Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1888 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STAT.E ÖENTINEL', WEDNESDAY MANCH 14 1888.

TEUMS rv.ll 1E.1K. BlAl0op7, without PremtaiaM....MMM.MM. fl 00 Clubs ot six for.-.. eeee S 00 We uk Democrat to bear la mind tad select their own Bute paper when they come to take tubscrlpUous and make up clubi. If eat makim up clubi toad lor au v lalorma Hob desired. Address WD1ANAPOU3 BENTIN EL CO., Indianapoll, lad.

WEDNESDAY. MARCH 14 Tllii DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION Call of the Central Committee. Indianapolis. March 8, 18ÄA. 'J ne voters of Indiana, regardless of past political affiliations, who are desirous of co oper-ating-with the Democracy In the support of tu principles and nominees, are invited to participate in the meetings called throughout the Btate lor the purpose of selecting rcprcsen tally: to attend a Delegate ConTention tobe held In the city of Indianapolis Thursday, April 2C, 33", for the purpose of adopting a platform of principles and the nomination of candidates to te supported for the following o 31 cos: Governor. Lieutenant COTernor. TTarcc Judges of the Supreme Court. Secretary of State. Auditor of 8Ute. '.Treasurer ol State. Reporter of the Supreme Court. Attorney General. Fui'erlntondcnt of Tablic Instruction. ! The ratio of rcprcsenutloa will be one delegate for each two hundred votes cast for Gor crnor Isaac P. Gray la ISM, and one delegate lor each fraction of one hundred or over, at Jollows: 3 O it A 9 1 71 15 8 ir 9 IS 10 4 II 3 8 10 10 10 9 9 11 7 l 11 12 12 5 17 15 4 7 21 8 21 11 4 27 27 13 5 1! 1H 12 IS 9 12 Covstie. Counties 1 A mi. .A! i a Jin i nolemew. 13 : Lawrence 4 Madlsoa Is , Marion 7 , Marshall 5 ; Martin 15 Miami H Mnnnw Bia w:'ord Hooue..... Brown......, Carroll... , : s-, .. Clark C T 4 i Clinton , t'rawford.... lhivlesS learrora.. Decatur Delaware DeKalb XHiboi IKlkharU J-ayette Tloy J Fountain .... franklin. ... Pulton (iibson rnt iretn ... Hamilton ... Hancock .... Harrison.... He:ilricks.. Jteary Howr rd Huntington Ja Lsou Jasper......... Jy Jeilerson..... Jennings..... JObDäOa... lKüo.x 12 20 19 15 16 8 12 18 12 10 14 1 20 7 IS 12 l.i 10 13 It 12 12 12 13 10 11 10 16 16 s 13 11 9 13 18 15 7 10 a Montgomery Morgan...... ' Newton ; Soole Ohio orange ....... Owen Parke 1 Perry I'Pike i I'orter.. ' I'osev .. ...,. ....MM i Pulaski.... Putnam... I Ktnlolph Ripley-..... 1 Uush , I scott , : Shelby ! tpencer tarke.-. Steuben .. ... ! it. Joseph , SU tli V&Q....MMM... , Switzerland ...... Tippecanoe. I Tipton Union Vsnrterhnnr Vermillioa Vigo Wabash Warren... Warrick Wayne Washington Wells White Whitlev JvOM-iusko 3jiernge ............. -Lke L' rfe.. The delegates far each Conpresssonal district, and the several committees, will meet on the evening previous to the convention, at places lo be hereafter designated by this committee, Jor the purpose of selecting and reporting to the convention: One Committee on remanent Organization. One Committeeman ou Platform and Resolutions. One Vice-rresident lor the convention. One Assistant Secretary for the convention, Two delegates to National Convention. Two alternate delegates to National Convention. One Presidential elector. One contingent Presidential elector. Cue member of the State Central Committee, One Committeeman on Credentials. It will ba the duty of the Committee on Permanent Organization to report a President and pricciDil Secretary of the convention; four debates at large, and four alternate delegates to the National Convention; two elestors lor the SUte at large, and two contingent electors, And also to recommend rules for the governZnent of the convention. By order of the State Central committee, E. P. RlCll APtMOS, . O. Johnson, Chairman, fcecretary. 8)MX0f the newspapers have been having a great deal to Bay about an alleged unpleasantness between Secretary Vilai and Senator Voorhees, and have represented jthose distinguished Democrats in the light of enemies. It is evident, however, from he spirited manner in which Mr. Voorhees defended the Secretary from Republican attacks in the Senate the other day that Iiis relations with Mr. Vilas are not very jDadly strained. Wi trust that Judge Woods and Mr. Btllers will not think ui obtrusive, but, in the name of the law, before which people of all parties are supposed to stand ztpon precisely equal footing, we again auk for purposes ot publication, when Will General Camahan, Chairman of the republican County Committee, indicted gsy the same. United States Grand Jury that indicted Simeon Coy, Chairman of the Democratic County Committee, be put ppon Lis trial? All the monopoly organs are predicting dirt disaster if .the Milli tariff bill becomes law. It la the same kind of talk that the monopoly orgtns Indulged in so freely when the Bland" silver bill was pending, amd when C.tveland was running for President. Bat the silver bill was passed and Cleveland was elected, and the country is Uli here. We don't think a reduction In lazes will send it to the demnition bow wows, and we don't think the monoDoly organs think so, either. They are simply grinding the tuns thair masters tell them to grind. Thk Democratic 8tat Central Committee yesterday elected Senator Edward Richftrdson, of Pike County, to succeed James If. Elce as . chairman, the latter having resigned owing to the demands of his private business and his seceswary absence from the Sute for a con iderable portion of the next few months. Jit. Rice's resignation was accepted by the Committee with profound regret, "Which will b shared by every Democrat In Indiana. Sis aM'i'j ai t political Of ganizer, his la-ga acquaintance throughout the btate, and hie long experience la campt'n management coiabliied to mail

