chesapeake,

girl.

William and Lida Shipman, 129 Spalding,

girL

Frank L. and Edith H. Taylor, 168 Hoyt,

girl.

John E. and Katie Noonan, 12S Michigan

ave., boy.

Enos D. and Alice P. West, 118 Davidson,

boy.

Willis S. and Eloise Wickard, Ash st., girl. William H. and L. Morris, 461 N. Tennessee,

girl.

Quirin and Barbara Voltz, 387 S. Illinois, boy. Michael and Mary Hock, 90 Bloomington,

boy.

Chas. and L. Boldt, 789 S. East, girL

Death Returns.

Minnie Smith, 21 years, 284 W. St. Clair,

pneumonia.

Ruth Dickey, 9 years, 82 Greer, diphtheria. M. P. Kelly, 68 years, 99 N. New Jersey, dia-

betes.

Iniant Rockafellow, 4 months, 22 Hester, congestion of the brain. Harry T. Turner, l year, 18 Springfield, myelitis. Marriage License*. Albert S. McKibben and Daisy Bell Cham-

bers.

Sutton Barnett and Julia B. Kerr. James Vawter and May Stringer. Chas. E. Gibbs and Albertha M Johnston. John T. Blanch and Maggie Furry. Monroe Blackwell and Lillie M. Stout. Building Permits. Wm. H. Craft, frame house, Park ave., between Eleventh and Clyde, (2,500. Charles Morback, addition, 188 S. Olive, (420. David H. Freeman, addition, 20 Iowa, f&oO. Meal Estate Transfer*. John F. Candell to Joseph Lowder, lots 44 and 46, Morris’s addition to Brightwood ...«...•.................( 300 00 Rollin T. White to John 8. White, lot 45, Downey & Irwin’s subdivision of cart of Brookaide addition 1,600 00 George P. Brown to Ellen E. Graham, part lot 29, Ritter’s addition to Irvington — 1,000 00 Albert J. Kussner to Mary D. Jackson, lot 251, Allen's second north addition 250 00 Wm. Wilgus to Otto Schopc, lot 1, Binkley’s subdivision of part of outlot 124 4,000 00 Raqua Webb to Henry C. Long, lot 10 and part of 17, square 11, Fletcher’s northeast addition 1,200 00 Margaret t>. Gordon to Clayton S. Hildebrand, part of lot f, square 28.. 300 CO Total transfers, 7; consideration 4 8,650 00 Good Reasons. [Texas Siftings.] There are two reasons why some people don’t mind their own business. One is that they haven’t any mind; the other, thattiray harea’t up biriMsa.

Hand In Hand. When spring was young and life was new, Love was onr friend and guide; Sweet were the bowers be led ua through. And sweet our going side bv side. Then summer eame, a golden flood, And still we followed band in hand; Love w as music in our blood. And love the glory of the land. Rich autumn fell, and winter drove The iruity ripeness from the air; But wrapped in warm, so t robes of love. What recked we if the world was bars? So round again we come to spring, Strong ior another year’s emprise; ’be birds are whist to hear us sing, The sun is dazzled by our eyes. For, hand in hand, where’er we go, Earth undenoot and heaven above. Love is the only lile we know, And every breath we breathe is loVe. —[Maurice Thompson in the Independent “He Is Not Dead.” Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleepHe hath awakened from the dream of life. Tis we, who, lest in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife. And in mad trance strike with our spirit's kniie Invulnerable nothings. We decay Like corpses in a charnel; lear and grief Convulse us and consume us day by day. And coid hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny, and bate and paiu. And that unrest which men miscall delight. Can touch him not and torture not again: From the contagion of the world’s slow

THE VACUUM COINAGE BILL.

He is secure, and now can never mourn

a head

vain

A heart grown cold, a head grown gray in

vain;

Nor, when the spirit's self has ceased to

burn,

With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn. —iShelley. “SCRAPS.*’

