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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1894

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f their followers capture the city.” These | smi uho was the blatherskite; on the “bosses'* are interested iu nothing but tbe j other occasion of public display showing,

distribution of “spoils.’* They plat upon the partisan bins of men who are too bliud to tee that their votes are being diverted from the work to which they directed them, in the interest of rascals

whom they despise.

From a realisation of the utter inadequacy of a national platform to cover | local issues proeectls, Mr. Welsh points ! out, tbe need of a municipal party. At j Philadelphia there is such an organisation ! of independent* who, when not strong j enough to nominate their own candidates, j throw their weight with the best | candidates of either of the great ] parties. Such voters must be content to gain strength and influence slowly, and if they act wisely and consistently they are likely to gain in a community accueptauce for their ideas. Mr. Welsh | speaks cordially of the contributions by ! women to the discussions of the conference. “Women are needed,” he says, “and if their efforts are guided wisely they may become invaluable aids in the work.” Mr. Weli:b, whose home is Philadelphia, is the chairman of a committee appointed by the conference to form a national league for good city government. lie has long been warmly interested in securing protection for the Indians, and he practices what he preaches iu advocating a beginning of all civic reforms in the cities.

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BLAXD'S pluck. Mb. Bland gave notice yesterday that he would, on Tuesday next, move to pass the vacuum hill over the President’s veto. It ia not at all li*ely that he will succeed. The free coinage men are beaten, and the sooner they realize the fact the better it will be for them and for the Country. Mr.'Bland, however, can hardly be blamed fot wishing to fight the fight to a finish, lie is one of the few men in e&ther Mouse of Congress who ire earnestly and honestly devoted to any policy or principle. And it is to the untiring efforts of this one man, more than to anything else, that the silver question owes the prominence it has attained. He has, it is true, had. persistent allies in the Senate, notably Mr. Stewart, but Mr. Bland has been tbe motive power behind

the movement.

If ths tariff reformers wor; one-half as mneh in earnest as the silver men are, the Wilson bill would have been a law long ago. When Congress met last De•ember tie tariff’ question had the right-of-way. The new tariff was reported to tbe Honae of Representatives with reasonable promptness, and on the 1st day of February the Wilson bill was passed, sent to the Senate, and referred to the finance eommittea. Then the vacuum bill was taken up, and after some difficulty in obtaining a quorum, the bill went through the House. When it got . to the Senate, the Wilson bill was still in committee. There was a short debate, and the firet thing tbe country knew, Mr. Bland's vioious measure was in the hands of the President The tariff bill, on the other hand, on which work was really begun last Oetober, has been in the Senate for two solid months, and no man can guest when, if ever, it will become a law. The contrast between the fate of these iwo measures is interesting and instructive. It is not • Mr. Bland's fault that be won a victory; in reality, he did win a vtotory, and that in the face of preaidential hostility, ft will be the fault of tariff reformers if. with the President on their side, they do not pass their bill and pass it speedily. Even the best of them may well learn a lesson from the silver leader. Mr. Bland believes in his cause, which i* vastly more than ean be said for many of the supposed tariff reformers.

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PROGRESS IN MUNICIPAL EEThere has been no more important or Significant convention held in recent years than the Confereeco for Good City Government held at iTiUadclphia a few montna ago. Mr, Schurz's address at that meeting, to which we referred at the time, was a clear and vigorous statement of present evtiS in American cities, with suggestions for their correction. Mr. Herbert Welsh contributes to the April Forum interesting comment on the conference. He makes (he point that all reform work should begin in the cities, and this has been accepted more and more of late by all Who have been connected with the various energies directed to ballot reform, the promotion Of law and order, and other civio movements. Thousands of men have been engaged more or less actively in fighting political rascality of varying degrees, but their strength was never massed. Finally, says Mr. Welsh, the questton arose, Can not tenfold the present result be reached if all or most of the scattered groitps—ballot-reform associations, Indianrighta associations, municipal committees of one hundred, law and order leagues, women’s health • protective associations, were joined together at some strategic point whore they might successfully meet (he enemy? A few men aud fellowworkers in the good cause from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago and other cities reached the conclusion that the American city was the reform Thermopylie. It tras hoped that a conference might lead to a national league among the cities and result eventually in the adoption of the eimpiest and best methods for obtaining municipal reform. Mr. Hchun argued at the conference that the foundation for ail good city government was laid in tha unhesitating adoption of the merit system. While it might seem that this was a little farfetched, it remains true that other plans of work proposed, and to which lesa attention was paid at the time, really depend on the elimination of the spoila element. The great need is to exclude

political questions from local The “boose#” depend on the sepagood men into rival partissn although there it no logical reason hey should not be united ia a body, fighting ia a common cause, its it aptly when be aaye that oaiahing Ant by so flimsy an

expedient the engineers of the machine should he able to keep good citizens—and herwjse sensible seeu—perpetually qaar* ii«g ameac tkemaalvaa. while «»■— and