him almost an ideal Chairman. It Is pleasant to know that while he cannot serve the party longer in this capacity, It lll have the benefit of his hearty coo,' rratlon in the great campaign that la abont to open. "Jim" IUce will help make things Interesting for "our frU nds, the enemy," in Indiana this year, just the same as If he had retained the chairmanship.

EMPMKOH WILLIAM. Bo the old Emperor has beaten the Crown l'rince to the grave, after all! For months they ran neck and neck In the race toward the dread goat, bit latterly the odds seemed to be with the Prince, and the Emperor's death, so long expected, and so swiftly Inevitable In the course of nature, comes at last with the shock ot the unloosed for. The eyes of Europe and the world haveof late been fixed upon the imperial sufferer at San Kemo, quite forgetful for the moment of the old monarch in the trim and lonely palace of the Unter den Linden upon whom, the while, death was creeping with stealthy but certain tread. Well, its all over; the brave old man has succumbed to the universal enemy at last; he has paid the debt of nature, these many years overdue; and the shadows of the tomb toward which his body will quickly be borne are already heavy across the pathway of him npn whose shoulders falls the mantle of the dead. It's the old, old story, always old and yet always new; the old, old teujn, ever teaching, but never iesrnf-d; the old, old dirge of mortality, as old as the rice Itself, that nature has been chanting t J a!l the countless generations that have come and gone since Drat the morning stars sang together. "The old must die, the young may die" Is the familiar adaee. But the young, too, are mortal, and Unser Fritz, only turned fifty, Ibut yesterday, as it were, strong, active, stalwart just on the threshold, as It seemed, of a great career; Unser Fritz is to-day in the vary valley of the shadow, through which the Kaiser, bearing bis heavy burden of nearly a century, is just vanishing into the Invisible. The late Emperor was a remarkable man and his career was among the raost extraordinary in history. When he was born Napoleon Bonaparte was Eaipsror of the French; George III was King ot England; John Adams had but just been inaugurated President of the United States, lie was on the verge of manhood when the battle of Waterloo was fought, having accompanied the allied armies in the final campaigns against the great Corsican. He was approaching middle age when the telegraph aDd the railroad were introduced; was well on toward the zenith when the first s'.eamship crossed the Atlantic; was already an old man as old men go when the first ocean cable wect into operation. SIr.ce he attained maturity there has been a complete and most wonderful transformation in the social, political and industrial life of two continents. The American republic has gfowa from a feeble, s traveling, puny interloper in the family of nations into one of the mighty powers of th e earth. England has beoms a republic in everything but the name. A Tatted Germany and a United Italy have realized the dreams of centuries. France has pateed through all the stages of political existence from absolutism to anarchy, nd half way back to absolutism. Serfdom has been abolished in Russia, slavery in the United States. The last traces of feudalism, which were still a potent force in the social organization of Europe ninety years ago, are rapidly disappearing. Indeed a bare enumeration of the vital changes which have taken place in the civilized world during the period embraced by the Emperor's life, and in some of the more notable of which he was a conspicuous actor, would fill a library. We only name some of the more striking, as an illustration of how fast and how lar the world has traveled away from the old landmarks since this rugged Teuton Erst opened his eyes upon it. He was a man of strong parts; not a genius, not a thinker, not a creator; but a man of abounding courage, of great tenacity of purpose, of rare judgment, an intuitive knowl edge of human nature, a phenomenal aptitude in the selection of men ; with a keen military instinct, joint product of heredity and environment; and above all a magnificent physique, his rightf al heritage as a Hohenzollern, of which full account must be taken in any estimite of tbe factors that combined In the making of bis career. Without a Bismarck, Wilhelm would never have been Emperor of Germany ; there would have been no Germany to rule over; but with one of different type ss King of Prussia, twenty years ago, we may well doubt whether even a Bismarck could have created that great Empire vhich to day controls the destinies of Eorop.

