Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 185a

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

fEntered at the Postoffice at Iodt an pol is M second class matter. TERMS PER TEAK i Ingle eopy (Invariably In Advance. )-..-.Sl OO 'We ask democrats to br in mini and select their crwii state paper when they coins to take subscriptions and make op clubs. Agent staking op club send for anr Information desired. Addess THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, in A. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7. Tactics of the School Book Trust. The moment that the text book law was passed the school book trust and ita paid organs and tools raised a howl of denunciation. The law was impracticable. It was unconstitutional. It waa dangerous. It would establish uniformity in text books. Eighty-five per cent, of the text books in our Bchools are now supplied by Van A.vtwekp, Bragg & Co. It would disorjanize the schools. It would force inferior text books upon them. Nobody would bid under it. It could not be carried out. It imposed no penalti s for its violation. It was etnpid, ambiguous and conflicting in its terms. It would establish a school book monopoly actual fact: that's one of the objections Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. urged against the law. And bo follow ins:. Of course the law is imperfect. The amazing thing is that any law at all was secured in the face of the tremendous f jrht made by the ring. Finding that the bill was certain to be passed, the ring succeeded by strategy in having certain provisions inserted, which, it believed, would render the law inoperative. The failure cf euch a law would be a better thing for the ring than if no law had been passed because it would discourage further efforts in this direction in Indiana or elsewhere. The riDg fancied that it had made the failure of this law reasonably certain, but to make assurance doubly sure, it went to work systematically, t- poison the popular mind a?ain?t it, and to throw all possible obstacles in the way of its execution. The mails were loaded with circulars con talc in;; every six-cies of misrepresentation of the character and purposes of the law. These circulars were sent to book-sellers, teachers, school trustees, fuperintendents-, editors, etc., all over the 'state. Although the law contained an emergency clause, and therefore took effect upon its passage, school officials and bc'k dealers were formally advised that it would not be in force until after the publication of the act, or too late for new books to be introduced during the coming school year. But while all this din and rlatter were beincr raided, the school book rim was d incr very effective underground work. The law male it the duty of the fite superintendent of public instruction t j cz.ll a meeting o'i the board of education f..! a f'.nirht upon its passage to take s;eps lor advertising under its provisions. Supt. La 1'oli et ix forgot to perform this duly for many weeks inut-ed, the meeting; was not finally called v:r.ul The Sentinel bad repeatedly invited attention to the requirements of the law, una then sr late a date was fixed that it seemed very probable that no books could be received for the opening of the schools in the fall, even if a contract should be awarded. Lut the meeting was finally held, and it than and there developed that, in cou tiding the execution of the law to the state board of education, the legislature had done the one thing necessary to insure that it would be carried out in good faith. The state board of education is com rosed of the foremost educators of Indiana, some of them men of national reputation for high scholarship and vitoious ability nearly all of them above the suep-'cioii cf being governed by any ut the loftiest uotives ia the discharge ci their public duties. The ring soon realized that it could not manipulate this board, although, by trickery, it succeeded ir securing the adoption of conditions rt bidding under the law, which, it was "believed, would prevent any bids from It ing tendered. In this matter the ring tio'.i: a mrch upon the board of education. How this was done Tue Sentinel will explain ct another time. The board, howler, advert i d for proposals under the law ; lixtd an early day for the letting, and in other ways showed that it proposed to do its duty honestiy and fearlessly. The chivf object of the trust was to preTent any bids from btiup submitted. This accomplished, the law would be a failure, and could be pointed to by the trust for all time to come as a convincing evidence of the i in potency of a legislative enactment ior th suppression of school book jobbery aud robbery. It was not so difficult a matter to prevent bidding as might be imagined. All the great school book houses in the country were in the trust They wer- leagued together for the practice rj extortion upon the people. They were under a compact not to "cut prices," nor to invade each other's "territory." These roncerns had parceled out the country among themselves like bo many feudal ltrons. Indiana had been assigned to Van Antwerp, Braj & Co., other trust firms being allowed a small percentage of the business here, in order to keep up a pretence of competition. None of the trust houses could put in a bid under the law without violating its compact and forfe;ting a heavy penalty to its confederate fcisis. Besides, a bid which would come within the prices fixed under the statute would be a confession that books could be supplied at such prices, and that the prices heretofore charged in this state, and still rharged in other states, were extortionate. Selling a firet reader in Indiana for 10 cents, a publisher would be estopped from claiming in Ohio that it could not be sold for less thaa 20 cent. It would very soon force down the prices in Ohio and other states nearly, if not quite, to the Indiana itandard,. because the low-priced Indiana books could and would be shipped into the other states and put on sale there at a light advance upon the Indiana schedule. to the trust houses were certain not to bid. The houses outeide the trust were not numerous or strong. Some of them were selling books in other states at trust prices. They were no more anxious to reduce prices than the trust itself. Such M considered the propriety of making a lender were deterred from doing so by JJ rS3U! C li JIXA LUC II US t UJ U1 LaiO ruin if they interfered with the monopoly in Indiana, and by the very hard and extra-legal conditions imposed under the

alleged authority of the state board. Thus it came about that so proposals which could be entertained were received by the board at the time first named for opening tho bida. The trust at onco raised a triumphant shout through its agents, its hired newspapers, its retained school officials. The law was proclaimed, with loud huzzas, a demonstratec failure; the monopoly vaunted itseli as invincible; and there was a general jubilee in the camp of the school book pirates. But the end wa3 not yet. The state board readvertised for proposals with results that brought confusion and dismay into the ranks of the pirates, and drove them to the most desperate expedients in a final effort to save their doomed monopoly They began a new campaign of bribery, falsehood and slander, which will doubtless be continued so long as there is the slightest hope of re-establishing the old order of things in Indiana. Tax Shark Millikan.