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A LEAF FROM CURRENT HISTORY. Look thou character.—tPolonius. There have been some curious revelations of character iu this community in recent months, which, like all such revelations, “ore profitable for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,” because it is character that we all seek if we have moral health. Where there are other and more worldly ideals substituted the end is revolution or decay. The poet puts it (and whenever God has a truth to tell to mankind He tells it through the mouth of the poet): HI fares the land to hastening ilia a prej-, Where Wealth accumulates and men decay. How much we have gone astray in our ideals might well make great searchings of heart among us. But, indeed, it behooves us at all times to seek the right ideal, for when pressure comes it will not be well with us if we have not stored up sufficient health for the soul on which character may feed to stand iu the right way against the pressure, as years of temperate living store -the body with strength against a time of fearful assault by disease. Pressure or opportunity, the one a compelling force, the other a seduction, has each its dangers, aud each has been revealed by example among us. We learn by death that one man, who, to all outward seeming, cared nothing for the pomps and vanities of the world, who lived secluded and as if poor, had nearly a hundred thousand dollars in gold stored away. Wc have another case of the head of one of our great moneyed institutions, a man for years prolessing to live by the merits and intrcies of Christ, who betrayed his trust and plundered his friends, not once, but again and again, not in desperation or upon impulse, but systematically, apparently, defying the fact that fir^ burns, that the serpent stings, that the day of reckoning always comes. Then we had at the head of another of our moneyed institutions a man unpretentious in all of his ways; living a life whose fair and honorable methods were so colored by kindness as to give him unusual reputation; a man who paid the “tithe of mint and anise and cummin,” as his tax returns show in the minutin' of their specifications. A-nd yet, now that he has gone the way of all men, it is learned that, while he reported faithfully to the taxgatherer the little things, he was taking osth to the rorrectness of returns from which tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of property wi s omitted, thus cheating the public treasury of part of its due and adding so much to the burden of his friends and neighbors. Then there was the ease of a great public enterprise, at the liead of which were two honored citizens. These men were trusted absolutely, and yet when all was over it was discovered that one of these men bad retained some ^12,000 of money, raised by subscription for a definite purpose, for the benefit of the club of which he was president. The other man, who received a large salary that he might be able to devote his whole time to the club's work, which work is doing publicspirited things, was found to be the recipient at the hands of the other of $3,000 from the same fund for his share in the patriotic work, which "allowance” ho concealed in bis official report under an “etc," the while he accepted without blushing n vote of thanks from his colleagues for his “disinterested zeal.” Of the money for this enterprise tens of thousands of dollars was raised by public taxes, and this diversion of subscribed money was made after solemn promises by these two men that not one cent of the public money should be touched nntil the private money was

exhausted.

We turn to a more cheering exhibition. In these months there lias been distress in the land, and here at home thousands of people hare been dependent upon pubilo charity for bread. They were represented by tiundreds of bread-winners whose hands found nothing to do. Work now for this gift was the word, that a man’s self-respect should be preserved and fair play hare its way. And then there came another revelation of character. Hundreds of these men did york, work the most cheerless of all work —work for bread, not for a pittance in money where individuality may assert itself and each man may have his own to dispose of in his own prudential way, but simply for bread. Yek hundreds of these men did the work manfully, and it waa apparent that very many of them were unaccustomed to the rough labor that was set for them to do. Their hands were tender; their backs were weak. Tbe sum total of the efficiency was far below the average of unskilled laborers. But tbe sum total of willingness was never greater. It was a vindication of uprightness aud wholesomeness in character. It came like a season of refreshing after the examples offered by the “comfortable citizens with two costs and everything handsome about them.” And this assertion of wholesome character contrasted itself on the other side with men who had clamored loudest for help, but who, with this opportunity to preserve manhood by earning the aid they cried for, were sifted, were shown to be of tho kind who harangued at night in a threatening manner and warmed them selves by day in the public corridors. * Thus pressure and opportunity, working together, separated the sheep from the goata, showing on tiua occasion of wideso read distress who wm the brave man

