Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1880 — Page 9

-THE, INDIANA- STAT?; SENTINEL; WEDNESDAYS Ä.Y 12, 1880 SUPPLEMENT-

MAY. 12. . i rJbm proper question wherewith to greet'sk friend from this time until' November it.-j "Who will be the next President?" All others ere utterly unwarranted. : , 1 Georg i Eliot, who has just married at the age of sixty, is not able to raise her voice above a whiscer. Mr. Croes. her new hus band, is evidently determined to have peace In his old'age. Asd now the Repabllcan officeholders begin to bleed. All of them are bored very muco, after the style of sugar trees. The poor devils winoe. but it Is no use to com plain the Rspuolican corruption fund must be large. It la pay or get out men and women. Assessments are made, and each one knows what is expected, and the money comes. Hayes, who draws Tilden's salary, pays very little it may be, for he is known to be a miser as well as a fraud, but his example la something, and helps to compel the unwilling employes to yield obedlenee to the machine. True, it la a great wrong a cruel shame; a detestable practice, but the Republican organs advocate it, and denounce those who oppose the Infamous proceeding. It says that under Hayes' administration "no assessments have been made or allowed; no department clerk, reveBueofficer, postmaster, or any other officer of the Government, has been constrain ed to give. Their offerings have been volun tary, and, as is perfestly proper, have been accepted by the committees intrusted with the work of carrying on cam paigns; and Congress can make no law pun ishing them for so doing. It is an impertinent attempt to meddle with private affairs. Congress might as well pass a law requiring officeholders to make a monthly report to the heads of departments, exhibiting a list of their personal expenditures, and showicg how they have spent the salaries paid them by the Government" The Commercial knows it talks like Mrs. Jenks or Liz Pinkston when it makes aach declarations, tne en tire army of Republican officeholders have been assessed time and again to raise money, and not one of them dare refuse payment. If Congress can put a stop to the business it ought n do so. and tb Republican manager who vu.d urn the laoaey from an employe should be sent to the penitentiary. A St. Locis dairyman makes a strong ar gument in favor of milk as a diet for children, and concludes that if milk were more extensively used fewer graves would be filled by -summer and heat complaint, fie says: The Bible says blood ts the life of the flesh in other words, the flesh is built up from the blood. The mother's blood then flows through the child, or builds up the child before birth. Mother's milk (white blood) flows through it or bullJM up the child alter birth. The mam mary gland perform the digestive functions of the new-born till the child's viscera gets old enough to perform its owa functions. No one knows the action that takes place In an egg in becoming a bird; it Is a vital action. It Is the same in regard to the action that takes place In the mother's breast In forming milk; it Is a vital action. One might as well try to manufacture a material and fill an egg shell to produce a bird as to substitute a material for milk. The analysis here shows that arrow

WEDNESDAY,

V root, gruels, starches or any other farinacious

material, often used for baby food, do not coAtain In solutions ready-made the following In gradients unless fermented: Blood: Water, 93.50; albumen, 8.00; sodium Vnd potassium chlorides, .60; sodium lactate tri J extractive . matter, .41; other lngredl it8, .09.' ' jM!Ik: Wateri(f7.40; butter, 4.00; milk sugar

sar d soluble salts, 5X0; casein, aloumen and In soluble salts, 1.60. Gruel or farinaceous substance fermented

Water, 1000.00; albuminous matter, 10.27; fibrlne, 7.68; Catty substance, 6.53; starch, 16.92; dextrine and sugar, 17.34 ; mineral salts, 3.15. An eminent professor of physiology said In his lectures that the first form of life is fermen tation. Johnson's Chemistry says that chemists suppose fermentation to be a vital act, but is not known. Yet as we see very plainly farinacious materials do not contain until fer mented the various Ingredients mentioned Hence If given children their bodies would have to perform this vital act so that they wonld become subservient to the tissues of the body. But the child's viscera are not capable of performing this vital act, hence they would act as foreign substances and produce linger lng sickness and death In the very young. If the viscera could perform these vital acts na ture would be foolish In putting the man mary gland in the mammals. The conclusions arrived at are worthy of the consideration of parents. The one essen tial, however, is that pure milk be obtained; pump water and chalk will not answer the purpose. (.- - - 1 THE PRESIDENT'S VETOThe Leading Repabllcan Paper of the Conntry Condemns It as Ill-Timed and Unneces sary. New York Times.l Mr. Hayes' veto of the special deficiency appropriation bill has taken Washington by surprise; not that a veto was unexpected, but that one based exclusively oh the fact that general . legislation was placed in an appropriation bill had not been anticipated Tbcrw was nothing in the position of the Republican party; nothing In the past course of .the President, which rendered inch a veto probable. It Is not to be denied um iu utuiuun imiu uuwu u V in rm u nt is a perfectly sound one. All "riders" auite as objectionable as he Daints them. present one combined some of the worst Aaree of Its class. It was addressed to a I pSirely political question that had given rise to very violent differences of opinion and feeling, r it was attached to a bill of which Uhe passage w.a Important and urgent. It Jwaaa resort to compulsory machinery for a political purpose, nnder circumstances, many oi . w men. max such a device ex tremely undesirable. Bat, while the soundness of the Presi dent's position from the standpoint of prin ciple must - be conceded. Its adrisabllltv from the standpoint of expediency Is open to question The particular "rider" to the insertion of which in an appropriation bill