The Kokomo Disjxitch, with character- j istic enterprise, has "collected and pub- : lished the details of the career of Mr. Frank M. Millikan, the new secretary of the republican state central committee, who, for some ten years past, has operated as a tax-title shark in Howard county. A tabulated statement, taken from the county records, shows that Millikan has purchased at tax-sales 1S2 town lots and more than fi.000 acres of land in Howard county, paying for this property the sum of ST.L's'iO.öl. The greater part of it has been redeemed at tho extortionate rates allowed by law, so that he has, probably, received in cash from that source more than his entire investment. In addition to this he has obtained title to thirty-nine lots and 1,044 acres of land, which are valued at over $70,000. The amount paid for the laud to which he has title was a little over SI, 000. It would appear, therefore, that this ShyJock has found tax titles as profitable as holding one of the Dudley letters. The character of the dealer in tax titles is well known in Indiana, He is a man who starts out to make money by taking advantage of the misfortunes ot his fellow-men. If he has any native instincts of decency and humanity, he invariably quits the business after his first investment, and always blushes when he remembers that he ever engaged in it. When a man continues in the business he may always be set down as a heartless, rapacious money-grabber a Frankenstein of the business world, in whose scales mercy and compassion bob up to the ceiling like feathers when a dollar is placed on the other end of the balance. Millikan stuck to it. There is a peculiar appropriateness in putting this style of roan in charge of the affairs of a party which represents the organised cormorants of the country a party whose organ is devoted, or can easily be induced to be, to the interests of the coal operators, the school-book trust robbers, the gas monopolists, the tariff ring, and all the others of that goodly gathering of corporate and individual capitalists who are seeking to amass fortunes by the sweat of other people's brows. He is their kind of citizen. He understands and unites in their feelings. When their hearts beat his beats once a month on an average. It was an eminently fit selection. If Mr. Millikan can fry the fat out of republican capitalists, as he has out of the Howard county unfortunates, the republican committee will be able to pay as much for votes as it did in the last campaign. The Railroad to Jerusalem. If there is anything capable of bringing the Christian world to Keskin's idea that the utility of railroads is no compensation for the peace and quiet sacrificed for them, it is the proposition to build a railroad front Jaffa to Jerusalem, with a branch to Bethany. There are some places, some scenes, so knit into the holiest emotions of humanity, that it would bo painful to have them materially altered. There is no American who visits "Mt. Vernon but feels a double pleasure in learning that the place is kept, as nearly as possible, as it was when Washington lived in the old mansion arid walked about the jrround. The attraction of the place is its association with him, and that can be felt thoroughly only when it is seen as he taw it. And as the nation is with Mt. Vernon so every human being with a beart is as to some spot which has been a place of happiness to him, or has for him some hallowed memory of friends of other years. We love such places, and we lovo them as we knew them in the past. The most pleasing feature of the Christian religion is the idea of personal closeness to the Savior of mankind. The individual is triven the privilege of entering into His life, of aiding in His work, of sympathizing with His sufferings and of communing with Him. With this feeling Palestine becomes in fact the holy land. Of itself it is attractive to no one. By its associations it becomes dear to the beart of every believer. Its soil has been made sacred by the pressure of His feet. Within its boundaries the eye of faith has clearer vision and the worshiper comes closer to divinity than in any other land. Such, at least, has been the belief of the devout from traditional times, and a continual stream of pilgrims has borne testimony to the fact. But all these would see Palestine as He saw it Of course this is no', wholly possible. The work of change commenced in the fierce struggles of the Romans and the Jews, and continued in the mighty conflict of crusaders and Saracens, has been steadily advanced by tho band of time until the works of man that stood at the beginning of our era aro now either complete ruins or the merest specters of their former glory. But nature has held her own. The olive trie blooms and the cedar clings to the rocky mountain side as they did eighteen centuries ago. The waves of Galilee roll as they did when He was by them. The sands of the desert burn es they did when He entered it to be tempted. Surely these may be left as they are, so that one who has the opportunity to drop out of the rush and bustle of the modern world may have some place of spiritual associations that is left sacred to nature and to God. . It ii imagined by the capitalists who have projected the road that it will be profitable on account of the tourist passenger traffic, but we question iL The man who would ride into Jerusalem in a passenger coach would be wasting his time going there. He could not appreciate the