GOOD DEMOCRATIC AMMUNITION. Tbe arifl question is to be the com -mandin; issue in the approaching Presidential campaign. The President's message baa bron -ht this great question fairly and jqnirely before the country. Neither party can evade It if It would; the Democratlo party, at least, would not If it could. It is evident that all other questions will be lost sight of in the campaign, and that the bftttli will be fought out and won or lost up an this issue alone. We think the Democracy is certain to win. 1 1 is on tbe right tide of the question. The demand for the repeal of needless taxation levied, not for the support of the Government, but for the benefit of a small element in tbe population at the expense of the great masses of the people, cannot . fail to be emphatically sustained by the country, if it is clearly and effectively preserved. Every Democratic journalist, every Democratic voter, every Democratic candidateevery Democrat, in short, who is Interested in the success of his party ought to inform himself thoroughly upon thia subject before the campaign opens. He should be thoroughly equipped with tbe facts and familiar with the arguments which demonstrate the folly and injustice of a high protective tariff. AU that la necessary to comiace reasonable and lnUUigdt men of the badness of the existing system Lb to set them to reauliiig a. maUs:, m Him fr tto H 9

I mocrats this year to Induce their Republican friends and neighbors to Investigate this subject for themselves, and to afford them suoh assistance and facilities In

o doing as will enable them to get at the truth. General Herman Lleb, of Chicago, has written and published a little bo ok entitled The Protective Tariff; What it Does for Us," which Is a perfect arsenal of,' ammunition for use In the impending battle for tariff reform. It is full of facts and statistics illustrating the workings ot the protective system, especially as it aflecti tbe farmers and wage-workers of the country. This book ought to be in the hands of every Democratic speaker, writer and worker in Indiana before the campaign opens. Every man who expects or hopes to do anything to help the cause of tariff reform this year will find it an Invaluable aid. We write this not for the sake of General Lieb, but for the benefit of the Democrats of Indiana. Our recommendation of the book is entirely unsolicited and is made only because of our knowledge of Its merits. We advioe our Democratic friends to procure this little volume without delay, and give it a careful perusal. A GOOD DAY'S WORK. Tbc Democratic S:ate Central Committee met yesterday afternoon in the commodious and convenient new quarters in tbe old 8'ate building. The principal business for which the committee was called together was the fixing of a tlaae for the State Convention. Thursday, tbe 20th of April, is the day selected. This is an early date, and a good one. We congratulate the committee upon the wisdom displayed In deciding noon an early convention. The Democracy should be first In all things this year, but especially in the matter of holding conventions. We know what we want, and what the people of tbe country want, and our banners all along the line should be flung to the breeze early in the fight. It Is especially important that the Democracy of Indiana should make.early declaration of their faith and purposes. This State is destined to play an important part in the next campaign, the most important in its history. The electoral vote of Indiana this j ear will, in all probability, determine the.result.' The Barons of Protection and the arrogant Lords of Monopoly will swoop down upon us in all their force in support of the Republican tioket. We must be prepared for them by intelligent organization and a thoroughly united party. An early convention means all this. In the selection of a chairman the committee did well in the choice Of State Senator Richardson, a thoroughly trustworthy, industrious and painstaking man, who will perfect an organization of which himself and the party will feel proud. The committee would have liked to have availed itself of the wide acquaintance and political experience of Mr. Bheer'n in the position of chairman, and in this desire none were stronger than Mr. Richardson ; but Mr. 8heerin had uncompromising business engagements which made it impossible for b im to accept the place. His services to the party will not be lost, however. He is a member of the Executive Committee, and will cheerfully and unreservedly give his spare time to the canvass. The committee did a good day's work. There is food for reflection in the difference between its methods and those of tbe Republican Committee. There is no click