Tuberoses came from Ceylon to Europe in |630. Trumpet flowers grew wild in all North America. An anti-cigarette league is being formed in New York. Smooth taper fingers are generally in the highest degree artistic. The aggregate copies of American papers issued in 1880 were 2,077,659,675. In the space of one minute the polypus can change its form one hundred times. Drummers are said to spend $175,000,006 in railroad traveling in this country every year. The fitness of things is happily illustrated in the name of Mr. Chinook Whiskers, of Oregon. In Chinese the letter “j” has 145 ways of being pronounced, and each pronunciation has a different meaning. Last year no fewer than 2,378 children were taken up drunk in Liverpool, 113 being under ten years of age. Near New Orleansa woman acted the part of a highwayman and secured $200from two trav< lers at the point of a pistol. T1 j harbor of Rio de Janeiro is one of the nnest on the globe. It has fifty miles of anchorage, sufficient to float the navhs of the rorld. It has been discovered that a fully organized band of counterfeiters have been operating in the jail at Atlanta, Ga., for some time past. In Robeson county. North Carolina, Ira H. Lee set lire to a pine tree on his farm. He was working under it when the top burned off and fell, killing him instantly. Hunker—1 asked old Mr. Munn if I might pay my addresses to his daughter. Spratts —Whatdid he say? Hunker—He suggested that I should pay my debts first—[London Tit-Bits. The new Vanderbilt houses are expressly fortified against anarchists. Hot water and rifles are provided in convenient places, ready for a garrison of servants to keep a mob at bay. James Bragg, of Hawkinsville. Ga., trained his dog to drive a horse. While Bragg was absent from his team the other day the dog drove it home and the owner had to walk five miles. A big bouquet of Australian cut flowers, which had been frozen, waa recently sent to Queen Victoria by Lady Duff After the ice had been thawed the blossoms are said to have presented as fresh an appearance as though just gathered. The convicts at £an Quentin, Cal., are to take up the study of theosophy. At least, permission has been granted to the theosophists of San Francisco to win converts to the faith and instil theosophical doctrines in the minds of those who might become susceptible to theosophical teachings. Geologists find that -the Juniata river (Pennsylvania) by reason of its course and fall, affords a wonderfully comprehensive view of the geologieal formations through which it flows. To follow its course with the hammer is to obtain geological samples to be obtained so easily afield in no other way. A family out in Oregon has a peculiar religious belief all to itself. Its members work for six years and rest throughout the seventh year. No outsider is allowed to enter their dwelling. According to the neighbors, the members take a bath three times ever>day and three times each night, or six baths every twenty-four hours. Farmers in Talbot county, Maryland, discouraged at the meagre returns from last year’s peach crops have since destroyed half their peach trees, and many an early spring hearth-fire will he maintained on the wood of the old orchards. Few young peach trees were set out last year, nnd the planting this year will be still smaller. Cardinal Gibbons \sill be the recipient, on March 25, of a jewel box made from wood that formed part of the roots of the old mulberry tree at,St. Mary’s, under which the first mass in Maryland is said to have been celebrated, on March 25. 1634. The tree was between three and four hundred years old when it blew down, some years ago.—[New York Post. “Papa,” said the Fiji Island maiden, ns she laid down her paper, “I have just read that ball-room dresses are daily becoming more and more decollete. What does that mean?” “It means, my child,” replied her grizzled warrior father, as a flush of pride struggled with the Pacific tan on his brow, “it means that, uncivilized as they call us, we are not beyond establishing a precedent." -[Life. To engrave or write on colored eggs is a very simple trick. A pen or pointed piece of steel or iron and any kind of thin varnish that will dry quickly are the only articles required. When the tracing on the egg is finished let the varnish become dry. Then place the egg so treated in a dish containing vinegar. A ten minutes' bath is about all that is necessary to bring out the writing. A chef says: “There is a secret about the preparation of a salad which is not patented, aud which a good many of our members have taken home for the edification of the rulers m their kitchens. It is simply that a salad can not be made until the various ingredients have been allowed to ary after the washing process. When this is not attended to the flavor is lost aud the requisite crispness is also lacking. It is possible to fix np an apology for a salad in a few minutes, but a good one can never be prepared in less than ten, and fifteen minutes is better.” Long Branch has been a summer resort for 116 years. A Philadelphian in 1778 engaged summer boarding for himself and family at the Colonel White house, Lhng Branch, upon condition that he provide his own bedding. He provided not only bedding but meat as well, because the landlady could furnish only fish and vegetables. The property in question, including 106 acres, was sold in 1790 for $700. and $2,000 having been spent in improvements, a regular summer resort was opened. Two years later the visitors at the place saw the battle between the English frigate Boston and the French frigate Ambuscade. A discovery of great scientific interest has been made in excavations being carried on in the district of Tuxiaco, Slate of Oaxaca. Mexico. A number of small images, formed of metal, were uncovered by a workman in one of the oldest ruins the other day. The images represent people of Oriental appearance and dress, os well ns priests in their robes of sacrifice. They bear hieroglyphics of unknown characters, and are elaborately wrought, with fine art lines shown in every corve. The images found thus far are of gold, either wholly or in part, and coated with some unknown enamel, which has preserved them from all harm in the many years they have been buried in the soil. They will probably be shipped to the National Mussum in ths City of Mexico,

New York Chamber of Commerce Urcea a Veto.