in un u supposed t«M>e above such weakness, the biuutncsi of ths moral sense in iiandlinu subscription imihcy aud money raised by taxation, and the Cowardice or bravado of the moral nature which has reltucd to right a wrong; iu private life showini; the temptations of the affections to be superior to the inviolability of trust and the dictates of honor, and the secret love of wealth to be strong enough to constrain honored men to make false statements iu order to escape bearing their

fair share of the public burden.

THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS

AND PAVEMENTS.

The Board of Public Works has sole authority in determining the kind of pavement to he laid in any street. The law Joes not contemplate that the board shall merely register the preference or whim of the majority of the abutting propertyholders, but that it shall itself determine the question. The theory is that the board will take a comprehensive view of tbe paving question; that it will work on some definite plan as to what is best for the city as a whole. The pavement of no street, however insignificant, is a purely local question. Other people than those who live or own property in a street are interested in the character of the impro v ‘tnent ordered. The more important a street is, the greater the interest of citizens generally in its improvement, and the less weight comparatively should be attached to the local preferences. In tbe principal business streets, used constantly by all classes and conditions of people, from all parts of the city, and most seen and frequented by strangers,4the board should have no hesitancy iu promptly deciding to order that kind of pavement which the dominant sentiment of the city at large considers the best and most

appropriate.

In the case of the South Meridian-street pavement the board, in deciding for brick, appears simply to have adopted the preference of the local majority. If the members of the board have informed themselves, os we presume they have, in regard to paving, they know that brick is not the best material for paving a business street. They ought to net on their superior knowledge and so save the prop-erty-holders from themselves. They know, too, that the best opinion of the city prefers asphalt to brick in principal streets. And they know that a brick pavement in South Meridian street will place that thoroughfare, now the principal wholesale street, in unpleasant contrast with all the parallel streets of the business quarter. So, even if they had reached the conclusion that brick is superior to asphalt, and we have hud no intimation to that effect, it seems to us that in the interest of uniformity asphalt should have been chosen for South Meri-

dinu street.

The conviction is deepening that the members of the Board of Public Works, all of whom are estimable gentlemen, do not measure up to the importance of their function. They should regard every piece of improvenfcnt not as a separate work, but as a part ot a general plan. They are not in office to find out what kind of pavement a majority of the prop-erty-holders in a street prefer, and to decide on that, but to decide in each case what material best accords with the character of the street, and best harmonizes with the general scheme of improvement. Brick ia proper in its place and so is gravel. But tty hoard should save the city from several kinds of pavement in the same street It should take the broad view. It should have convictions—and right convictions—and should act on these with decision. Brick in South Meridian street is riianifcstly a blunder and one which can hardly fall to bring discredit on the board and humiliation on the city.

In the Denver imbroglio it begins to appear that there are more fools than the Governor taking part. The New York Tribune tells of a new kind of pavement, made in Bavaria, which is said to combine all the excellencies of asphalt and granite, being~«s elastic as the one and as hard as the other. The Tribune thinks that, if the claims for it be true, it would be a gcod thing for New York, but adds what would be the use of bavin? it there, since it would be torn up three or lour times a year to let pipes bo put down. We commend this to our Board of Public Works. They are permitting the same sort of thing in Indianapolis. It is a thing that ought to be stopped. Before a pavement is put down in a street, ail pipe connections of water, gas and sewerage should be made, and no tearing up Of the pavement should be allowed. Several Republican editors throughout the country are on fte alert to become the "original” McKinley man when the time is ripe. Professor Garner says that monkeys make laws and discuss public measures. Alter abiding with such intelligence for so long Professor Garner will receive a severe shock when he visits tho United States Senate. ' The Springfield Republican has just cele" brated its fiftieth birthday by the purchase of a new press and tbs issue of an historical edition. The Republican, founded by Samuel Bowles, has enjoyed a long and honorable career. It is a credit to Springfield and to Massachusetts. It is, indeed, one of the best American newspapers. In politics its independence continues to give authority to its opinions. Now that it has turned its half century tbe Republican should modernize itself to the extent, at least, of patting date-lines on its dlscatches. The old system of incidentally giving local habitation to events is misleading. But this is the Republican's business. Ws wish .continued prosperity and succesa to oar Springfield contemporary.