the President objects, and on account of

which he assumes Vh responsibility of practically defeating the bill, was in princi ' vie a moderate one.. It was baaed , upon the suggestion of the leader of the opposition in the House of Representatives. 'It involved the concession of the constitution allty of the election ' laws, nd was pro fessedly an attempt to -guard their opera tion from . tendencies .which , Republicans admitted to be dangerous. It is true that the "rider" may have bad a real purpose different from its professed one; that its actnal effect might have been to nullify the laws which it pretended to amend and improve; that, In any case, it was Intended to entrap the Republicans into a Beem ing opposition to the amendment of the election laws, and so may have been a political trick. But It is difficult to see how the circumstances of its l,&t)S8ge make It such an attempt to coerce the President as required an immediate, un conditional and irrevocable resistance on his part The President not only might, but, in all reason, he ought, to have considered the remote, as well as the direct, consequences of his action. He has probably de feated an early adjournment of Congress. He has given occasion to the renewal of partisan passions over the form rather than the substance of the it-sues of the extra session. He has challenged the majority, in a spirit which they are not likely to Ignore or for give, not only to maintain their position in regard to this particular measure, but to take a like stand on the main appropriation for Marshals' fees the coming year. Should this challenge be accepted, the country will be plagued with a long, violent, irritating and probably fruitless political quarrel, from which no sound principle will emerge strengthened, and which may easily give rise to most unfortunate complications. While, therefore, we may concede the cor rectness of the principle by which Mr. Hayes professes to be guided, the wisdom of uis course is far from clear. The element of timiliness in an act so decisive and so preg nant with grave consequences can not be left out of view. The political situation Is at best sufficiently strained and threatening; It was hardly worth while to make it worse. the veto can not but make it. It was probably'in Mr.HayeB' powtr, by a temperate and reasonable explanation of his objections to the legislation contained In the rider, to have secured its modification in such a man ner as to have left the election laws atonce operative and acceptable to all parties. This would have been no small gain. It would have secured what the Republican party, with great firmness and earnestness. has long sought. It would have provided a substantial guarantee for pure and free elections this fall. It would have removed a potent caute ox partisan bitterness and excitement from the approaching canvass. It would have greatly lessened the dangers which may attend the determination et the results of the Presidential elections. If he had failed in bringing the majority in Congress to his views, or in securing some basis of agreement, he would have offered such terms as would have been refused only with great offense to public opinion. He would have placed himself and his party right before the people, and nave enlisted on theirside a public sentiment which would have gone far to settle the issue of the Na tional campaign. Instead of this, he hss raised an issue which is. to say the least, a remote and over-refined one. He has thrown away An opportunity to accomplish a signal good lor a shadowy chance to bnng about reform that the people care little for, and that id. in reality, one of inferior moment It is not to be expected that "riders" will be much less frequent on account of the veto The majority will hardly be compelled or induced to abandon them, while the great object of the effective administration of the laws for the protection of the saffraze has been neglected, abandoned and rendered difficult of attainment, if cot unattainable. TILDEN'S GUESTS. A Private Affair. Special to the Chicago Times. New York, May 9. This afternoon Speakcr Kandall, William L. Scott, of Erie, Pa. and Henry Watterson paid Mr. Tilden a visit together, and remained with him sev eral hours. Toward sunset Mr. Tilden and Mr. Watterson took a drive in Central Park in Mr. Tilden's victoria. A tew other visit ors were denied ad illusion to the Gramere y Park house on the plea that Mr. Til den was particularly engaged. Speaker Rmdall arrived from Washington in the morning and returned - to-night. Mr. Wat terson was invisible at the hverett Home thii evening, being fatigued. . Mr. Scott had not returned to the Fifth Avenue Hotel at a late hour, ine world says: "it was rumored at the Manhattan Club to night. where the Interview of Mr. Tilden s three trustiest aids with their chief soon became known, that Mr. Tilden, since the Oaio Con vention, had determined to prepare A LETTER OF WITHDRAWAL, with a power of attorney to his delegates to name a candidate, and that Mr. Wm. L 8cott was to hold the power in blank. Failing to find either Mr. Scott, Mr. Watterson or Mr. Randall, a reporter found Colonel Polton at the Everett House.. After a good deal of unfruitful skirmishing on both Bides, te following remarks were made: Will you say positively whether Mr. Til den has withdrawn?1' "I don't think there is a living soul who knows anything about it. "uoesn t air. maen xnow. or is he no longer alive?" "I have give a you my answer." "Will you speak about Mr. Tilden's health?" the reporter continued "Yes, I will say frankly that his health at ttls moment Is as good as It ever was Is Mr. Tilden pretty sure of the nomina tionr' 'Well, several States have instructed for him." "Isn't he likely to be nominated?" "I couldn't tell yon now. He may be nominated. IT IS A POSSIBILITY." "Who. then will be his Vice President?" "Oh, there are a hundred names. I don't see any choice. The Convention must de cide these matters." "Mr. Pel ton. do you think it is at all likelv that between this time and the Cincinnati Convention Mr. Tilden may see it becoming to retire from the contest for the nomination?" "How do you know that he is contesting for the nomination?" Asauming that." 'Well, you must not assume. But. before I answer your question, let me ask you why you think that he is about to decline?" "lie la reported to be 15 BAD H2ALTH." He is in as good health as he ever was, as I told you before. Why should he decline?" "Why, then, does he not appear more in public?" "He may have several reasons." The Piece They Hanker After. WheeUng (W. Vs.) Register. "Lst us have peace," says the Duke of America. Yes, let us all have a piece, says Baboock, Belknap, Shepherd, Robeson, Wil Hams, Jake Rehm, Bill Kemble, Eph Holland and old J. Madison Wells. And they'll get It if the Duke comes in ahead. 1

