Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1878 — Page 4

iHE 1XDIAXA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MOHNTXCf MARCH 27, 1878.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27.

Tun fool Shylock organs, of which the Chicago Times occupies an. advanced position, are still banging away at. the silver dollar and quoting John Sherman's nonsense. J. Madivon Wells demands that Anderson, the convicted felon, shall be made collector of the port of "ew Orleans and it is believed that Hayes will be compelled to grant the request. The Emperor William was ..eighty-one years old on Friday. He is extraordinarily hale and strong, and attends an entertainment every night and attends to business during the entire day. MmcEPK?, the young queen cf Spain loves .the English language and studies Lorgfellow's poems with great perseverance. She will do much to increase her husband's popularity at home and abroad. . Hayes and his wife will spend a portion of the summer season on the White mountains. We do not want him to fall "over a precipice end. break his neck, for in that case AVbeelcr, another fraud, would become president. ' Tin: Empress Eugenie courts retirement and afiVcts the style of Queen Victoria as to her chess. She owns Camden house, Chiselhurst, and has $250,000 a year. She is proud of her son, and believes he will retrieve the fortunes of the familv. U.n account of the delicacy of touch and sight required in weighing the pieces of silver for each new dollar, women perform all that work at the Philadelphia mint The' sixty-fourth part of a grain is noted by the scales which they use. ' The dog tax in Louisville is nearly as valuable to the city treasury as the bell punch. Daring the year 1877 $7,100 was collected as dog tax. This year, if the law is rigidly enforced, this amount will be doubled. C'l.vci.NXATi has between four and five thou sand places where spirituous and malt j ...... ., ... .. J liquors are retailed, ana me proposition now is to levy a tax of one cent per drink, which, it is asserted, will produce a revenue of $35,oOo per week, or $1.7H),000 a year. If Cincinnati succeeds in thi3 it is believed she I will be able to complete her great southern j railroad. ' j The Brooklyn board of education have re i solved to ab3l:sh the academic classes of Ihe public school?. There have baca thirty six -of thes-e classes and they have been kept up j at a cost of 70 a year for each pupil, or $32,- ; 4 for teacher's salaries alone. The first j grammar schools are to receiv? more money i and attention, and a more thorough tuition j in the studies now pursued in them will j hereafter be given. j A Kificviorn example of seeds sent out by ! the agricultural department at Washington I was recently brought to light by sonie far- j mers. A sack of a new variety of wheat was i forwarded to a certain district, but it seemed ; such motley stuff that the fanners picked' out the ingredients, mustard, wild buck- f wheat, rye, black oats, white oats, pigeon ?rrass, barley, cockle, wild peas and Indian j wheat, and the farmers are ready to indorse j such seed as indeed a new variety of wheat. ! TiK hills of Vermont are now covered with the trailing arbutus, which ia all bloom now. Pushing aside the dead leaves, the "pretty pink blossoms cover the earth, where the trailing vine like a thread winds about. Many a Vermont boy and girl growing old in the west remembar the zest of the search for the first blossoms of the arbutus, the harHinger of spring, on the preen hills of their native state. It is found in great profusion thi3 season, owing to the mild winter just jMissed. Parisians are like children for desiring now toys. A picture card containing a puzzle wiil amuse them for hours, and reap for the inventor a plentiful harvest of money. Tlii latest Irilie of this kind is a picture on thin paper, with four Lead3 engraved on it, those of ueen Yictori.and the emperor of ' Austria being on top, and those of the czar j and sultan below. By folding the picture 1 four timea the united heads form a good i picture of Bismarck. . lx the Frus.-ian province of Nassau some i interesting and valuable experiments have been made with the common nettle (Urtica dioica.) So satisfactory were the results that a large area has been planted with nettles and considerable money has been expended in perfecting the machinery to be used in the manufacture of it. The Eeed is to be worked in the same mvnner as hemp, the fiber be I as line as silk, and as regards durability yields nothing to the hemp. Sitting Bi ll has formed a confederation of Sioux a:i i lilackfeet, and is trying to win the Crees. A camp of 700 lodge3 of Sioux is already established near Sandy Hills, and this is being rapidly enlarged as banJa of hostile Indians arrive. It is reported that the Xez. Terces, the Blackfect, Little Blanket and Little Log are moving on by forced marches to join in Sitting Bull's attack on the forts. Big Bear, a Cree chief, says it is useless for the government to try to govern the Indians so long as they put thera in jail for killing buffalo. Thk yellow fever has assumed the magnitude of an epidemic at Rio Janiero, the ddily report of deaths running up as high as twenty-five and thirty. The past month has been one of excessive beat and drought, and, though a few cases of fever were reported bef--. jre. low growing fearfully nuliseases, especially fevers,, oake the-death list fifty 'e are despondent and ic sentiment baa driven o take active measures " -.itlzens. Strict orders s of foreign ships in heat of the day is ts are kept clean.' heat, and "aid in f Fay-

master Francis T. Gillctt, of the U. S. N., is said to have occurred from imprudence. He ate an iced salad, and then took a long walk through the streets of Rio Janiero in the burning heat. The yellow fever soon attacked him, and his death was not long delayed.