Russkll Saoe ia called upon to pay f25,000 for using his clerk ss a shield against a bomb. Tbe verdict will affect Mr. Sage more seriously than did the explosion.

It requires strong faith in tbe essential soundness of ths American character and American institutions, not to despair of the republic when one contemplates the present Senate. Corbett’s measurements, according to the Bertlllon system, have boon taken at Cincinnati and filed away. He did not like this, as the register is of tbe measurements of criminals. The Cincinnati police department doss well to adopt the Bertillon system. It Is tbs only system by which a man may be identified beyond doubt. Not a great while ago The Nkws printed a complete description, with illustrations, of this system and urged oar own police department to | adopt it. We shall come to tt some day. j But we ought to head the procession instead

of tail it.

Spkakkr Crisp declined tbe Senatorship. He has no personal interests of a business nature to represent. The Now York Evening Post scores Governor Flower (hr his refusal to ess the delegation of ilttw# of Tray, »ha aallad an

him the other day to urge him to give them satisfactory legal aid in investigating the political murder on the occasion ot the recent municipal election. It says: Governor Flower’s refusal to give them the legal aid they ask tor must, there ore, tie taken to settle the lonR-staitding problem whether he is Hill’s roan or Murphy's roan. We have never hannened to hear ol any one bold enough to consider him his own man. The Troy rascality and crime are believed by reputable citizens to be directly traceable to Senator Murphy. Senator Hill is ready in the wings waiting for the curtain to go up on the tariff scene. In Pike county, this State, an unusual legal question has risen. For robbing his wife of $300, a man has been sentenced to six years in the penitentiary. He had deserted her after securing the money. The Supreme Court will be asked to decide whether a husband can steal from his wife or a wi;e from her husband.

We trust every one understands that the remarks made by the deputy prosecutor and the judge of tho Criminal Court which we reproduced yesterday were not made while the court was actually sitting. However lacking in dignity the conduct of business in the Criminal Court maybe, such a conversation as we reported, we are satisfied, could not take place in open court. The conversation occurred just after ‘the court had adjourned and in the judge’s private room. Of course a fine sense of propriety, a proper conception of the duty of their respective offices, would have saved prosecutor and judge from such a display of ill-temper. Outbursts*of impotent profanity are not calculated to win the confidence of the public in men’s protestations of their devotion to the public service. The deputy prosecutor and the judge ought to remember that if criticism of their manner of doing business is unjust it can only hurt the critic. Decent citizens see no more reason for laxity in enforcing the liquor laws than in enforcing those against steal.ng. They are unable to understand why it is so dreadfully difficult to convict men o.‘ violating the liquor laws, and why when they are convicted they are treated to such gentle fines. We do not profess to be able to say just wtiere tho responsibility lies. All we say is that some way the strong probability is that a man accused of violating the liquor laws, who appeals to the Criminal Court from tho judgment of the Police Court, will be acquitted or get off with an insignificant fine. Of all the cases which have been appealed in the last iew months only one man. we believe, has been convicted, aud he was let off' with a tine ot $10. There was not sufficient evidence, or the clock was fast, in the other cases. There is more than one dangerous precedent being established by the Prendergast fiasco. Washington HesiNg, the new Chicago postmaster, has the right idea of the public business. In a speech to his subordinates the other day he talked in this sensible way: I desire that you look upon it as you would the service of some large business house, aud to recollect that politics cut no figure whatever in this office. I don’t care what a man’s creed, color, or race mav be. These are all one to me providing that the employe does his duty. If any one o: you falls in dcing your duty, prompt retribution will follow. No influence, no delegation, no political ’’pull” will save you. On the other hand, it you do your duty and terve the Government faithfully and honestly, you will be retained iu office and no power on earth can remove you.