CENSUS ,0F;i 1SS0.

The Scheme for Taking It' and How It is ' Organizid-lnside Working of the . . ! ' Yait Machinery. The Clerks In the Bureau and What They Io Troubles of the Over-Burdened Potoffice Department. (Washington Letter to St. Louis Times. 'Census supervisors and enumerators of Arizona, Washington, ' Oregon, Idaho and Montana Territories will be eupplied with blanks, thirty for each enumerator, within the next ten days. Two tons of this matter were shipped from this city Friday n'ght. The printing had bten belayed because of i Congression al inaction, and tee census clerks worked day and night till the msil bags were filled, wagODS loaded at night and two tons of broad books, each envelopfd An a cotton Back, were sent away. Last night the PosVffico Department began in Wasnington to swear about five tons of blanks, enveloped and . packed like that above described, and addressed to the enumerators of California and Utah. Kaoaas and Texas will be supplied to-morrow, and for the current month daily shipments of mall matter from the census bureau will weigh five tons. Special agents will see that these papers are promptly forwarded and enumerators and supervisors will soon have their hands full. The whole work is to be done, in cities, within the first fifteen days in June, and everj where, during the twenty-six work ing days of June. Each enumerator is furnished a card for each day, very like a large "postal," on which is summed up briefly the work of the day. This will b? forwarded to the Washington ofSce each evening, and thus there will be a daily aver age of 32,000 of these cards to be inspected ani their contents summed up by the clerks here In W ashing ton; 864,600 of these little cards will go out aDd come back. They will travel each an average of 1,000 miles, or 864 000.000 miles will be traver&ed by tneee census postals. These and the grrat paste board books, each in a cotton sack, will burden railways and madden mail agents and clerks through the next two and a half months. In preparing this vast mass of blank and in conducting this correspond ence and organizing this machinery and putting this army of 35,000 men in the field for a campaign of one month foraging upon statistical facts of every conceivable charac ter, 140 men and women are employed in a great pile of brick and stone, with its mansard roof and broaza eagle on its summit. constructed originally as a crazy newpaper's sign-board, when credit moblhers and freed man's banks and JayCookes still prospered. the suited structure was the birthplace and abode of crude, wild fancies then as of solemn, bard and curious facts to-day. INSIDE THE CENSUS BUREAU BUILDING. It is a fearful workshop. There is r.o idle ness there. The whole is a perfect machine, acd each individual clerk must supply the demands of another, and on each door a superintendent regulates the distribution of tasks. These superintendents are trained accountanls, and were employed ten years ago at the same desks. But industry and capacity to comprehend instructions readily are the qualities chiefly i l demand, aud these mubt distinguish each successful em ploye of this Bureau. WHAT THEY DO. Not many days 'ago a dozen clerks were going through the great bound manuscript returns, made by enumerators in 1S70, to ascertain the relative procreative capacity of families engaged in different evocation The opinion obtains amorg the individual clerks that cobblers, lawyers and Massachusetts farmers are slowest in obeyirg th-3 primal command to "multiply ani rttleiJaüJ the earth." But facts gathered by allttte clerks will be collected, and