Tut report of the South Carolina legislature, J cist published, presents facts and fig-. ure3 that prove their carpet-ha senator, Patterson, to have been a plunderer of gigantic greed and a thief of immense voxueity. The Journal has held him up as a pattern to young men of political ambition, and. "the prosecution of him by South Carolinians arose froti his devotion to republican principles." "Addition, division, and silence' prevailed a3 long as the republican ascendency i was maintained by the aid of bayonets. Now that the right has prevailed and wrong- has been dethroned, siace honesty add intelii geace have been exalted, and corruption and ignorance have been banished, facts are beipg publishe'd to the world proving "secret 'wrongs can never prosper where there is a sunny right." LANDS AND LAM) OWNERS. The vast quantities of 'lands given awayf and in many instances worse than thrown away, by the national and state governments I to railroad and other corporations, is at last ! attracting attention, and it is gratifying to note that steps are being taken by congress to recover some of these lands when the purpose of the grant has "not been realized. The credit of bringing forward this measure is due to the Hon. John R, Eden, of Illinois. The bill introduced by Mr. Eden sets forth "that in many instances where such grants 'have been made the states and corporations 'have failed in whole or in part to perform 'the conditions of their respective grants, and 'have failed in whole or in part to earn said 'lands, many of which have been withdrawn 'and withheld from settlement for more 'than twenty years, and which lands should 'be restored to the public domain, and open'ed to settlement as other public lands." With regard to the sum total of land grants made by the government to different states and to railroads, the following figures were embodied in a memorial to the house committee on railroads: Certified acres. 0H,iNO 2,V(j,l:iS l,7tW,)S 1,072,105 l,7Mtf7 115.4; 2,779.702 2.71M13 1,379,515 1,644,602 Illinois Acres. V,U!,2i0 Mississippi Alabama...... Florida.-., ... 2.HW),H4 1,578,7'JO 41,271 ......... 3,740,100 ... 6,751 ,277 5,327,! 5,:f7!,."tiU . 7.7K1.403 Ijulsiana..... Arkansas... Missouri , Inwa Michigan......... Wisconsin..... Miunesota , Kansas.. California 7,7.!,U00 't,720,UUO Pacific railroads 121,100,000 tYagon road In Wiscon- ' slu, Michigan and Oregou 3,225,113 It is stated that the government owns now but a limited number of acres of desirable lands, and that every consideration of prudence demands that this thing of giving away the public domain shall cease, and that i all the lands forfeited by a non-compliance with the contract by corporations shall be restored to the government, and bo placed in the market for entry and cultivation. Rut our purpose at this writing is not so much to introduce arguments showing the propriety of Mr. E Jen's bill, as to call attention to the remarks of the Chicago Times upon the subject of the future influence of land owners upon the de3tiny of the country. It says: Land here will n it has in the elder civlllzatious of the world gradually flip from the handsof the many intotlie hands of the few. And laud owners, landlords, so-called, will, at last .here, as in the governments of tue olu world control and rule, make and execute the laws. The time is not distant wbi'U tat-imyers Instead of tax eaters will direct tlie affair of municipalities, counties, states mid the rcpnblie. Landless men will leheld to have no luori rixht to vote for officers who are to ba paid out of taxes raised from hinds than 8tiM-Isles men are now held to have to vote for directors in railroads or banks wherein they have not a penny Invested. Just lis owners alone vote in private -coriwratlons so owners alone will, sooner or later, in ail good govern menu wlUcb are mere public corporations for the protection of llle. ilbTty and property be permitted to exercise the right of franchise. Land ownership Is an essential element of good citizenship. And now, after the era of suvlnm banks which hive burst, of railway IkhmIs which have collans-d, of life Insunime j frauds and myriads of other business fallacies which were spawned of inflation and an lrre- ; deemahle circulating medium, it is a sensible and Kxinful thinz for American citizen to uuy I and till good lands. Three generations hence I and the transfers of Improved lands will be as 1 rare as honest eonuressmeii are to-day. Ileal estate, mil estate will at least i found to be I In the United Mates, as it U in Great Britain, j the most satisfactory, safe and government i controlling tiling which a citizen may possess. I It should be understood that the Chicago Times is a Shylock oran, and has no sympathy at all with citizens who do not own money or real estate, und that it predicts in due time mechanics, artisans and l "borers in America will De reduced by land ! owners to the condition of serfs; have no voice in the affairs of state; that they 'rill be deprived of the ballot, and in all regards occupy a mud sill level more odious than that to which the negroes were snbjected before their enfranchisement. It ia such wild utterances as the Times indulges, more than anything else, that is alarming the labor element of America. It is tos political thtwphwliM, this wild ranting in favor of capital, this continuous effort to degrade labor and exalt money capital, that is now banding workingaien together to guard their rights. It is not possible that all men shsll.be land owners. It is the climax of nonsense to prate about the neces sity that everybody become farmers. There ! will be a diversity cf employments in America, ana tne time is remote when a landed aristocracy or any other aristocracy will deprive laboring men o the ballot in this country.' The right to vote like the right to breathe will be defended by Americans, and when an effort is made to reduce American freemen to the condition of serfs, as suggested by the Times, scenes will transpire in America compared with which the French revolution will be regarded, as child's play. It is altogether too early to suggest the degradation of the working I men of America. It so happens that they 1. . 1 - J J 11 ... mi )'.y iue:r uguis auu uare maintain tueiu. They have intelligence and power. They have the ballot and know how to use it They have liberty and will not surrender it now nor hereafter without such a struggle as will make such men as the Chicag) Times represents prefer hell to the ordeal through which they will be compelled to pass. The democratic party is a party of the people ;this government is a government of the people, rich and poor, black and white. Every day educates them to a higher appreciation of their privileges, and though every acre of

land from the Atlantic to- the Pacific shall fall into the hands of rich men there will be forever a power In the country more potent than any that land titles can confer; a mind power and a physical power that will assert the rights of the people. Such Shylock organs

f as the Times may well afford to be guarded in their insane utterances favoring the degradation of men who do not own land. There Is a mind power in America which does not yield to Shylocks. There are men who are as important to the state as any others, who do not propose to till the soil; and woe betide the men who in their insane desire for universal dominion propose to rob them' of their birthrights. One thing is certain, such men will be compelled to operate outside of the democratic party the party that has placed the ballot in the hands of free men, whether born to poverty or riches; and when they are deprived of their inalienable rights the republic will pass away. The Sentinel takes no stock in such Shylock ravings. RIVERS AND RAILROADS. The navigable rivers of the country arc just now attracting attention. The railroad mania has about spent its force. The states from east to west, from north to south, are bound together with iron ties, strong as books of steel, and other lines will yet be Constructed. For years past railroad building has absorbed the attention of municipal, state and national legislatures. Taxes have been levied, bonds issued, and subsidies granted. As a result a net work of railroads covers the land. ' The past two decades of years have constituted a period of surprising national development Forests have been penetrated, mineral districts reached, and the most fertile portions of the vast country brought within easy distance to the great marts of trade. Commencing with 1830, when there were but twenty-three miles of railroad in operation, the building has gone, rapidly forward until 1S74, when there were completed 72,623 miles, involving a total capital account of $1,221,703,5!) 4. Such advancnient in a single enterprise has no' parallel in the history of any country. As we' have remarked building railroads for a time obscured the importance of river transportation. Rat the laws of nature are once more beginning to assert their supremacy, and the mighty rivers of the continent are demanding recognition. The highways of commerce hewed out by omnipotence can not be ignored. They were created for a higher purpose than that of simply flowing in silent grandeur to the sea. They are the arteries of trade and commerce, forever inviting men to place the heaviest burdens upon their bosoms, that the products of 'forest, field and farm-may have a cheap transit to the markets of the world. In future the railroads will be in a large degree tributary to the rivers, bringing the heavy products of the interior to their shores to be floated to the seaboard at lower rates than the railroads can afford. It should j be remembered that the great rivers of the j west are national highways of trade, and as such