place. He could see more sights in London or Paris and with much less personal inconvenience. The people that are capable of appreciating the Holy Land want to see, to feel, to know its plains and mountains and streams. They do not wish to whiz by a line of telegraph poles, or lunch on sandwiches and boiled eggs at a railroad eating house. They can do that anywhere. A man who travels and carries all his native manners and customs with him might as well fctay at home. Most of all, in Palestine should he strive to see the life of those about him, and to see the land as it wad in the days of the Christ. The people of New England are beginning to wake up to the fact that many of their most important industries are being crushed out by the protective taxes on raw materials. Their shipping interests have been destroyed by protection. Their woolen industry is paralyzed by the tariff on wool. And their iron manufacture is prostrated because of the tribute it is com

pelled to pay the ore and coal monopolists of Pennsylvania. Senator Blaih of New Hampshire, an extreme republican, in a recent interview, says: I am earnestly in favor of such charges in the present tariff law as will adruit free of duty into this section of the country iron ore and coal from the provinces. We cannot afiord to see the industries of New England paralyzed for want of cheap raw material. Some classes in New England have grown enormously rich out of the tariff, but other clashes, not less important, have been nearly bankrupted by it. The antiprotection sentiment is grow ing rapidly in that section, and we shall not be surprised if, within live years. New England becomes practically "solid" for a "tariff for revenue only." The other New England senators pud representatives will soon be forced to take the same position that Senator Blair occupies. The leading republican paper of Montana, the Butte Liter Mountain, says: Were it not for the republican tariff, copper would be selling at 8 or 9 cent. And again, speaking of the copper trust: The arrangement is particularly fortunate for Batte, and every miner in this camp rhonid understand.that bat for the protective duty of 3 cents (4 centejper pound the conference could not have maintained the price of lake at 12 cents. And once more, in reply to a democratic paper published in the territory: At whatever price copper is quoted in this country, the Miner may rest assured that the frice is higher than the price in Europe by at east the amount of the tariff on the article. If the taritfis 3 cents, for example, and the price 7 cents in Europe, it will be 10 cents in this country. That is as plain as the eun at noonday. The Inter Mountain seems to be blissfully unconscious of the fact that its fellow-protectionists in othr parts of the country are constantly assuring the people that a tariff does not increase the price of a commodity, but on the contrary reduces it; in other words that a tariff is not a tax. It must be embarrassing to them, to say the least, to have one of their own organs show them up ps the Inter Mountain does, as unconscionable liars. A new legal question of much interest has been raised in Connecticut. A citizen who had sought peace by putting flyscreens in bis windows is 6ued by a neighbor woman on the ground that the flies excluded from his premises invade hers, to her great discomfort and injury. Damaces in the sura of $1.000 are prayed for. We presume it w as intended by providence that every person should endure a certain number of flies, inasmuch as they have been supplied in sufficient quantities to go around; and beyond question no man would be justified in chasing his flies into the premises of his neighbor. If the flies can be identified and shown to have changed locations on account of the screens, damages, "heavy damages, gentlemen," is the proper punishment for the offender. If he has aggravated the offense and probably be has, by singing, "There are no flies on me," while his neighbors were fighting theemigrants, punitory damages should be given. With the uniform good will to himself, which he has always shown, Mcrat Halstead nominates himseli in the Onmner-cial-Gazctie for IT. S. senator from Ohio. If matters were only arranged so that he could cast the votes we do not doubt that be would be unanimously elected. We regret to observe, however, that Mr. H. declares that he "could not, would not, represent corporations." He certainly has never give 1 any cause for such a slander on himself; and if it were true it would ruin him, for a republican who could not and wonld not represent corporations would never have the slightest chance for election. WniLE there is a very general call for trials of nasty divorce cases with closed doors, it is worthy of notice that the San Francisco Examiner holds that private trials which have been held in California courts recently are also objectionable. It claims that they encourage divorce and ead to fraud. There seems to be evil in the divorce business in any form. The Whlprlns-Poat. Philadelphia De.