when in tabu lated forms tell that cobblers aad tailors, like poets, are not born, but made. TLey have In any event fewest children, while men en gsged in transportation and fishermen have most. But these deductions are not wholly trustworthy, since they are only cor elusion? reached by an individual clerk who ex plored the arcana of a mighty volume of re turns from Eastern Massachusetts. ' PERSONNEL OF THE BUREAU. It is needless to tell that the scope of General Walker's inquiries is wider than evf r before. The returns from enumerators will give more minute, praotical and even curi ous information, affecting the moral and intellectual and peysical condition of the people of the United States than were ever furnished any Government by any scheme Of inquiry ever devised. It is onlv nnfoi tunate that, in the presence of a Presiden tial election, each Representative of each party, in his eagerness to win vote' by wit- - . - i 1 k. J 11. . Ding notoriety, nas sougut id eipeuu ne least possible sum in the acquisi tlon of the most useful and benefi cent information, and it is state! that the Bureau will be forced, as has alecdy happened, to overtix its employes, requiring them to toil by night and day. luey cave been confined to their tasks for the past four months much longer and more continually thsn employes of any other Department and not until Monday last were they suffered to rest half an hour at coon. Bat the clerks are imbued with the feelings and aspirations of General Walker and his chief assistants and there is not an intelligent servitor of the Bureau who is not impelled to toil by the desire to make the taking of the centuj of 1880 wholly successful and honorable to those encased in it The general Superintendent of the complex machinery of the census of 1880 Is General F. A. Walker. The chief clerk is Colonel C. W. Beaton. Colonel Boernstein's stationery clerk, Rawlins, is appointment clerk; Ice land is in charge of the supervisors and enu me rat ors, on the second floor of this tower of Washington. Burr is on the third floor, in charge of mortality returns. Gannett, in fourth story, manages the geographical di vision. Colonel C. S. Mlxttr, on the fifth floor, gathers and tabulates statistics of pop ulation, while Baron HUlman, of George town, in the sixth story, manages the schedule department Is is worth seeingand studying, this living machinery that gathers for distribution po litical and social and moral facts, without a knowledge of which government and society could hardly exist. Uncle Remus' Folk Lore. I Atlanta (Ga ) Constitution. "tine um wnar you wm en w'en you may," remarked Uncle Remus with empha sis. "trooa cniuons alters sreti tuck keer on. Dar woi Brer Rabbit's chilluns; day minded der daddy en mammy fum day's em' ter day's een Wen ole man Rabbit say 'scoot, aey scootea, en w en oie Mies Ksbbtt say scat,' dey scatted. Dey did dat En day kep der clcze clean, en dey ain't had no smut on der nose nuder. Involuntarily the haud of the little boy went up to bis face, and he scrubbed the end of his nose with his coat sleeve. "Dey woz good chilluns," continued the ole man heartily, "en er aey nadn't er bin der wux one time w'en dey wouldn't er bin no little Rabbits; na'er rne. D.u's wa't' "What time was that, uncle Remus?" the little boy taxed. "De time w'en Brer Fox drapt In at Brer

Rabbit's house, en didn't feun' cobvdy dar ceppin' de little Rabbits, ole Brer Ribbit, he wux off sorae'rs raidin' on a ooliaid patch, en old Miss Rabbit she was tendln on a q oil tin' in de oaborhood, en wiles de little Rabbits wuz playin hldin' switch, in drapt