V,, equal value must necessarily be lowered to the silver standard. One such loan has already been made, and others must follow-, unless, in accordance with the precedence of your official record, rewarded by the well-earned confidence of your fellow-citizens, you interpose the stern rebuke of the Executive veto upon this deliberate effort to inflate the currency, reversing the established policy of the Government since the resumption of specie payment in 1879, needlessly imperiling the public credit, threatening further disaster to the suffering business of the country, and indefinitely postponing the return of confidence, without which it is in vain to expect the restoration of general prosperity. A Practical Hnggestlon. [Texas sifting*.; Robbie—Mamma, doesn’t it make your hands warm when you spank me? Mamma—Why, yes, Robbie, it does. Robbie—Wouldn’t it do just as well, then, mamma, tor you to go and hold them over the kitchen range? To Make Him Think of Them. ,'Truth.] I wonder if I have got everything in this trunk. The only way to tell is for me to lock it aud strap it first.

AMUSEMENTS.

grand-special Farewell tour before Koing to Europe for m season, of MODJESKA Supported by OTIS SKINNER and a superb company of players. THUB5 ^aT n Mil ip OjfLY Aiii.lIiluljLj FRIDAY NIGHT and If i HE i SATURDAY AFTERNOON, 1 I H \ First time here. 1!I rt 1/ IJrl SATURDAY NIGHTMerchant ol Venice

PRICES—All lower floor. SLSO; first two rows ■ cony. $1: balance balcony, 7fic; gallsry. 25c. Admission—lower floor, $1: babony. 60c‘

THE NEW YORK STORE

Established iSjj..

The memorial addressed to the President by the New York (.’hamber of Commerce in favor of a veto of the Bland “seigniorage” bill was prepared by ex-Mayor and ex-Congressman Abram 8. Hewitt It states the facts of the situation with -clearness and cogency. The text follows: To the President: Sii^-The Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York ha* uniformly, during the whole period ot iu existence, been the firm and consistent advocate of honest money and of a currency convertible into the standard of value created by the laws of the United States, the .gold dollar containing 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. Tho chamber has therefore found itself at all times in full sympathy with your official utterances and executive action iu regard to legislation affecting the finances of the country. The chamber rests in calm confidence that this hill will not receive your signature, because on its face it misrepresents the actual tacts in regard to the silver now in the Treasury purchased under the act of July 14, I860. * 1. There ii no “seigniorage” in the Treasury upon the silver bullion thus purchased. The term seigniorage means the charge mac ” against the owners of bullion voluntarily inging the same to the prints to be coined. Coder existing law. all silver in the Treasury has been purchased by the Government, nnd none ot it has, therefore, been subject to any charge of seigniorage. 2. Neither has there been any “gain” upon the amount of silver purchased under the said act, but, on the contrary, there has been a very heavy loss. The bullion purchased under the act of 1890 has cost the Government an average of 92.44 cents per ounce, and Treasury notes are now outstanding to the amount of $152,923,280, representing all the bullion now in the Treasury and purchased at that rate. The present market value of silver in this city is 59J4 cents per ounce, showing a loss on every ounce so purchased, and for which the obligations ot the Government are now outstanding, of 32.94 ceuts per ounce. In. stead, therefore, of there being a gain of *55.156,681, there is an actual loss of $46,846,500. Upon this loss the hill proposes to authorize an issue of further silvereertificates to the extent of $55,156,681; in other words, the actual loss would thus be capitalized by an additional issue of obligations, the flflect of which will be to diminish the security, already inadequate for the rdemption of the Treasury notes now outstanding. In comparison with this operation the issue of fiat money becomes respectable, because that at least rests upon the faith of the Nation. The proposed new issue is fruseri Upon the violation of the faith of the Nation, in so far as it dilutes the security which was pledged under the act of 1890 for the redemption of the Treasury notes issued thereunder. ' If a national bank should thus by false entries attempt to convert its losses into assets aud issue, obligations thereon, its officers would be guilty of a crime, ami tinder the law wouli^ be liable to fine and imprisonment. If a private firm were thus to falsify its books, its members would commit a fraud, and in case of bankruptcy would sutler the penalties prescribed by law for the punishment of fraudulent debtors. The chamber respectfully submits that, while an act of Congress might grant immunity, no legislation could possibly change the moral aspect of such transactions. Moreover, under the act which repealed the purchasing clause of the act of July 14, 1890, the faith of the Government was practically pledged to the maintenance upon the gold standard of nil existing Treasury notes, certificates and currency issued in accordance with the law. The silver coin and bullion now in the Treasury represented either by silver certificates or by Treasury notes, amounts to $492,196,937, in addition to silver dollars in circulation, amounting to $53,993,513, upon which there has been a depreciation in market value of $193,200,000. The chamber respectfully represents that this deficiency, which is now practically guaranteed by law to be made good in gold, creats an embarrassment to the public finances of great difficulty, involving the gravest possible danger. The part of statesmanship would seem to bv to take every possible step toward the increase of tbe resources and of the reserves necessary to preserve the plighted faith of the Government in reference to the redemption of its obligations in gold. The bill now pending before you weakens the security under the control of the Treasury Department, and is calculated to destroy confidence in the ability of the Government to maintain the currency upon a gold basis. The lack of confidence which was produced by the prospects of continued purchases of silver under the Sherman act, brought ou a monetary crisis of such severity as to spread general dismay throughout the country, to greatly curtail the operations of business, and to compel even the strongest banks to resort to temporary expedients not eontemplated by law, in order that their customers might not be .utterly ruined. Recovery from such a condition is necessarily slow. Reviving confidence should be encouraged and not arrested by tbe action of the Government. If the bill pending before you should become a law, the return of stable conditions will be greatly impeded, and in the interval of doubt and despondency, all classes in tfie community will continue to suffer the distress of the existing depression. The chamber refrains from commenting upon the ambiguous language of the bill as to the amount of the Treasury certificates which may be issued under its provisions, because it is fully aware that these provisions will receive the earelul scrutiny to which measures of such vast importance are entitled at your hands, but the chamber can not close its communication without calling your attention to the fact that the approval of this bill will necessarily lead to further issues of bonds, in order to maintain in the Treasury a reserve of gold sufficient to comply with the obligations of the Government to keep all the money of the people on a level of equal value, because un-