of the machine around our committee rooms. The party good and success in November next is the single and honest purpose the committee has in view. DOWN WITH THE WAR TAXSS. Henry Clews Jt Co., of New "York, in Ihpir weekly financial circular say : Tbe tariff question is an unwelcome matter of uncertainty, and the prospect hardly favors the early passage of any law. The Mills bill, as presented by the full Ways frd Means Committee on Tnursday last, has many features to recommend it. It provides for necessary reductions of tbe tariff, and probably offers as little disturb ances to established business interests as any that could be devised. It has ben drafted with this special end in view, and ooght, out of regard to business Interests alone, to be pushed to an early passage. But unfortunately political considerations often overrule all others in the estimation of our worthy representatives at Washington; and this being a Presidential year, the prospects for speedy action are all the more remote. The Democrats being divided, tbe Republicans are not likely to very actively support a measure for waich they themselves would rather receive the credit should the measure prove popular. The New York Herald prints more than a ptge of interviews on the bill with leading business men in tbe most important commercial and manufacturing centers of the country. There is a very decided preponderance of sentiment favorable to the bill, and this is notably the case in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Providence and other seats of extensive manufactories. The Philadelphia Times, an independent Democratic journal of great ability, large influence and wide circulation, cordially approves the measure and urges its passage. The Times has long been very friendly to Mr. Randall, and ia deeply tinged with the peculiar economic superstitions which are so prevalent in Pennsylvania. But it declares that the Mills bill leaves the mannfacturing interests all the protection thej can reasonably ask for, and it warns them that if they succeed In de feating it. they will only hasten tbe day when the whole fabric of protection will be swept away. The Philadelphia Record, which has been preachiDg the gospel of commercial freedom to a vast audisnce of Pdansylvanians for a number of years, is outspoken in Its approval of the Mills bill, which it hails as a long step in the direction of genuine revenue reform. The Democratic press of the country Is unanimously supporting the bill, even the New York Sun admitting that it is in accord with the declarations of the National Democratic platform of 1884. The leading Independent journals of the country, the New York Times, New York Herald, Bjston Post, Toston Herald, New York Post, Chicago T'lnes, and others of that class, endorse the bill. It remains to be seen whether there are enough so-called democrats In the House to unite with Bam Randall, the accredited agent in Congress of the tariff rlage, to de ftat i mftasire wbtoa is so overwhelmingly sustained by the democratic sentiment of the country, and the basin sea interesta of the oouatryt

PROTECTION AND LABOR. Driven from other positions, the expounders of tbe gospel of licensed spoliation have of late years fallen back upon the assumption that we need a high protective tariff in order that American laborers may compete on equal termi with these of Enrope. Or, as Congressman But terworth puts It, "the object of a protective tariff Is to correct Irregularities and equalize conditions" between laborers of dliferent countries. Putting aside all thought whether the object aimed at could possibly be attained by the means proposed, it Is worth while to consider whether the reason so often assigned why so many of our Industries need protection Is correct There is a prevalent delusion that in these protected branches ot production the United States is at a positive disadvantage compared with other nations; that the ratio between cost and product Is greater here than abroad. A little refaction will show that this opinion Is wrong. Even protectionists acknowledge that in manyot our highly protected Industries we possess advantages superior to those possessed by foreign . countries. Indeed one ot their strongest pleas a plea, alas! disproved by experience is that with the slight start a temporary tariff-tax will give tb88 Industries, they will be able to stand up by themselves and drive the Imported goods from the market. This being so, why should these industries be protected at all? Why should the manufacture of cottons need protection and wheat raising not? Protectionists admit that it is not because in cotton manufacture we have no advantage over England, while in wheatraising we have. The reason given tor the difference in their needs is that cotton manufacturing can not be engaged in and tbe same profit made that could be made by raising wheat, unless It is given pro tection. Not that cotton manufacturing Is less profitable here than In Eoglaud, but that It is less profitable here than Is wheat-raising