-rd. The Institution of the whipping post, which (till survives in Delaware, did not go oat of fashion in England until the close 01 the last century. May 5, 1713 the corporation of Doncsister directed that a whipping-post be set up for punishing vagrants and sturdy beggars. Three centuries aco this punishment was carried to a cruel extent. Owing to the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII, a large number of persons who depended upon the charity of the eood monks were thrown1 npon the country, and parliament hastened to check the increasing vagrancy, by an act passed in 1531, which declared that every vagrant should be carried to some markettown or other place, and tied naked to the end of a cart, and whipped through the streets till their whole body be bloody. Erly in the last century the price paid for whipping was fourpence, and the constables' account included such items as arresting a distracted woman, watching ber, and the fee for having her whipped. Whipping at the cart's tail, as provided for by the statute of Henry VIII, went out of use in 1596, when the whipping-post was substituted for the earlier method. Tha Infamen School Book Trust. Kokomo Dispatch. A more infamous outrage was neer perpetrated upon Indian than the exactions of the blood-sucking school book monopoly. For years they have compelled popular education to pay enormous tribute to their insatiate irreed. They have held the state helpless in the grasp of their cruel and remorseless tentacles. Varapiredike, they haVe gorged and fattened ort' of the necessities of the people. By a damnable syetem of corruption they have held the state by the throat Public officers have been bought to betray the people, and newspapers have been subsidized to do their bidding. During the pending of the school-book bill before the last legislature, the paid minions of the octopus occupied the lobbies and attempted to buy legislator-. Spite of all , the bill passed both houses and became a law by virtue of limitation without tbe governor's signature. That on act was a monument to Jhe democratic majority aud the ealvatiua of te people. The

most hatenil and baneful monopoly the state had ever known was driven from the neld in otter route and dismay nnd the people were rescued from the virus of its polluted touch. In vain may the Indianapolis Journal and other paid defenders of the octopus inveuh against the wholesome law that crushed the school-book monopoly. Tbe people generally, regardless of politics, sustain it and applaud the legislature that drove the monster from the state. It is gratifying to know that not every republican newspaper in Indiana can be led by the noe by the Indianapolis Journal to the defense of the Van Antwerp, Brairg it Co. robbery. The Evansville Journal, Marion Chronide, Wabash 'lain Oenlrr and many other republican journals decline to defend the monopoly and have come out tlat-footed!y ia behalf of the new school-book law. THE PUBLIC DEBT.

A Recapitulation of the Statement For The Past Month. Washington. Aug. 1. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued to-day: loterest-hear'ni? debt " 1 Bonds at V per cent .... 5 1 00 Bonds nt 4 r ceut 67t,fil,l'iO OO Refunding certificates at 4 per cent- 113,7-1' M Navr en!on trut at 3 por cent Hwvi.'ifrt 0t Pacific railroad bonds at 6 pe cent. G4,ti21,5l7 00 Principal Interest- , Tota S93,3:l,si6 p Debt on which Interest has ceased sdnce maturity Principal- 81,001.253 2G Iutertst. 1 3:1,44 12 2,057,739 93 Ivbt bearintr no interoM Old demand and letj.il tndcr notes.. J 315,737, t."8 -V) Certificate ol ; deposit. 17..'73,iki 00 Gold certificate H8,r41 9 00 Hirer rertincates 253,iS7,r.'3 00 Fractional currency, le $',373,'VM, e-tiiuatcd as lost or destroyed 6,016,t;: 47 Principal Total debt .:. S 7 19.327, te2 97 Principal .. 1.W1.101.HO 23 Interest 5,t77,ii9 :$ Total M 3iJ64iv,777,:.9 91 Public debtLess ca.sh itoms available for reducti .n oi tbe deht : 403,rfi,2A3 71 Less reTT held for redemption ot V. S. note. T . 10fl,OiXi,noo 01 Totals J 5 i3.23n.2Stf 71 Total debt, less available cash items 1,1 J.1,321 .023 20 Net cash in treasury ...-. . fij,837,OW 20 iK ht less cash in 'treaaurv Ant?. I, 3 " 1,077,603,93 95 Debt less cash in treasury July 1, 'S3 , .. 1.07fi,fil,621 43 lDcrea.se of debt durinpthe mootb... 81.017.311 1 Increase of debt sine June 30, is-?. 1,017,311 51 Cash In tre.isnry available or ttit redaction ot the public debt Gold bold for gold er-rliticates actually out.tandin.' 118,541,119 00 Silver beld for .silver certificates actually outstaodinp 239,.S57,12-3 00 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit 17,575,000 00 Cah held lor matured debt and interest unpaid - 7,81,324 94 Fractional currency .. 1,427 77 Total available for reduction of the debt - 1403,2.3,236 71 Reserve fund Held for redemption of TT. $. notes, acts of June 14, '73, and Jul- 12,2 100,000,000 00 Unavailable for reduction of debt: Fractional silver coin...$23,012,S7ti 39 Minor coin . 24 vv,3 '. 