have admitted claims upon the national treasury. Hitherto appropriations have 4 been grudgingly made, but in the near future the indications are thatwestern river improvements are to occupy a prominent position in national legislation. The brilliant success of Captain Eadsin deepening the channel at the mouth of the Mississippi has created a new era in the commerce of the west It has been shown that from September 1 to March 1 of the current commercial year New Orleans exported 3,402,000 bushels of grain against U79.0OO bushels for a corresponding period of the previous year, and it is stated that these facta are attracting much attention in commercial circles, and it is predicted that grain will be carried from St.. Louis to New Or- ! leans at three cents per bushel. River improvements are now demanded, and the public mind is rapidly ' unifying upon the subject. The Mississippi, from its mouth to St. Paul, the Missouri, from the Mississippi to the Yellowstone, the Ohio, from Tittsburg to Cairo, are to receive attention. Nor is this all. Every . important tributary of these great water highways will in due time be cleared of obstructions and have their channels deepened. The trade t between the United States, Mexico, Central and South America, so far as the west is concerned, will eventually be via the Mississippi river and regular lines of steamboats from New Orleans, and no railroad system, no matter how perfect or extended, can overcome the natural laws which regulate this trade. The only difticulties now in the way are uncertain channels in the rivers and a lack of money in New Orleans. But the channels of the rivers will in due time be deepened, and this done, capital will be supplied at New Orleans to transact all the business that offers. The producers of the west are to be Indefinitely benefited by these contemplated changes, lor with cheap transportation there will be something left for them in the way of profits upon investments and labor. it i:p or the baxkbi'pt law. Just now there ii a very general demand for the repeal of the bankrupt law, passed in 1867. Since the year 1S00 three bankrupt laws have been enacted by congress. The first was passed April 4,1800, limited to five years,, but was repealed December 1V, 1S03. The law was unpopular, but it remained on the statute books long enough to afford general relief to those who were laboring under business embarrassments. The next bankrupt law was placed on the statute books in the year is 41, and wai repealed March S, 1843, having been in operation but about eighteen months. A great many availed themselves of it3 provisions, wiped out old scores, and starred afresh in business. The country was left from March 3, 1843, to March 2, 1807, when the law now in force was passed. Various reasons are urged why the law should be repealed. It has Been held, notwithstanding the federal constitution declares that "congress shall 'have power to establish uniform laws on 'the subjct of lankruptcies throughout the United States, and that the power fciven to 'congress was only Incident to the power to 'regulate commerce, and that 'bankruptcy' 'In the constitution, must be held to bear its

'limited and technical sense, as determined i 'by English law." There seems however to be no well foundI ed doubt in the minds of constitutional law

yers with yegard to the constitutional right to pass abankruptlaw. The objections chiefly urged are, that there is'too much waste and expense attending the proceedings in bankruptcy, with the growing belief, "grounded 'upon all experience, that a bankrupt law is 'a mere sponge to wips off indebtedness." To object to a bankrupt law because it "wipes out indebtedness" is to object to a law because! it accomplishes the very pur-, pose for which it was enacted- Such objections would wipe out all effluent laws, and leave only those Uon the statute books that are virtually void from the fact that they do not accomplish the purpose their makers had In view. We are not disposed to assert that the bankrupt law as it stands is perfect; on the contrary, we are inclined to the opinion that it is far from perfection. It is purely a radical statute, and was doubtless so fashioned as to afford wide margins for stealing and general corruption. It should also be remembered that from the date of the passage of the law down to the present day tne forces set in operation by the radical party have been driving men by thousands and tens of thousands into bankruDtcy and rum. For the six past years nearly 50,000 citizens have failed. Doubtless in this vast army of ruined men, some have been dishonest, and the law was so framed as to give that class an easy egress from their liabilities, with something left with which to resume business; but a vast majority of the bankrupts, it is safe to assume, were hones? men; men who battled sgainst the curses of radical legislation a