here. . It may be objected that the wheat raising farmer makes no more than does the cotton-mill operative. The former has great difficulties to contend with almost every article he buys is taxed to support an "industry" managed perhaps fifteen hundred miles away artificial obstacles piled on natural ones. But It is not true that the farmer has no advantage over the "protected" mill operative, even in the present condition of things. It is In tke factory towns of New England, not on Western farms, that the most poverty and misery are seen. Only a small part of what the farmer is taxed out of, goes to the factory laborer; the factory laborer is taxed out of the rest by the only one that is really protected the man that lives and grows rich o3 the earnings of others.

AARON BURR. What liurr's Blue Trunk in the Attic ContMncd. Brooklyn Eagle. J To the Editor: Is it true that Aaron Burr ws scoundrel enough to hold intrigues with ladies ladies well known in society: to preserve tbe letters they seat to him, and, ultimately, to leave that correspondence as a legacy to his daughter? 1 have never thought Burr an honorable man, but I was not prepared for a charge like this, wbic.'i was made la presence ol several gentleman on Monday evening. Bernhardt. Answer The more Burr's character ia submitted to fair-play analysis the blacker it a d pears. The particular charge referred to by our correspondent has been substantiated more than once. The late Thurlow Weed, a man who did not ordinarily betray the communicative spirit, upon being interviewed some years before his death, eaid: "When I knew him Burr best he was well advanced in years. He was one of the worst men that ever lived. He had no scruples whatever about betraying a woman, and he chose the loveliest in the land as his victims. About tbe time of the duel with Hamilton he had disgraceful intrigues with a dozen or twan'y ladies at once in New York, Albany, New Haven, Providence, Boston, BiUimore, Il'caiEond, and smaller towns between toon. Some of these were kept up for yea r8, bat most of the ladies had spesdy auccrstb. I speak of them as 'Udis' may wtie t e wives of brilliant lawyers, or wealthy meichaxts, or the young daughters of the fashionable old families. There was an agony of fear among these when the duel was fought, lest the guilty gallant should fall and their terrible secrets be betrayed, and this fear deepened to consternation when he died at last. Many of the oldest families of New York, Pennsylvania, and New EDgland trembled then, and well they mght." "What could they have feared there, so many years after?" "Why, you see, it has been rumored around that Burr never destroyed any letters from ladies. And this shows better than anything else his lack of any moral sense whatever, for he refused to protect those whom he had grievously inj ored, when they could have been protected without a moment's thought." ' Did he usually keep all these letters, Mr. Weed?" "He did, probably every one. He used to boast that he had never destroyed one. And with devilish method he had folded them all carefully, and filed them regularly in packages ach lady's letters by themselves. When Burr died, Mathew N. Davis, about his only friend, who became his administrator, sent for rue. I went over. There was nothing to administer on but the expressions of tendernesss which the scoundrel bad cajoled from respectable women and hied away. There was the will which he made the day before his duel with Hamilton. In it he said to his daughter, Tbeodosia, bis only legitimate child, then at tea: In a blue trunk In the attio you will find something to amU8e, more tO instruct, and still more to regret.' That blue trunk, which he thus bequeathed to his only child, and that child a lovaly daagh ter, contained tbe carefully treasure! love letters from a dozen women at time proofs of ier father's depravity. Does not that show that Burr was without any moral sense whatever? Tneodo9ta waa swallowed Dp by the waves and never saw the blue trunk. We opned that trunk, which Davis had partly examined, and I eh ill never forget my astonishment and disgust at what I saw. It was nearly fall of lettM from women, tied in packages. We looked at tbe individual letters. Most ot them hid been originally signed with initials only, or of lener without any ntmi, or with some pet name; but Burr, with a malignity whose motive I cannot yet uiderstand, had written out esca name in folL He seemed resolved that others should share his Infamy. Borne of the names bolonred to the most honored families in the land. To have revealed them wou'd have been to cause terrible anguish, and In several cases probably the breaking up of fiknl.'ies." Did sou read many of them?" "Not very many. I used to go over and lock at them when I had spare time. They were strictly guarded by Davis. He was A quf er man, bat be had a hleh sense of personal honor. Why, Mordecal lt. Na ah offered Dartl 120,000 for that blue trunk and Its con teats, but. of course, the oner was spurned aad the Insult resented."