crerrox. Le nttie uaoDita was so rat dat dey fa'rly make his month water, but he member 'bout Brr Wolf, en he steered for ter gobble urn up oeppln' he sot tome skuse. De little Rabbits dey mighty skittish, en dey sorter huddle deyse'f up tergedd r, en watch Brer Fox's motions. Brer Fox he set dar en study w'at sorter skuse be gwlnter make np. Bimeby he see a great bigs elk or sugar cace stanin' up in de corner, en he cl'red up nia m oil en ia:x oigsity: & . a s - t a -i en you young ksds over oari oau roun' yer en broke me a piece er dat sweet ein' tree,' sc zee, en den he koff. "De little Rabbits, dey got out de sugar cane, dey did, en dey rastle wid It, en sweat over it, but 'twan't no use. Dy couldn't broke it Brer Fox, he make like he ain't watchin', but he keep on holler'n: ' 'Harry up dar, Rabs: I'm a witin7 on you.' 1 "En de little Rabbits, dey'd hustle 'roun' en rastle wid it, but dey couldn't broke it Bime-by dey hear a little bird sin gin' on top er de hoiue, en the song w'at de little bird sing wuz dis yer: Take yo tootles en gnyaw it. Take yof tootles en naw It, Kaw It en yoke it. En den you kin broke It. Den de little Rabbits, dey gH mighty gle.d. en dey gn yawed de cane mos' fo' oie Brer Fox coald git lis legs oncrossf, en w'en dey tyard 'Ira de cane. Brer Fox, he eat dar en study bow he gwlnter make some mo kuse fer cabbin' un urn. en bineby he git up en git down de sifter w'at was hangin' on de wsll, en holler out: " 'Come yer, Ribe! Take dis yer sifter en run down't de spring en fetch me some fresh water.' "Ds little Rabbits, dey run down't de spring, en try ter dip up de water wid de sifter, bat co'se bit all run out, en hit kep on runnin' out twell bimeby de little Ribbirs Bot down and 'gin ter cry. Dm de little biid eettin' up in de tree be 'gun ter sing 'g'ln, en dis yer wuz de song: " -Sifter bold water same es a tray, Ef you Oil it wid mosH en dob it wid clay; De lox git madder de longer you stay Flit It wid mow en dob it wid clay.' Up dey jump, de little Rabbits did, en dey fix de sifter so t' won't leak, en den dey kyar de water ter ole Brer (ox. Den Brer f ox be git mighty mad, en p'int out a great big stick er wood, en tell de little Rabbits fer to put dat on de fier. De little chaps dey got roun' de wood, dey did, en dey lif at it so bard twell dey could see der own tins, hut de wood never budge. Den dey hear de lit tie bird singin', en dis yer wuz de song: " 'Spit in yo ban's en tug in en toll it, En git behine it, en push it, en pole it; Spit in yo' hau 'a en r'ar back en roll lt. ''En des 'bout de time dey got da wood on de fier, der daddy he come skippin' in, en de little bird, he tiew'd away. Brer Fox, he seed his game wcz up, en 'twan't long 'fo he make his ecuse en start fer to go. " 'You better stay ter tea, Brer rox,' s?r Brer Rabbii, eez?e. 'Sscce Brer Wolf done quit comin' en settin up wid me. I gittin' so I feels right lonebome dese long evenin s.' eezee. "But, Brer Fox, he button up his coat col lar tight en des put out fer home. En dat w'atiou better do. honey, kazi I see Miss Sally's shadder sailin' backerda en for'ds fo' de winder, en de fus' news you know she'll be spectln' unyou " THE STATE PKESS. The Logan?port Pharos Bays Treasurer of State Flemlnz was in the city a lew nuars io any ana paia tne r naroti a pit-a ant call. Mr. Fleming has been in 111 health for some months, bathe has fully recuperated and i looking better and feeling better now tban lie baa for a ionic time. He la Id kooü trim, physically, to enter the political context TjrlNVi. and Rom excellent work may be ex pected or him. .Mr. Fleming is without doubt ibe Dost political organizer in Indiana to-day: audtnatnewillezerci.se aeieat influence in the management of the camnahm iu this State need not be douDtea. lie taxes a rosy view oi ine poiiuc&i situation. He says mat ludiaoa win certainly maintain ner position in tne Democratic column, but that the size oi the majority will depend largely