25.23S.432 49 Certitkates held as cash 4 .851,214 t Net cash balance on band ........... M..'J'.tO 21 Total cash in the treasury ,as shown by treasurer's general account... 8f3J,723,rJ3 44 PENTECOST ON THE FLOOD. lie Reviews the Johustown Disaster and Argues That "There Is No God." N. Y. World. IIu?h O. Pentecost tad a big conjrre.iration in Belleville-ave. rink, Xewark, yesterday rooming whon he delivered what he termed "Tardy reflections on the Johnstown Disaster." He spoke as follows: If ever there was an event calculated to break down our conventional Telisrious faith in ft prayer-henrine and prayer-answering God, that Coneniatidi flood was uch ßB event. To be sure, it does not prove that there is no God and that prayers are never answered, but it raites a mighty question in th mind as to why, if there is any God. and if lie has any power to do anything in the way of anw erinir rryer, He wus so remarkably deaf and inactive at that time. There is not a human. bein? in existence, perhaps there never was one, even in the most barbarous and inhuruan aces of the world, who, if he knew that p-.ich a dunster was about to happen and could have prevented it, would not have done so. But the praye rhearinR and prayer-enswerin? God of tbe Christian world necessarily must have known that the South Fork dam would burst and kill thousands of persons, because He i said to know everytbinir; and He roust necessarily have Leen able to have prevented the disaster, because it is commonly believed that He can do anything, and yet He psve no warning of what would happen, and He did absolutely nothing to prevent it. He said and did nothing before the horror, and did nothing alterward to mitigate the suffering of aurvivors. The inference from all this is inevitable. No thoroughly honest min J can escape it. Either there is no prayer-hearine or prayer-answerinc God or else He is capable of indiiierence to human sutlerine that is more callous than that which is possible to the most stony-hearted man. Dr. Pentecost said, the dam was poorly built by men, and its breaking was natural. He reasoned that a Merciful Being could not have let men, women and children meet such a sad, horrible fate, and added : This God that people talk about, this being who is supposed to deal so largely in human affairs, is a pure and simple invention. I5ut He is mighty useful to the rich and cruel class. They use him to blame all their wrong-doing upon. He keeps people poor; he kiils people; he does everything but give people employment capital does that. That is the modern gospel. T.he poor Phould be thankful to the rich and to the protective tariff for every th'nsj they enjoy, and blame God for everything they sutler. Hut I am no be.iever in that gospel. He closed by savin cr he will be called an atheist and a blasphemer, but he does not care. "It ie for me," he exclaimed, 'to ppeak the truth as I see it." Give tti Trust a Wide. Ilerth. iCovineton friend. The firm of Van Antwerp, Brace & Co. pre sending out circulars to all school officers, and especially to township "trustees, offering to furnish books at about the same price as those adopted by the state board. They ask you to make a contract with them. We would advise f ou to give these gentlemen a wide berth. The aw of tbe itatc tays what kiud of books are to be ued, and this firm would only get you into trouble. Use the books adopted. The state board of education says they are as good as those now in use. The tate board is made up of the very best educational talent of the state. They are Gov. Hovey, Supt. LaFollett, Prof. James II. Smart of Purdue university, the presidents of the State university at Bloomington and the State normal school at Terre Haute, and the superintendentsof Indianapolis, Evansville and Fort Wayne public schools. They are gentlemen of character, and would not say the books were up to the standard if they were not. It is the duty of every trustee to get as many of the new books into the schools as possible. The trustee that does not, violates the law and his oath, and should not be allowed to hold office. We are glad to say that tbe trustees of Fountain county will do their best to execute tbe law. Tanner JItist Go. 5U LouU Republic The "re-rating' steals in the department of the interior hove already been snfliciently exposed to show the country what sort of an outcome is to be expected if Harrison keeps his campaign pledge not to weigh the claims of the (. A. K. campaign army "with apothecaries' scales." He has violated his pledges to decency. He must violate this pledge to indecency. Tha treasury must not be looted. These substitutes, bounty-jumpers and skulkers must not be maintained in idleneM at the expense of "civilians" who work for tbe Indianapolis "dollar a day." If these fellowa are greater than the preiideut, the president will see it demonstrated that they are not greater than the "civilians" of the country. Tanner must go. Tbe ninty -day fellows must go to work. - Thrown Prom II. a Wagon. CLAY CITY, Xtwr. 1, Special. Joseph Serrln was to-day fatally injured by being thrown from a wagout ' His jaw bone was broken in two placet and both collar bones broken. His tctua raa away and he lost nil control of it.