WEEK WITH BEN-HOR

How General Lewis Wallace Write Eil Fimosi NjtbI. Tbe Story ot Its Writiog as Told by a Friend How the Imaginary Child llen llur Grew Up An Interesting Story. Wrlttoa for the .Sentinel. (Copyrighted, 1M. In April, 147H, the writer was In tbe golden age "when the years are all summers." Her happy lot It was to visit Mrs. Lew Wallace In Crawfordsvllle, Ind the homejwhere the imaginary child, Ben-IIur, was growing up. The famous "chariot race was on" at that very time, and one might fancy It would have destroyed the family peace as thoroughly as the car of Juggernaut crashing through the house, but sot so, for General Wallace adds to his greatness the supreme grace of being amiable at home. It is a pleasure to remember that during the week spent so near Ben-IIur and the "wife of his youth" the sky was not darken.. i'j one impatient word. Tbe crack f U-i-cLarlot wntpis heard around tbe wt.Hii in leveo dlflrent languages, but It Qrv.r f-II ii pon tbose of his own househeld. The book was dedicated to his ladyl"e, a roval ofl-riog, worn with every roiuaiily g-ace befitting it. ' l WallacVe manner was s cr urtiy tbitt the first half day the visitor trembled a Ml wishtd bim awnv. that she might ei joy ibe charming wl'e nnoppreased by hie imperial presence. Hat the gulf was bridged bv Ms oa -"isle. Toe next morning the house fairly quaked as he Saced his ttudy, to the tune of "good old rtonville." or some other bulwark of tbe Methodist hymn-book, roared so lustily that it might have waked a mummy I At the breakfast-table he said, with awful stateliness, "Did you hear sounds of melody from my room this morning?" "Yes," said the Dash tul maiden (who still had th ear-ache), "but I should call that bellow dy." The singer stared an instant, not being used to such very plain English, then burst into a laugh as merry as the Cheery ble Brothers. The ire was broken, and behold the waters beneath were warm the very fountain of-life and good cheer, i The Ben-Hur study had but few requirements for this easily satisfied man, so he had chosen a little nook as far from the household sounds as posslole, and as b irren of "modern conveniences" as a monk's cell. The children of his fancy needed no seats they peopled the air and he occupied the only chair in the room. All the rest of the furniture stood on the four.legt of the table pens and paper heaped con f usedly on a big blotter.the New Testament Geikie's "Life of Christ," "Ivan hoe" and few reference books. The door wasalway shut for work, but opened readily for p'.ay, and the vUitor usually knocked as she passed, and always heard the cordial "Come in," responsive to her interruptions. Then he would tilt back in bis chair and pocket his hands, like all other men, and langa and talk like precious few other men. Often he would read aloud what he had j net written, and ask if it would do in a way that would have flattered the very elect, and which gave rise to the visitor's doubtful boast that she had helped write "Ben Hnr" that Is, abe bindered; bat it was all tbe same, so the author had made her think. Thia waa courtesy, pure and simple, and an example to less busy men. He wrote first on a slate to rub out easily, then on soft paper with a pencil. His patience in going over and over the same ground till be had brought it up to his standard would have commanded the respect of an ant. The final copy of the book was on laree unruled paper, in violet ink, so exquisitely done that the professional reader of the Franklin Square house pronounced it the finest manuscript ever öftere 1 him. I remember a little dispute between BanHut and his wife over a word. He said that when he began the book he was two days searching fer an adjective with just the right color in it to describe a certain thing, and at last he found it in opalescent. Mrs. Wallace declared for opaline as being