on the actions ot the Chicago and Cincinnati Conventions. Mr. Fleming 14 a Hendricks man, and would pre fer the nomination of the "favorite son' beiore all others, but is not very sanguine of that that gentleman's success at Cincinnati. After Hendricks he regards Seymour as the strong est man. He takes no stock in Tilden. Re ferring to this Congressional District. Mr Fleming expresses the opinion that the race Is by no means a hopeless one for the Demo crats, tie tninks a strong candidate could win as against any of the men on tue other side and the opinion is based on a full review and consideration ol the figures. Mr. Fleming is right. If the Democrat nominate a strong man in this District they can elect him, and the Pharos leels certain that It will be done. A.t any rate, the Rads may pnt It down a an undoubted fact that they will not get a Representative in CongresM from this District without a struggle, and a hard one. Mr. Flem ing will be renominated for Treasurer of St ate without opposition, and hence bis visit to Lo gan sport to-day has no political significance lie has no fences to look after. The Sullivan True Democracy says: The name of Napoleon B. Taylor, Eho., of Indianapolis, will be presented to the Demo cratic State Convention to assemble June V, insu. lor tne nomination for Judreof tne Su pre me Court, from the Third Supreme Judicial District. Mr. ravior nas been indorsed by tne legal profession of this State in a manner that aumiw or no equivocation. He is noneet. able and c suable, aud should tne honor of the nom ination lall upon him. It will be received by the people of this part of the State In the most gratify iug manner His Democracy is of the truest and purest type: and as Judge of the Supreme Coutt would discharge the duties of that responsible position creditably to himself and honorably toward tne people of this State. i The Wabash Courier says: Hon. John Lee, of Crawfordsvllle, would make a mighty good Lieutenant Governor, ana u wouia ouiy oe rewarding an old Democratic veteran for past party services to bestow tne omce npoa mm. He is competent ana wortny. The Brownstown Banner of last week says: Hon. trank Landers, candidate for tne Dem ocratic nomination for Ooernor, reached our town at 73U o'clock lam evening, immediate ly after his arrival tbe Court House was lighted up, the bell rung and the band brought out. and In a Bhort t'me the commodious court rom was tilled with people, including many wne were in wwn attending uourt. Mr. Lan ders was brought from tbe ..Etna IIouw. and Introduced by Judge Ralph Applewhite. He delivered a forcible speech, which had the ring of the true Democratic- metal In It. and which was received w th unbounded satisfaction by all who beard it. Mr. Landers is a man of great eai neatness and statesmanlike ability, a profound thinker and forcble speaker, and should he secure tbe nomination for Governor, may count upon Jackson Coun ty for a majority oi from l.uuu to i,vuu. Tb Warsaw National Union says: It thunders all along the line that Freeman Kelley. of De Kalb County, has an eye upon the nomination for Lieutenant Governor on tbe Democratlo ticket. Should Mr. Kelley re ceive tne nomination, iook oai lor a roarin canvass. He will pour heavy crare shot an canister Into the Republican party, and before the campaign is ended be will have dusted tne jacket or many a Kaaicai stumper. The New Harmony Register says: Streizht Is the old man of the sea on Indiana Republican shoulders. It won't do to put him tip for Governor, yet they can't get rid of him. He has a bar 'l, and is backed oy tne f ederal ring at Indianapolis. The Evansville Courier says: The returns Irom tbe city and town elections throughout the State Indicate that the Demo cratic majority in Indiana next iaii u me Cincinnati Convention does not handicap as with a dead weight wiU cot be lesa than ISßuO or 20.000. With Hendricks for President we would carry the Bute easily by 25,ouo.