Easter Attractions Offerings Acceptable to Your Liking

MEN’S WEAR.

Of course you’ll buy a new tie for Easter and you’ll take great pleasure in mak-

MILLINERY—Second floor. Easter Millinery reception.

Each day adds to the interest. A vast stock in perlect taste.

Prices that are right from jing a selection from these,

your point of view. What more can Bonnet buyers ask? Are you your own milliner? The materials all await you —bright, beautiful and cheap.

RIBBONS—Center aisle.

New shades in the latest make-ups lor 25c each. Tecks at*l Pour-in-Hands

at 50c each.

Men’s white laundered

Shirts, all new goods, usu-

Fancv Ribbons all silk Sold at e * ch ’ 0nl >' . . ’ ’ 3 -j49c while these last; all sizes

thing for Hat Trimmings. R.*- i*™ ’ 4 t0 ^

BOOKS,

A big range of Easter

Cards at special prices.

ular 50 and 75c, for 19c. DRESS GOODS—West.

45-inch all-wool French Serges, JEWELRY'—Center Aisle,

all good colors, at 49c, worth 75c. Imported illuminated Granite Cloths, choice shadings, at $1. 30-inch all-wool Challies at 49c in a hundred different de-

signs,

30-inch imported French Challie at 59c; finest goods made. WEST BARGAIN TABLE. All-wool Illuminated mixtures, lull 50Inch wide. You would think them good value for 75c. They are only 59c. 40-inch all-wool colored Henriettas 39c. CENTER BARGAIN TABLE.

Silvered .Hair Ornament, with rubber

prongs, 15c.

Shirt Studs, aoc a aat.

Baby Button Sets, with chain, 35c. Solid leather Cabin Bag. leather Uued. nickel trimmings, 14-Inch, *4; 16-iacb 13-Inch Moon nirrors, ou metal stand,

$•.35.

TOILET.

White Castile Soap two bars for gc. Buttermilk 5oap 4c or 45c a dozen.

Rowland's K&yldor 75c. Rowland’s Macassar OH foe. EASTER GLOVES.

Double painstaking in selecting the Gloves for Easter; all the very latest

Yard-wideChambray.lostrlpesjshades and in aU the fading

styles.

A full line of Biarritz Gloves, in all colors, at $i a pair; these are the genuine

goods

Easter tints such as pearls, pinks, white, etc.,

$1.50 a pair.

Dame Fortune smiled on us when we captured this lot of Suede and dressed Kid Gloves, $1.35, $1.50 and $1.75 qualities, yours at 79c a pair;

and figures, at 10c; usual price

18c.

Superfine satin Cachmine.dark grounds, India silk designs, at

10c; worth 15c.

EAST BARGAIN TABLE.