long as they could, and went down only when they could struggle no longer against adverse winds and tides. Those who clamor for the repeal of the bankrupt law assume that the necessity for its continuaace has passed away. The facts do not warrant such a conclusion. There were 8,872 failures in the United States during the year 1S77, showing liabilities of $l!0.G;r,930; of these, Indiana's share was 352, showing liabilities of $5,740,554. Authentic advices are to the effect that failures are now more frequent in Indiana than at any previous period, averaging in the Indianapolis office alone about eight each week, or 410 for the year, against 352 failures for 1877. With these facts staring congress in the face, it can not be said that the "necessity for a bankrupt law no longer exists, if at any period in the history ofc. business such law was demanded. What is now wanted is the repeal of the resumption law, for it involves the absolute payment of national banknotes in coin or that they be retired. The coin can not be had; hence contraction, a still greater shrinkage in values, and more bankruptcy. To continue on the statute laws that tend directly to business failures, and thus deny the unfortunates the privi lege of coming into court and surrendering everything, that he may try again to rebuild bis fortunes, is not the part .of justice .or wisdom. We are of the opinion that the bankrupt law can be improved, and this ought to be done, but its absolute repeal, while other laws are in force making it a necessity, ought not to meet with general favor. When the legislation that has filled the land with business wrecks and business gloom is wiped out, the repeal of the bankrupt law will be in order. Till then give the unfortunate a show for their lives. B ward Taylor says that while minister to Germany he will employ his leisure moments in writing his biography of Gothe, a work he has long contemplated. In his speech before the Gethe club, of New York, be said: "The question has been asked, is a minister to a foreign court to bo appointed 'to that he can pursue such work? 1 answer 'emphatically, no. The minister's duty to 'his government and to his fellow citizens is 'always paramount. I shall go to Berlin with 'the full understanding of the character of 'the services I am expected to render, and 'the honest determination to fulfill them to 'the best of my ability applause; but as 'my friends know, I have the power and the 'habit of doing a great deal of work, and I 'think no one will complain if, instead of 'the recreation which others allow theniselves. I should find my own recreation in j -another form of labor. 1 1 ope to secure at 'least two hours out of each twenty-four for 'my own work, without detriment to my I 'official duties, and if the two hours are not j 'practicable, one must suffice. I shall be in i 'the midst of the material I most need, shall j 'be aole to make the acquaintance of the 'men and women who can give me the best i 'assistance, and, without looking forward J 'positively to the completion of the task, I may satcly say that this opportunity gives 'me a cheerful hope of being able to complete it." . A Cn It n red Baler. The king of Italy begins his reign as a generous and judicious assistant of Italian culture. He has written to the president of the Lincei to announce to the academy the foundation of two annual prizes of 10,000 franc3 each from his private purse one paper on the physical jor natural sciences; the other on u moral, historical or philosophical subject. This academy is the most ancient scientific association in Italy, dating from 1003. and Galileo was one ot the founders. In his letter the king says: "I am perfectly of opinion with you that the value of nations mast be measured by their knowledge. For that reason I shall neglect nothing to- favor the progress of the national culture." LhjIui; l'p Treasure. Years azo a Methodist minister laid up a small treasure on earth, and it has returned ; to him after many days. vben he began E reaching he had $S0 to spare after buying a ome and completing bis outfit for the circuit, and he deposited it in a savings ban! in Lewiston, Me. He subsequently added $30 at one time and $100 at another to bis account, but did not call for a penny uatfl one day this week, when be drew out his balance. II is deposits had swelled with the interest to about $13,000. Vice Vera. "Daddy, don't it burn nice?" was the remark with which a party of masked burglars taunted a Berks county, Pennsylvania, funuor, last Monday nigbt, while some $4,000 la notes, mortgages, etc, which they had set on fire in revenge for bis refusal ta tell whra his money was hidden, was bwjg consumed before hla eyes. If they had b;n caught by the enraged neighiwra it is ruite likely that it would have b n daddy '4 turn to ink "Don't it hang nice?"

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL.