simpler, but, wife-like, she yielded to the stronger authority, and, no doubt, flourished opaline in her next publication. We find this jewel of a word in the march of the wise men "By and by the moon came up, and as the three tall wii'e figures sped with soundless thread through the opaleecfnt ligit, they appeared like spectres flyta from hateful aha low '' General Wallace's absent-mindedness is a proverb in his family, which brings dowa many a gibe on his head, and before the laugnter at his putting sugar in his softboiled egg (two heaping spoonfuls) had died down, he might be seen, just as deliberately, salting his coffee. This quality might be one of heredity, if certain wild legends- pointing! toward his maternal grandfather are true. He is peculiarly a man of reserved force He Hvee in the background ot himself, and the casual observer fails to see the big heart buttoned up within, the laughter earried in his sleeve, and the inexhaustible industry in his pockets. Read the recard of whfti he has accomplished in the fields of battle, diplomacy, art and literature, and yon will see how great his energy is, though every trace of it is suppressed, somehow, as he goes about his daily duties . with, lef s bluster and hurry-skurry than tbe ordiDa-y man takes to get his one talent bnried in the ground. 80 he always had tima for houshold matters, and could, and did minister to them as well as he could, and did minister plenipoteutiate. His wife said one day, "Lew, the little hanr tam ben has hatched her family." "Has she?" said he "how many? 'with as mach interest as if they were American ales. ADd when Bhe asked him to "go ana taksher off" he went, and could.be seen stooping down before tbe nest, handling the tiny hair-gpriog chickens tenderly enough to suit even tbe fussy bit ot a mother. If tbote chicks knew who it was that set them up housekeeping, tbev would bave all grown up peacocks. Fancy Thomas Carlyle asked to stoop SO low! He would bave annihilated "all those pretty- cbiekena and their dam at one fell swoop," and then grumbled for a week because the hen bad picked bim. General Wallace Is fond of writing out under the forest trses that 3urround his bouse, and tbe bantams used to- settle on his shoulder and knee, and eat out of bis hand as he sat there alone with his oirn creations. Through ail that visit fan curried the day and part of the nighty too, for each evening brought a party in some friend 8 house, and Ben-Hur was rutbleealy dragged from his chariot aad carried off to every one of them. He went not "as a schoot boy toward hie books,' moreover nay, be flocked witn the magpies and jay-birds as if he tad been of their feather, and many a time (Mr. Beeeher to the contrary notwithstanding) the eagle waa heard to cackle. To be sure, he would of tea forget the sport, and we would see bo was Bailing tbe et he of eighteen hundred years agone, but somebody would bring him down with a jocular lasso, and ha never fall'd to fall with his smile on tp. He carries but two signs ot his vears shout htm (be was born In Broohville, Ind., April 10, 1827). Hii hair hai reachel that uncompromising spicy mixture called pepper and salt, and then the sp:ctaoies be 28 a sad victim to them they and he dI-w a perpetual game of hide anl33ek! Of comae ha never remembers where ba put ihem. por what their favorite hidingplaces are. and after overhauling erery1 hing within reach he ours ihrm from

ambnih on top of his head or in his othr hand. They worry him quite oat of his Wll. 31 have seen him while Inthema:esof 1 admirable lecture on Turkey betöre a crowded house begin that pitiful search with his hands, feellog and reaching for them all over the lecture field, lie is so used to depending on his wife to supply all his little personal needs that, in the speo-tacle-caae, which Is tbe only one she cm not fill, be rinds himself entirely at sea.