The Board of Monument Commissioners should make no exceptions in punishing people who disfigure the monument. If the board does not take a firm stand in the beginning there will be an intolerable condition of things. If Mayor Denny wants to give Indianapolis an administration which it will hold in grateful remembrance he will besides putting a spine in the Board of Public Works, have the telephone aud telegraph wires put under ground. It may bo impossible to stiffen tho Board of Public Works, but it is not impossible to have the electric wires put under ground. Other cities have done it. All that is nece: anry is an ordinance ordering it to be don' in a reasonable time, and then backbone on the part of the executive department in carrying out the law.

The supplies that people offer to Coxey’s army on the way are not given so much through sympathy for the scheme as from a desire to give the army strength to move on.

A stranger following the course of events among us of late might conclude that tbe chief end of interests in this State and city was to dodge taxes. For years we have been running behind even in. current expenses. Finally, we pluck up resolution sufficient to adopt a tax system that will pay expenses and begin to extinguish our debt. Moreover, we adopt a better tax system, one that more equably adjusts the rate. Then begins resistance. The railway companies are even now fighting in the Supreme Court of the United States to keep from bearing their just share of the public burden. And it is a cold day indeed that news of some attempt of this kind in some shape by some interest does not come. The last to join the procession is the express companies. We complain of an income tax because it is inquisitorial. But is it not a fact that every tax is objectionable, and that there is a chronic disposition to evade every kind of taxation? Is it not a fact that we have not the courage to look taxation directly in the face and that we know we have not; that we admit that certain sums must be raised by taxation and that we say we must raise them indirectly, must raise them by duties on this, that and another thing so that we shall pay the taxes concealed in the price of something instead of paying simply the price of tbe thing we buy and then paying the taxes for themselves? As taxation is wholly a creation of civilization, has it not the defects of its qualities, aud is not the disposition to dodge taxation also a disease of civilization?

Progress is reported in the city’a two suits, the one to preserve the Delaware atreet sidewalk from encroachment, the other against the Commercial Club. We hope it is the kind of progress that progresses. With a railroad corporation taking the people’s street on the one hand, and eminent citizens diverting public money to private uses on the other, it is high time for the court to act -if the court is the people’s agent for the protection ot property, tbe preservation of rights, and the administration ot justice.

Senator Peffer is growing conservative, as evidenced by hia repudiation of Coxey. Tbe next thing the country may hear ia that Senator Peffer has clipped a yard from his whiskers.

A Question. [New York World.) If Princess Maud marries Rosebery, will she become a home ruler?

Montana’s State Flower. The blossom of the prickly pear has been adopted as the State flower of Montana. (Written for The Indianapolis News.] Sonnet To a Sleeping Child. The baby’s head drops gently bn my breast; The fringed curtains hide her deep blue eyes; Her little lips are parted, whence arise Sweet breaths like incense in a Church of Rest. Ono dimpled hand upon my own is pressed; The other softly on her forehead lies. Where ono stray curl about her finger tries To form a pretty little golden nest. O lovely sleeping child eo full of grace! As to and fro I rock and watch o'er thee, A silent prayer to the dear Christ I pray, Who took tbe little ones in His embrace. And blessed them, saying “Let them come to Me,

What Then?

Whatt’en? And then a

And then a thusty /Cage And then a brooklet wh

Why then another pilgrim sonj hath of rest divinely granted, nrstv stage ah me. so Tong) t

en it most is wanted.

What then? The pitohingof the evening Gat. And then, nerchance, a pillow rough and thorny, And then some sweet and tender message sent To cheer the faint one for to-morrow’s journey.

THE BEAM A.

fhe wailing of the midnight

heart oppressed and

What then?

wind,

A feverish sleep,

aching;

And then a little water-cruse to find Close to my pillow, ready lor my waking. What then? I am not carelUl to inquire. 1 know there will be tears and fears and sor-

And then a loving Ha And saying. “I will

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Savior drawing nigbe

ving Higher, for to-morro*

was were

What then? f or all my sins His pardoning For afl my wants and woes His loving kind-

ness;

For darkest shade, the shining of God’s face. And Christ’s own hand to lead me in my

blindness.

What then? A shadowy valley, lone and dim, And then a deep and darkly rolling river; And then a —~ -' K ’“

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“SCUAPh.” An international postage stamp is talked

of.