lis Us and Abas. The Southern Indiana teachers' association metinNeyw Albary, Thursday and Friday, the 21st and 22d. The matters discussed were worthy of remark, for they were the great questions" that leading educators are considering all over the hnd. Public schools, in all of tie states, have been the pride of the people, and money has been given more freely for their support than for any other purpose. Magnificent buildings have been ercctod, disciplined teachers procured, and the children of rich and poor alike have shared the benefits conferred by free education. Bet in many cities retrenchment is demanded by tax-payers, economy must be begun even at this late day, and the public funds must be more carefully dealt out, for the treasury is growing bare. And with this feeling the graded schools and the high schools are being vigorously examined to see in which department the pruning knife of retrenchment can be best applied. In some states the question is resolved into two parts, and each is vigorously debated, "whether it i3 better to reduce the salaries 'of all teachers, and maintain the high 'schools, or to raije the standard of scholar'ship in the lower gradea, without de'creasing salaries, and abolish the high 'schools." As yet the matter rests in statu quo, and time is given to the advocates of each plan to present their views upon the matter. In this light a paper read betore the association at New Albany has an added interest as bearing upon one side of the question. It is the one read and prepared by Mis3 Kendall, principal of the Madison schools, its title being "The Fublic School Its Use and Abuse." We can give but a synopsis of the paper, embodying the leading ideas. Beginning with the public schools established by the Puritans, when reading the Bible, writing and casting accounts comprised the course of study, the writer comes to the time when the high schools and seminaries became an abnormal outgrowth upon the system, drawing from it its strength and vitality to feed upon, and thrive out of proportion to the parent stock. She says: Yet we are an educated jeople very much educated; at least we ought to be In consideration for the mont y expended. Unfortunately, we are too much educated as to quantity, and not enough as to quality; nor la our knowledge of any practical value. So much is attempted that nothing is accomplished. Teachers teach nothing, because th time which should be used for Individual instruction must be taken for the class drill made necessary by the 'per cent, system. There is no originality, because methods must be uniform in acaccrdance with the graded systems. This state of affairs in daces teacheis to pour arbitrary statements into children's minds and listen for the echo. As for the children, they commit and repeat a smattering of this, a few technical terms of that, and the formulas for something else, but they learn nothing, and if they did, the knowledge would be of no avail. There is a sad waste of money, force, and precious time. The first two may be renewed the time never.In 11-5 Prussia s'arted out with a great flourish of trumpets to mount popular education on a pedestal. She established normal and training schools, lyceums, gymnasia, secondary and primary schools, aud challenged the s j .i - r . . i ii Tit admiration oi iue progressive wonu. xjikc i the United .States, she attempted so much that she accomplished nothing. After twenty years of the forcing process, Prussia declared lier school system a lallure and returned to first principles. The Prussian schools to-day are not free. They are supported by fees from each pupil, local rates and a sn ail govvrn ment grant, which is given only upon the most conclusive evidence that without It the schools can not exist. Only the absolutely Indigent pupils are relieved from the fee, which in that case is added to the local rate. The course of instruction in the common schools looks like the famous KozinanU' by the side of our well padded educational hobby horse; reading, writing, arithmetic, the elements of drawing, voeal music and the catechism; tliese are all. romc geogrnpuy relating to Prussia. ' may be taught orally and incidentally, but. it is not a part or the lezal requirements. This is the com ie comniou school. system, and attendance is compulsory from the age cf Mx to fourteen. Lyceums and gymnasia with small government grants are provUed for those who desire to pursue the higher branches, provided they pay the lees, and this is aa it shjmld be. The common school fund was not originated for the benefit of the few who have the time to acouire a higher education. They who have I time generally Itava the means, und should pay lor un instruction ueyonu iiiai wuicuimiy be taken by tne great majority. A town oi 15.000 inhabitants will enumerate 5,,W school children who draw money from the public treasury. Two thousand five hundred of this numler are actually enrolled in some school, but only about one hundred are in the high school, and not an average of ten will irraduale. In other words, of all the children whoenlertae primary schools only four per cent, enter the high scDool. and only two-fifths of one per cent, graduate. Other statistics show ttat 50 per cent, of all who enter the primary grades do not enter the sixth year. The high school consumes one-sixth of the school money, and each hih school pupil receives five thiee thousandths. The common schools consume flve-slxths of the money, and each pupil receives one-three thousandth of the whole; i. '., it costs live times more to educate a high school pupil than to keep a j child in the common school, or, the money six'nton one high school pupil will educate live for the same time in the common school. and the cost of one graduate equals the cost of 4 Who receive this Expensive education, and who pv for it? As a cefteral rule the rich man's children get it and the poor men pny for it. A man ,,,a nave marly thousands in . Lnited States bonds and pav t ixes on not more tlmn 80,1)00 in real estate.