Che is ois secretary, almanac, and memorandum, and a wife In the highest sense of that high word. One of her favorite sayings is. "To work for those I love Is my chief joy." Bhe and four elsters were brooght up by a Qaaksr mother to the wholesome old belief that "it is wicked to be idle," and her well-ordered home shows the precept in hourly practice. In all their tastes Ben-Hur and she are atone, and though fame has written his name lo every language that has a literature, he can never oatgrow Mrs. Wallace. The golden calf of the family was an orange-ooloied pony, inherited from the forefathers, and held in jcint possession by Mrs. Wallace and her sister, Mrs. Senator Lane. A drive bebind thir ancint was regarded a sacred privilege. Bhe had but one dangerous' habit, that of walking in her sleep. One eye had "gone out' and railed to come back, like the raven that went out the window of the ark (no doubt pony's grandmother remembered the incident), but the one that remained was so penetrating that no maacould make a latch o? bolt that conld batlle It. It was virtue, net the combination 1 j, iu kept the intelligent creature f in robbing the bank. The dainty bask t-trfcon that followed her showed her 0 iti ridiculous contrast, but she n it rebelled at it she was too v to care. When we were r rj o take up the dead march, Ben-Uur W uid marshal us as far as tbe gite to open u nvr wonld do it ia harness), and then he would charge us. as wa dragged paat him behind our measuring worm, with mocking voice and twinUing eves, "not to go too fast," "not to hurry back," nd, "above all things, beware of a runaway," "should be send relief if wc were not in by dark?" etc., in a way that wonld have cost him his life at the heels of any oO:er horse than this somnambulist. lhnally she opened death's door easily, as she did all the others, and went in, but when she turned to come out ah, pony, no lock or knob on tbe inside of thatdwr! and so her place knew her no more. Among the other family P3r traits is one of pony, done in pencil by the hand of lien-uur. In appearance General Wallace is but these ante mortem inquests should draw the line at this point. If tbe subject Is not hansome, it is embarrassing, if not dangerous to say so, and if he reals ia a newspaper that he is, it would turn the head of the noblest Kirrai ot them all. His father. Governor Wallace, was called the handsomest man in Indiana. His mother died in his childhood, but her name lives In Esther, the daughter of Slmonides. We will never have a true biosraphT ot bim. Whoever might undertake it sbo'uld be a Garfield in arms, an Irving in echo's,ship, a Do Jterin In diplomacy, and a Walter Scott In romance, and as no one but himself has such versatility of talents, the biography ought to be an autobiography, as Longfellow's epigram has it. Tbe book "Ben-Hur" in its brief life of Beven years has had an exceptional sale, being now in the two' hundred and twenty-five thou sandth. This is the surface iudex of its future. It must needs always re main a popular book:. It should be read one year for its sacred history, the next for Its tbrilline narratives, the next for its delineation of cba?acter3 ard their eloquence of speech, the next for revealing filial and maternal love, then for its pictures of tragedy, descriptions of sky, sea and land, then for its philosophies, and every year for its marvellous setting forth of the dual character of our Lord tne Christ. This ie the great heart of tte book, and It will beat on in every Christian land, and declare its author a man of unmatched genius, who, under an inspiration beyond our comprehension, has pictured the only- Divine Hero that ever dwelt tmocg men. Emily Meios Rifiey. I Havs Come to This. Portland Oregonlaa itep, Tbe tariff must be reduced, the fr list must be extnded. and Republicans will be obliged io pledge themselves thereto. We would be pleased to know of a man or woman who has never had headache or been subject to constipation. As ihese seem to be universal troubles, a little advice may be in order. Why should persons tram their stomachs with nauseating purative mils, etc which sicken aDd debilitate when such a pleasant and sterling rnuedy as Prickly Ash Bitters will act mildly, and effectively on the liver, kidney, stomaoh and bowels, and at the time tone up and strengthen tbe whole system, causing headache, constipation and all such dltreeeing evils to quickly disappear. A purgative medicine should possess tonic and curative, as well as cathartic properties. This combination of ingredients may be found in Ayer's Pills. Tney strengthen and stimulate the bowels, causing natural action. emorrhaqes. E?5!SÄ Kos or from any cause is speedily con. trolled and stopj ed. Sores, Ulcers, Wounds, Sprains and Bruises. Ii ia cooling, cleansing and Healing io I iV I i moRt efficacious for thisdlBItfdldr ill eaae. Cold in the Hesd. 8. Our "Csvlrrli Cure," is specially prepared to meet so: tons cases. 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Take no other preparation. U it never loli in bulk, or by muure. Sold everywhere, Prleee, SOe, fl, $1.734, Prepared Oalr by POND'S IXTB1CT CQ KEW YOU, AfiO LQXDW. V

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