HOME.

UnseUlahaeM Indispensable to Home Happiness The Bewards of Perfect Confidence Between H nab and a ad Wife. SIgnor feUx Is Detroit Frea PrM. ' Who gathers up the multitudinous threads that compose the warp and woof of family life, and arranges them in the loom in such order that the unskillful may fly the shuttle and see the fabric take form and color under their hands, must often seem to be engaged in trifling work. And yet he must not over look a single thread, if he would preserve the beauty and harmony and completeness of his design. Nothing that appertains to the family relation should be regarded as unimportant; and no effort that can be made to set out'the exact power of each factor in this great problem can wisely be omitted. The danger of fatal error in the result is too great not to render the utmost care the allimportant consideration in domestic arithme tic. It will not surprise me to hear intelli gent persons say that I attach too much significance to these units, but I can only answer that if it were not for the units we should have no grand aecreeate. There is this difference between what I may call literal arithmetic and my new science of domestic numbers. In the former vou can not multiply apples by marbles, nor pounds sterling by the dollars of our fathers; but in the latter there is no obstacle in the way of multiplying smiles by cheerful words. patience by manly virtues? or a compliment to your wife by an invitation to a picnic. I have sometimes had my own credulity a little shaken at the enormous product of happinesb thus obtained by families who have become adepts in this kind of multiplication. I am only a beginner in it, but the system is easy to comprehend, and progress is sure and rapid for every pupil who brings to the study of it a moderate dregree of application. The -1 ?i fit 1 - 1 . " T , . 1 iacimy wun wnicu it is acquired is pernaps not the least of its recommendations. That may also be the main reason why it has not been adopted generally. It is not the only eooa thing that men nave indinerently or contemptuously ignored because of its easy achievement. The bov who raids your or chard prefers the apple on the topmost limb to that which he can reach from the ground, because of the purely fictitious value he attaches to whatever he has labored hardest to secure. There is something of the same spirit in those husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, who seek happiness in the pursuit of wealth or in the feted embrace of society the while they ignorantly crush under foot the buds of joy that are ready to burst into blossom in their own neglected homes Make home your chiefest solicitude, and by a beautiful reciprocity it will repay you wih bounties richer than speech can tell, sweeter than sleep can dream. There is no rational or possible happiness to which the wile and husband may not as pire with hopeful promise of attainment, but there is one way, and only one way, to ach ieve it. Each must live for the other. Ab solute unselfishness is the indispensable con dition. Theolotists tell us that except we be lieve we can not be saved. I do not care now to dispute them. It is not a matter of spirit ual salvation 1 am dealing with. Heretical as it may seem, I shall beg the privilege to ggest that the theme in hand is of more practical and immediate concern than all the theologies rolled in one from the Yedas to the Fox Sisters. I would rather trust my own salvation to such letters of credit as the good man in his home may carry to the eternal gates tnan to any or all inventions of theo logy. Unselhshness can not exist without siacero anection, but with that lor a spur there can be no bitterness in sacrifice. lay, there is no sacrifice, because tbe joy ot giving joy is a double reward. .Lake mercy, it is twice blest, in that it blesses the giver oqually with the taker. A life relation founded on those twin rocks, love and self-denial, rallies to its standard an invincible host of gentle deeds. These form around their joint ommanders a cordon through which the al lied forces of earth and hell could not charge. The tempests of envy, hate, lust, slander, uncharitableness, and all the deformed brood of evil passions may blow upon them, but they only ruffle their bending plumes. There is no quacking or unsteadiness in the line. These are thetrue defenders of a lofty and potential faith. V hen entering upon the examination or this subject, I asked the reader to observe that I worked entirely from the man's point of view. It is essential to a proper understanding of my attitude toward the ideal home that this be not forgotten, or it is quite possible that women's finer instinct may seize upon phases of it which 1 am likely to overlook. I think, however, that we shall all agree upon tne general proposition tnat among the most important amenities for husband and wife to cultivate is frank and complete confidence. That man who can carry to his wife an unbroken record of his acts. hopes, purposes; who can confess his weak nesses and his humiliations, and disclose to her his innermost self, must at the outset be verv courageous: but after a few experiments of that kind tbe task is no longer a task, but a luxury. It would be interesting to trace the causes of this curious transformation, but I will not enter that labyrinth now. If any choose to pursue it I can offer a single clue, which 1 find in the fact that, despite their boasted distaste for gossip, men are as eager to dispense it as their wives are to receive it. r rom general gossip to. self-revealings is a natural step, and when it is once taken the Carriers to perfect confidence have all disap peared. ' "But," says the cynic, what is a man to gain by a resort to the domestic confessional?" I will answer that. In th first place. where those confidential relations do not exist there is unhappiness. The husband naturally demands that his wife shall surrender all her little secrets to him. He feels that failure tc do so is something in the nature of a rebellion not against his "authority," but against the unwritten law which has been a pan ot the social code since creation. The only way for him to enforce (hat law is to apply it to himself and yield precisely the oDedienco which he demands. Ho good wife will long be wanting; in appreciation of such an example, and she will seek opportunities to manifest her respect for it. That is one of the laws to which women (de fiant as they are, generally, of other s rights) yield unquestioning and ready obedience. When both obey it the immediate result is an understanding so cordial that itsbeneflcient influence is felt in every relation which they bear to each other. The husband makes the wire his inoorruptibly loyal friend; removes every possibility of distrust; enlists her interest and enthusiasm in his smallest personal fortunes, and finally molds her mind, heart, thought, and brain in accord with his. Most mysterious process of all, his own mind, heart, thought and brain take oh the delicate silkiness of hers. 'Mine

and thine" becomes the active law, the vital rule of life, the gracious interchange of deed and spirit of two human being thus made one. The sac redness of marriage can hardly be questioned in the light of such transform