- His Bebool tax ' would be less than I'M: yet he has half a doen chiklnen wiili nothing tj do lit to ro to school, and they do go-the whole iamiiy-to the public father has contributed a suni equal to the private tuition of t-ne chili. But there are hundreds of men ia the same town who work for their daily bread, and are not loaded down with any bouds unless it l those of poverty. They may own homes worth from five hundred to a thousand dollar, but that is all they own; yet they may nay the same rate of school tax, one-sixth of which goes toward the support of a high school whose port Is are practically barred against their children by want of clothes or buoks, or by the necessity to earn money or law was never enacted than that which perverted the common school fund for the learn a traue. a. more unjust, 11-u oppressive hot-headed reformers, so called, to expend the people' money for a quality 01 education not needed by tlieir children for the exclusion of thorough instruction in that wuicli is needed. If tli 3 people of this commonwealth bad known what all teachers knew who had the courage to drop the reins ol their hobby horses nmt hxik- at. the rroilt?'s side of the i nest ion as well as at their on, that law would have! teen eliminated from the statutes of Indiana, ten years aito. ft takes about ten years to discover the weakness Of a popular measure and another ten to educate those most concerned up. to tlie point of decisive reform. Reference ha been made to the fact that the people demanded progrusa and paid for it, vet are not happy over tine results. They cert tinly pay for it in this state. biucu over ttilrd of every man's Uix la ror tne support of the public schools, and if onw dare murmur he i silenced with the convincing attcument that It is cheaper tosupoort school than prisons. That depends on l'xw tu schools- are su joorted and whether prisons cease to be an item of expense. Brvbwhena nation supports both schools and prisons, and when the exjense has become grievously burdensome, it is wisdom to. measure forces, expenses and remits, lairing IS the Ifulted mates expended Ih,U0O,0k lor school purpose, and for every thousand native white lnhnhltants bad one criminal and 49 iersons over "JO years who coold not read unu write. During 18U the United Btatea expendedJW.OWyiOu for school purposes, and for every thousand native white inhabitants had two criminals and 4i persons over 2D years of age who could not read and v.Tlte. Millions of millions of mc ney had been expended to eduoa'ethemasKeiaiHl establish and elaborate systems, and Mxes had bcu multiplied to secuwwhatf An li.creaseof 0,000,00; per annum in school expenditures, u diminution in illiteracy , and twice as many criminals to the thousand. But the popuki'lO'i had increased. Weil, let us measure the ratios: Theveras annual increase or th population from 18 X) to HC0 was per ceut., tut the average annual increase In school fcxpc nsos for the same period was 2i

per cent., while illiteracy remained the same and crime doubled. The question now arises: What would have been the result if the school monev had ben legitimately tin ployed lor the ch l'dren of the whole people in thoroughly teaching a few useful branches and prolonging the term of

instruction? iet it be answered at the polls. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. The foreign committee of the Episcopal church wants $140,000 for this year's work. The F.xn-Anglican synod in London will ' be in seshton during the whole month of July. . A rrcsbyfJrian college for the training of native Christan workefs is to be established at Cordova, Sptun. ( Canon Farrar, of the Kjglish church, has been making a trmr of Scotland as a temperance lecturer. lie is a zealous advocate of total abstinence. The people in a certain Massachusetts town, "up back" of Springfield, went one day last week to the lody meetings in anch numbers that the place was deserted and the mills had to be stopped. It is now stated that Mi: Barton, the heroic bank cashier, ot Dexter, Maine, -who sacrificed his life rather than betray his trust, "was the main 6tay of the Congregational church in his native town." It is proposed to open a hall for evasgelistic work in Marseilles, France. Being a seaport and swarming with people from- all countries, the place offers peculiar opportunities for effort of this kind. The southern Methodist general conference, which meets in Atlanta, Georgia, in May, will consist of 143 ministers and asmany laymen, representing 'SI annual conferences and about 700.000 members. The property of the Howard church, San Francisco, has been sold under foreclosure. The subscriptions made through Mr. Kimball's efforts were not all paid, and those who fulfilled their pledges will have their money refunded. "Mr. Moody don't know enough to convert mc," said a young girl to a friend at oneof the inquiry meetings. "No, but Jesus Christ does," said a voice behind her, and turning, she found that it was Mr.. Moody, who had accidentally overheard her conversation. The work of revising the authorized English version of. the . Bible is paid for in England by the syndics of the university press, who have a copyright in the book; the expenses of the American revisers are defrayed by private contributions. No compensation is paid to the revisers for their labor. It is expected that the work will be completed in two years. The ritualistic additions made by Mr. Tooth to the furniture of St. James church, Hatcbam, and which the chancellor of the diocese of Rochester has ordered to be removed, are: 1. A confessional box. 2. A tablet of wood, withan inscription of the St. James, Hatcbam, ward of the confraternity of the Messed sacrament. 