There will be a special clearance sale of all the EASTER NOVELTIES, Ducks,Chicks, Rabbits, Eggs, etc. Some made of sugar, some of papier mache; all

go at half price or less. LACES—Center Aisle.

Just received from our Paris U JE > *i house, the latest novelties in j . ^ 11 , r *

Bruges Point,Venetian Point, Lisle Point, in all widths, insertions to match. They come in ecru, cream and white. Black Laces are in great demand. We have the new, open Black Bourdon at 39c,

50c, 69c, 75c.

UMBRELLAS—West Aisle. Grand opening display of Easter Parasols in lace-trimmed white silk .and ruffled surah. AH

the latest novelties.

Coaching Parasols in white

Ladles' cloth top Button Shoea la.ag,

would b« good value for Sa.$o.

Ladles' Kid Button and Lace Shoes, with patent leather tips and trimmings, vary neat, for $3.90, worth at least $4.50, aa

others sell.

Ladles’ fine Kid Oxfords, opera and square

toes, new style, $3.

Ladles' best Kid Oxford, hand-tnrned, wrinkled vamp, patent leather Up and trimmings, plccadilly and square toe,

only $3.50.

Misses’ Kid Shoes, lace and button, patent tips, spring heel, 98c, former pa ice fi.ag Misses’ Kui button Shoes, patent leather tip, square toes, fl.29, marked

down from fl.60.

Children’s Kid Button Shoes, patent tip*

79c, marked from fl.

EASTER FLOWER SALE. On the main floor you will

and the new Changeable Silk, find a magnificent collection with natural wood and Dresden i° f c™...™

Tulips. There will also be a most complete range in the variety oi Out Flowers. Everything that the best florists keep will be there, and not at florlats’ prices, but at one-third to one-half loot

than that.

Fresh Chocolate

ball handles. SPECIAL SHOWING EASTER CAPES AND JACKETS. 100 Stylish Capes go on sale at $4 and $5. All new shades, handsomely trimmed in lace and inserting. New Capes in black just arrived for Easter, $10 to $25

each.

Another supply of nobby j Sunday, too, and rig them Reelers, 5 to 12 years. out in a nice spring suit. HOSIERY—East Aisle. S Boys’ Combination Suits, Ladles’black Cotton two-thread Hose, full > coat, tWO pair of pantS and regular made, double heel and toe, for a U woo j and tQ

Creams

19c.

Easter Novelties at half

r, r i ce .

BOYS’ CLOTHINC—ad Floor. Let the boys come out of their winter shells on Easter

19c a pair. \ C ^P»

Ladies' black Cotton Hose. Hermsdorf dye, } match, for 52.98.

white feet, for 35c a pair.

Ladies’ black Hose, with fancy colored

tops, for i3%c a pair.

Children'* black Cbtton Hose 5c a pair. Boys’ black Bicycle Hose, heavy rlbb, extra strong, lor 35c a pair. Children's Un and black fine ribbed Cotton Hose, 35c and 35c a pair; all sizes.

A better quality, same combination, for 53.75. Splendid

assortment.

New Caps from 50c up. PETTIS DRY GOODS CO.

amusements.

GRAND— T °- Ni g ht and to-morrow afternoon and evening, WM. H. CRANE And his original company i Brother John )THE g ENA T0R

AdmlMHon—Lower floor, $1: balcony. oOc. Matl-

No advance In prices. A f fernoons, 10c, 20c. Evenings, 10c,

PARK|to-day

I bOe, SOc.

Annual engagement of tbs favorite German dla

lect comedian. BAKU*

In hit new edition ot THK EMIGRANT With original comedy business, now songs and a score of noveltiea.

EMPIRE

MATINEE at X

thkatkr corner Wabash and Delaware street*. TO-NIGHT at 8.

in bale

Maiina« same as night.

March 20.

on saio Monday.

Florence A. Miller’© Big Burlesque andVaudevilleCo Ream may be secured by telephone 1708. Next Week-Lester 4k WUUauoa In Mo and Jack.

Unhurt —anything q that Pearline w'shes or cleans. You can do harm enough without it; with it, you can do nothing but good. You can wash clothes easily, without the scouring and Rub, Rub, Rubbing that wears them out House-cleaning is done quickly ; all cleaning is done thoroughly. Use Pearline, and you won’t have hard work; you will have to work hard, if you won’t use Pearling. „ J Peddler* and aon « unscrupulous pro oCnG cen will tell you "this is as goad as* , — . or “ the same «s PnarUne.” IT’S It Park FALSE—Pf» |Lae is never peA

somethu