Switzerland has $(>5,000,000 invested in Alpine hotels. It is proposed to utilize the telephone for steering vessels in fogs. The ladies of the Astor family possess jewels to the value of $3,000,000. A feature of a New Zealand concert was a comic Irish song sung by a Maori native. Ehrht tons of cheap periodicals are sent out from Manchester, England, every week. The first factory for the manufacture of white glass for bouses was established in 1330. About one hundred deaths occur every year in London from window-cleaning accidents. The average duration of life in India is twenty-four years. In England it is fortyfour years. Worsted stuffs were first made at the village of Worsted, in Norfolk, England, about 1313. Pious Russians do not eat pigeons because of the sanctity conferred on doves in the Scriptures. 1 An engine constructed entirely of papier mache has been added to the Berlin fire department. She—George, I hear burglars! He— Well, keep quiet; they won’t steal you. —[Exchange. A cucumber eighteen inches long and two and a half inches in circumference was grown by a Lakelrna (Fla.) farmer. A mixture of tungsten with steel is known to give to the latter so great a degree of hardness that it readily scratches glass and quartz. Many sheep and cattle in Australia have died from extreme cold. One station lost lt>,000. Many hundreds are lying dead along the roads. “Doan so’shate wif er small-nntured mnn. HeTl not only keep f’um helpin’ yer to succeed in life, but he’ll hate yer ef yoh does.” —[Washington Star. If two men who are mortal enemies meet in society, they ignore each other; if two female enemies meet, they kiss each other. —[Fliegende Blatter. Yellow rubbers, to be worn over russet shoes, are the latest fad in footwear. The fashion was originated in Chicago and has made its way to New York. Eiaborate statistics prepared in England’ show that of all European nations the British laborer spends more for food and gets better qualify for his money than the worker elsewhere. A Missouri judge sentenced two men to prison, one being illiterate till he learned to read, and the oiLer until he taught the uneducated offender. There imprisonment lasted three weeks. The Wild Man Borneo—How is it the two-headed girl seems to get along without any trouble? Bearded Lady—Well, she doesn’t mix with other freaks much. She prefers to associate with herself.—[Puck. The Birmingham (Ala.) Colonization Company has five hundred negroes booked for deportation to Africa. The company estimates that the deportation of tne whole race from this country would cost $225,000,*

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Mrs. William Todd Helmut!), who has been’elected president of Sorosis, had to be kissed by ail the members, and when it was oversiie is said to have remarked in a sly tone: “Well, men have some advantages over us yet.” Wing—There seems to be more disposition to enforce the excise laws. King—Yes. In my neighborhood last Sunday the side doors were so carefully watched that the saloonkeepers had to admit customers by the front door.—[Puck. Father—“Now, Jimmie, I’m going to give you a hard thrashin.’ D’ye wanter know what for?” Son—"Nossir, I don’t, cos if you tells me what fur then I’m goin’ to say I hain’t done it, en you’ll lick me twicet as hard fur lyin’ about it.”—[Life. Police Magistrate—This ain’t the furst tonne you’ve been arristed fur bein’ droonk. Prisoner—It’s injoostioe yez do me, y’r anner.” Magistrate —Moind phwat ye say! Oi’ve seen your face scores av toiraea; an' lately, too. Prisoner—PJaze, y’r anner, Oi’mjbe new bartinder at Mickey Doolau’s. —[Puck. The Southern otter is still hunted in Florida for the sake of his fur, although it is inferior in quality to that of the sea otter of Oregon and Alaska. So persistent has been the pursuit of the sea otter iu the far Northwest that, the animal has become extremely scarce. The common otter of the South is an expert fisherman and he is found only near watercourses or lakes. It is the East Indian otter that has been taught to drive fish into nets as an aid to human fishermen. It is b.-liered that there is a great field for the exportation of our agricultural implements—the cheapest and most effective in the world—to the Spanish-American countries. The maohete, which is only a great knife, serves instead of ax aud spade in many of those countries. The United States Consul-General for Ecuador believes that if clever agents were sent down to show the people how to use better implements a trade could be created at once. Dressmakers affirm this spring that there is dire need in New York of an association for ameliorating the condition of the rich. Families that have usually ordered garments at this season by the thousand dollars’ worth now confine their orders to hundreds, and persons who have been accustomed to include a vast array of outing clothes in such orders now omit these, and explain that they expect Jo pass the whole summer in town. It is possible for even fashionable folks to live at moderate expense in town, when their friends and ac* quaiutauces are elsewhere.—[New York

Sun.