3. Music stand, occasionally used by a brass band. 4 A wooden structure callen a tryptych fixed to the wall over the communion table, and extending over nearly one-half of the east window. 5. A screen," with doors of heavyworkmanship, separating a so-called "lady chapel" from the rest of the church. 0. A screen, with gates of heavy workmanship, separating the nave from the chancel. 7. A wooden beam, extending across the nave, for . ,-, the pnrpose of supporting a crucifi appeal from the chancellor s decision x. An will be taken. In regard to one of the much agitated questions of the day we read in the Golden liule that "it may be well for all Christians to remember, e?pecially those who are called upon to fulfill the duties of the ministry, tjiat the great object in preaching is not to convince men that there isn't a hell or is a hell, but to lead lives of such godliness that whether there is or whether there isn't will be taken out of the category of practical' questions. Some shrewd and witty man has . said we think it was Chapin when ques tioned on the matter oi his position in i resnect to future punishment, that iie did i . . v not preacn to Keep men out, oi neii, dui to keep hell out of men.' It is the present misery, the present wickednessr the present torture of guiltr that Christianity seeks to relieve men from. . Breach v salvation efficiently and damnati6n becomes simply theoretical."" The Methodist book coricern at Cincinnati will publish the new hymns in April. It will contain 800 pages and some l.lOOhymns. About two-thirds of the old hymns will be retained, the additions consisting of selections of the "Wesleys' contemporaries and predecessors, and from the new hymns that have stood the test of 25 or 30 years. The last revision of the Methodist bymn book took place in 184, when some alterations were made in the text, but these have been restored in the present collection, notably Hail, Thou once despised Jesus t llail.Thou Galilean king! over which there was quite a lengthy controve - sy recen tly. From 1 S20 to IS 19 "Thou Everlasting King" was the phrase, which subsequent revision approved; but in the new hymnal '"Thou Galilean KiDg" will appear, which must be regarded as settling the text. Among the new additions are ; hymns for sppCiai occasions, and there are special hymns on temperance, thanksgiving, etc. The standard size is 16mo. Then there j -will be a 12mo edition for popular use. The i pulpit edition will be 8mo. A 21mo, the I . 1 . . ft, i sold and an addition i ize ot which most , is soioj and an aoaiuon I in pearl type, double columns and flexible j covers, will meet the greatest demand. The bvmns will be indexed simply by numbers, ; and the number in the tune book will correspond with the hymn book. A correspondent noting the cardinals as they entered into conclave for the election of a pope wrote : "Each cardinal came accompanied by his conclavists, who were to be shut up with him, and attended by servants carrying carpet bags, bundles of rugs strapped up, and other belongingSy exactly as if they were arriving at the entrance of a railway station to go off by some special ecclesiastical train. One cardinal, in addi- . . . , , . j . v,.. ,w uou 10 ma uags aim 7'7 1 another a couple of coinfortabLe looking cusbions. With the procession of cardinals going in were intermingled many carious details connected with the ooaclave life they were about to commence. Men bearing, suspended from a pole borne on their shoulders, great bas:ts filled with table linen, hampers of wine, which, however, can only pass within the inner line when poured Into glasses or pellucid decanters uncorked; butchers boys earrying a considerable weight of meat choice .oinis, I presume; and (may I be excused the revelation) one big basket we were the contaxied pasiicetti (sweetmeats) for the eminences so addicted. "When the Spanish cardinal arrived three large trunks, covered with brand new scarlet leather and studded. with brassheadd nails, were carried in. 1 thought they canstituted their luggage, bat I was informed they contained the pon'i-. ficial aobes for the new pope, expressly prepared, according to custom, by the nuns oC the Dambin Gesu. No one could presume to predict the width or weight . pf tne new pope, or vhat his stature, long or short, might be, and the sacred college aitereti every variety. Three suits had accordingly been prepared, and as there were two cardinals Howard and Caverot who tower above their fellows, the longest bail been with a tuck in it to let down, should either of them be elected." The Remedy. To escape - the worthless abominations offered under the title of Baking Powders rests wholly with the consnmmery; $hey are the ones "that have to suffer. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Power is decided by chemist to be the most perfect and wholesome powder made.