. ing possibilities. They outweigh a wilderness of mistake) and incompatibilities'snd snatch the vail from the face of that false prophet, Divorce. So much for mutual con fidence. 1 appeal to men and women of every home on which civilization . pours Us light to say whether I have outrun the truth in my confessed zeal for that which I would like to see made the universal religion. The happy home is the spring whence flow all those pure and healthful streams that make men fine and women almost divine. What nobler office is there for the race than to keep that spring unpolluted. Parson Talmage Illustratles a Text tn Daniel. New York World. Before the opening prayer at the Brooklyn Tabernacle yesterday, between the opening prayer and the first hymn, and then before the sermon, Professor Ali blew his comet briskly. Then Mr. Talmage made a "notice of his pupil Harrison's revival work, which, he said, would "give thousands of Brooklyn people admission to tbe kindgom of glory and reserve seats about the throne of God. The text of the day was from Daniel v 27; "Thou art weighed in the balance and found wantiner.'' Mr. Talmage drew a ground plan of Babylon, embelished it with statistics, and said: "UD, what a city I and l tell vou tc-night that city is to be destroyed. The Kin? and his teopie were navine a drunken carousal, and the King sat staring, as drunken men will, at the wall, and tbe lights went out, and out of the sleeve of the darkness came the finger that wrote the awful words of our text. See them there I there! there! (and the preacher pointed to the wall of the Tabernacle so pointedly that the audience turned around and stared at it.) "We have no balance that is accurate except God's measure. God has a perfect bushel and a perfect peck and a perfect gallon. If a merchant pours out short measure, God notes it and the recording angel puts it down. A farmer sells apples, and every apple short is put down in that big, big book. But I am to talk of balances that weigh principle. The time will come when Gcd will sit down on the white throne and weigh the world; on one side the world's opportunities and the other side the world's sins. Then down go the sins and up the chances, and then the torches are applied, and God says, 'Burn that world!' A church is weighed, and if a church eaves a few souls when it ought to save a lot, he spews it out of his mouth. God has weighed the Spanish dynasty many times and always found it wanting. The French Empire was also put in the balance. There came up a cry of weighed and found wanting' from Sedan. The pomp and glory of France were weighed as nothing against the duplicity and libertinism of that man who went down at Sedan. I want to be personal. I don't believe in saving souls in the abstract. A hunter don't go to the Adirondacks to shoot deer in the abstract. (Bang at a hypothetical deer in the gallery.) Does a physician treat sickness in the abstract? You and I have a malady, and we go to the All-Wise Physician with tri r-rv Where is the balm for mv soul?' This is no abstraction, but, as we will find on the day of judgment, a sober piece of reality. Here is a moralist. Let us weigh this moralists. (Weighing something, very likely a moralist.) He passes for an upright man, the most exemplary in Brooklyn. Come in, moralist; step on the scales. But stop; what is that bundle you are carrying? lour reputation ah, lay it down. We wish to weigh you and you only. Have you paid your debts and been kind to the poor? Yes; well, so far so good. But, on the other side, have you always been right in your thoughts? Put down, a mark. Have you lost no opportunity of doing good? Ah, how many? Get a big book and put down a thousand marks for the 10,000 times that you have failed to do your full duty. And then the verdict will be and the result of the balancing, 'By the deeds of the law shall no flesh living be justified.' 'Here we have a formulist (catching one). Let us weigh him and see how heavy or how light he may be. What is that in your pocket? A Westminster Catechism. And in that other pocket? A Heidelberg catechism. And that book under your arm? A chnrch record. And what in that bundle? Colvin's Institutes. O, man, we are not weighing books; we are weighing you. Your religion and your orthodoxy won't save you unless you have Christ on your side. Men have gone down to perdition with the catechism in their pockets. You have sat at the table of communion. That won't save you. You have been a 'professor' for forty years. That won't save you. You may have everything of your conventionality and on the other side I'll put the text, 'Having the form of godliness but denyiDg the power thereof,' from such turn away. You'll go sky high." (Exit formulist, acrobatically). : . Deadening Noise. ' The Workshop Companion gives the following practical hints to those who carry on industrial operations involving considerable pounding: First, rubber cushions under the legs of the work bench. Chamber's Journal describes a factory where the hammering of fifty coppersmiths was scarcely audible in ' the room below, their benches having under each leg a rubber cushion. Second, kegs of of sand or sawdust applied in the same way. 1 A few inches of sand or sawdust is first poured into each keg; on this is laid a board or block upon which the leg rest, and around the leg and block is poured fine dry sand or sawdust. Not only all noise, but all vibration and shock are prevented ; and an ordinary anvil, so mounted, may be used in a dwellinghouse without annoying the inhabitants. To ' amateurs, whose workshops are usually placed in dwelling-houses, this device affords . a cheap and simple relief from a great annoyance. Another Story of Lincoln. . General McClernand and Commodore Koutz, ef Pittsburg, during the war originated a Mississippi campaign. The latter went to Washington and enlisted Secretary Stanton In its favor. The trio waited on Lincoln, and Stanton explained the project and named McClernand to lead the troops.' But," said Mr. Lincoln, "I hate to put McClernand over Grant; Grant is doing well ' enough." "Yes," retorted Stanton "but to carry out this programme we must have a dashing man. With his usual merry eye twinkle Lincoln replied: "Oh, if you want dashing man I'll send for Pope. He came dashing into Washington you know with not a man behind him; and when no man in c Washington .had the least curiosity to see; him?''