England had more sunshine during four months of last summer than in any like period for ten years. The returns gathered from all the observation point* throughout the islands for last summer show an average for the whole kingdom of 60 per cent, of the possible 100. Complete sunshine records only reach back to 1881, and during that

MODJE6KA AND “MAGDA.” “Heimath” is tbe title of Budermann'a play which Modjoska presents as "Mafda.” The German word "Heimath,” not practicable tor English usage in this connection, means home, bnt it means more than home. It means the spirit, the life, the ethical sense of the word home rather than its objective or material sense. It G at once apparent bow exquisitely fitted the name is to this play, for "Magoa” is an exposition of this inner and spiritual atmosphere of home; depicts the way in which it acU upon the lives of the home circle; how it brings to the bar wrong-doing; sentences and punishes it as well in a relormatory as in a retributive way. There is an Iron-willed, tyrannical lather, an innocent, capricious, and also ironwilled girl, and uie inevitable clash of these two spirits in the home. The girl flies. In the great world she (alls morally, rises artlsticAs a great singer, with society at her feet, she consents to come home, and the play passes in this home atmosphere, in which her tempted, tried and worldbroadened spirit meets again ‘the provincialism of village life and encounters the elements of her childhood’s early scenes. No one comprehends her except the village curate, who once was her lover, but even his comprehension is narrow for his Uie is narrow, his virtues those of the untempted. Her lather, narrow-minded, tyrannical and selfwilled as ever, learning ot his daughter’s early fall seeks to kill the man who has sinned with her (where a woman has sinned a man sins

too).

This man seeing himself in dai ger of his life proposes for Magda's hand. To Magd father this is repai ation, and the curate, w his idea of the verity of things, has also advised this consummation. Magda, who has given up her great world for her home, is willing to give up much to lurther this purpose. But when she learns that the marriage with this man. whom naturally shelothes, means to give up their child this and hers), the woman in her revolts, and with sweeping scorn she clear* herself ot his presence. But ibis is further humiliation to the father, and he dies of it, refusing her his blessing. Thus dees “Heimath,” the spirit of this home, adjudge this transgression. None ol them can rise to the nobility ol Magda’s spirit. None of them can deal with her mult either with the breadth Of real justice or the depth of mercy that it ought to be dealt v ith. The curtain :alls as she falls prone at the :eet of her dead father. Manifestly there is here a clean, high, stern and realistic exposition of hunmn nature. But it is an exposition better fitted for the closet than thj.- stage, for, until the last act, the play is story-telling instead of acting. It passes in one room of the home to which Magna has returned, and with no dramatic situations worthy the name, consists of the recital of Magda’s U e and the effects of this life on others, nntil the last act when, with the revelation of the privy councillor as the father ot Magda’s child, the action comes upon the scene, as it were, and there is the real movement of the play. So, as a whole, “Magda” is an inert mass vivified by Uie electric spirit with which Modjeska shows forth the one real active agency. If “the play is the thing” "Magda” can hardly be called a stage success. But if a sermon is the thing, ora moral lesson, then “Magda” justifies its place be.ore the

footlights.

The play lacked little or nothing at the hand of Madame Modjeska’s company. Miss Keith as the maid was the pertection of a maid. Miss Durbin as the home-keeping, pure and simple-minded sister, wrought the character as daintily and precisely as fine needlework. Barring a slight air of priggishness, which made him a little tiresome, Mr. Kyle as the rector was impressive. Miss Anna Proctor as the Major’s second wi e was little more than a lay figure, but she did all that was to be done. Mrs. Sargeant as the sister to Mrs. Schubert,an eccentric character, excellent. Her make-up, her manner flawless. Mr. Lindsley as the young soldier and the lover of the home-keepmg sister Marie hit the character exactly, givingit throughout with the right spirit of emphasis and modesty. Mr. Harris’s General, which is so brief a part, was excellently done. His appearance and his sonorous voice made a portraiture with a !evv sharp strokes that was instinct with life. The Professor ot Mr. McGee and the two Countesses by Miss Keith and Miss James were little more than appari-

tions.

Mr. Skinner’s Major Schubert displayed a great mastery ot the mechanism of acting and a mannerism that is theatric, not dramatic. It might be suggested also as to this play that where Francisca von Wendel tells him of her first seeing Magda at tbe boll she has to make the recital with her back turned to tbe audience land all the exprescion of her very expressive face thus losti because Mr. Skinner sits atthetable so far up the stage. II he would come front at this point the effect of this episode which is the first introduetjon of Magda into the play would be enhanced. It might also be said that when Mr. Skinner tries his hand at holding the dueling pistol he should not stand full front while he extends the pistol but as duelists stand, sideways, so as to present tbe narrowest possible front to the adversary. Mr. Skinner is an actor of such unquestioned intelligence, is so manii'estly a master ol all of the mechanism and technique of his art, that an affectionate solicitude may pardon the mention of his shortcomings, fbr there is so much promise in him ot the highest attainment and this at a time when high attainment was never more needed on the American stage. He has force, and not iorce only, but power; there is an amplitude in all he does—he never tails of a climax. He has finish—control of the subtle expressions. He has true dramatic instinct, and above all he has a lovely spirit that refines whatever it informs-a rare equipment for the true and the beautiful in art. In this great presentation there remains the work of Mr. Carter as.the Privy Councillor and of Madame Modjeska as Magda. So different as these characters are in their outline and development, the potency of the same art, the information of the same right feeling, the precision of the same clear seeing in color, of the same true hearing in tone wore mani'est in both. Mr. it.-'- ‘s Privy Councillor in appearance is a tall, lank, red-bearded man, with a long nose and a harsh voice, overdressed, with a raw attention to details. His cool, semi-languid mannqr, his quickwittedness, hi* selfishness, his cowardice and his force wrought stroke after stroke, like the finest painting, with every detail faithful to the ideal. He rises from the normal calm of his manner to a storm of rage or to a loud assertion of dignity with all the fidelity of exact drawing. His attitudes, his gestures, the play of his fingers, the hitch of bis neck, the inclination of his head, the modulation and measurement of his strides, all are the art that conceals art and presents the true end of acting, which is to hold the mirror up to nature. His work ts eminently worthy a place beside Mme. Modjeska’s

Magda.

Of this new presentation by this great artist all might be said in the sentence that it is perfection from first to last. Her costumes swim in the eye like a sea ot color, her manner imprints itself upon the emotions now with the lugitive touch of an apparition, and now with the steady glow of a flood of light At her first appearance there flashes from her face those fleeting looks, “gone ere one can say it lightens,” so characteristic o.’ Modjeska, as it were glimpses of the erratic and elfish spirit of her genius. Through all the earlier scenes in which she is "cabined, cribbed confined” in tho close atmosphere of this home, she displays the petulance, the tolerance, the half-rebelliuus forbearance that so exactly suits the spirit of this Magda in its highest ideal. Throughout the early scenes with the curate she portrays in a lovely spirit her soul’s nobility in conquering itself, tying itself down to the little measure which these

It is a great

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movement of • finger cal) Into use, filled in at every point this portraiture, and so perfectly that no joint nor transition It vGibGs all is revealed as a living whole, breathing the spirit of H e with which the infueee it. The andtence which filled every part of the bouse was a most brilliant one, a greatly ap- ; precintive and entlia'ilaetic one. Modjeeka’e engagement close* to-night with the presenU- ! tion of “The Merchant of Venioe.” A HlniT Ideal. [Go*hen New*.] The Indianapolis News ask* for a high ideal, something of the spirit that prompted the fathers of our Government, when it say*: j “No man has any business in politics ex* i ccpt as he is the self-forgetful servant of the people; no political party has theslighte*t right to exist except as it serves the interest of the people.” All of which is

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[Frankfort Crescent.] The independent Indianapolis New* | has much advice to oiler “Our Senators” j and to DmooraU generally. If “OurSena- ! tor*” should undertake to please the erratic and iridescent News, they would displease the entire Democratic party of the SGte, whose ideas of legislation and publie policy they are the public servanG to carry out. ! The independence of THE News is a sham, I fraud and cheat It support* Grift reform with a flourish of trumpeU between elec- ; tions, but when election day comes its ; influence goes to the other fode. Advice | from such a source ought to no weight Kossuth Lying 1# Stiite. Bcda Pksth, March 31,—The body of ; Kossuth’s daughter was reburied to-day j after simple but*impres*ive service*, in the i presence of the relatives and deputations, j Many wreaths of flowers were laid upon the coffin. A continuous stream of people is passing to and from the National Museum to-day, where the body of Kossuth is lying in sGte.

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