CBILDUEX'S ROUND TABLE.

A BOY'S ESSAY ON POLITENESS. now to Treat Other ltoys and Girls Child Wisdom Gives the Scheme Away Flossie Improves the OccasionEconomy, Knotty Problems, Etc Tolitencss is a rather difficult thine, especially when you arc making a start. It means having tho sense to sometimes think of others as well as of yourselves, i Many people have not got it. I don't know why, unless it's the start. It is not polite to fight little boys, except they throw stones at you. Then you can run alter them, and when you've caught them juft do a little biS at them that's all. Remember that all little boys are simpletons, or they wouldn't do it. It is not the thing to matfe fun of a Utile chap because he is poorer than you. Let him alone if you don't want to play with him, for he is as ?ood as yoit except the clothes. When you are in school and a boy throws a bit of bread or anything at you over tbe dt-sks it is not polite to put your tongue out at him or to twiddle your fingers in front of your noe. Jut wait till after School, and then wan. him what You'll do next time, or if you find you are bound to hit him, be prettv easy with him. Sora boys are very rude over their meals. Don't keep on eating after you are tightening, and you will be far happier. Never eat quickly or you might get bones in your throat. My father knows of a boy who got killed over his Sunday dinner. The greed- boy was picking a rabbit's head in a hurry, and swallowe-i one jaw of it, and my father says he choked to death there and then. He polite over your meals, then, especially when it's rabbits. Since my father told me that, I have always felt. rather queer over a rabbit dinner.' I don't talk much, and I don't ask for any more. It is not polite to leave victuals on youe plate, especially anything you don't like. Ii you don't like turnips it is better to eat well into your turnips firj-t while you are hungry, and you'll eot the meat and potato eav enoulh after. This is much better than being impolite and leaving a lot of turnip on the edge. It is not iolite to tell tales of boys. When a boy telis a taleaivrays call him "Tell-tale tit, your tongua shall have a little bit." You'll see how red he will turn, and can't look you and the other bovs in the face. Boys should alwnvs be polite to thegir's, however vexing they may be. When anybody is giving anything away, always let the girls have their turn first They like it Girls are not so strong as boys, their hair is long and their faces are prettier; so you should be gentle with tht'm. If a girl scratches your cheek or spits in, your face, don't punch her and don't tell her mother. That would be mean. Just hold her tight by the arms for a minute or two, till she feels you could give it to her if you had a mind to. Then pay to her kindly, "Don't you do it again, for it is wrong," give her a shake or two and let her go. This is far better than being unkind to her, and she will thank you for j-our politeness if she is anything of a girl. Pathetlo Instance of Child TTlsdom. Br)ton Times. A little boy, not yet four years old, ha3 a father who sometimes drinks too freely and a mother who is often not overwise in discussing her atlairs with her friends or neighbors. One night the father came home in worse condition than usual, and everything not running to 6iiit his rather erratic ideas of harmony, he became tomewhat violent, and, in trying to adequately express his feelings, considerably disar ranged the furniture,' among other things smashing the glass in a ventilator over the door. Alter the exeitementt had subsided, the little fellow, whose thoughts had evident ly been busy, glanced up at bis mother with an earnest look in his frank blue eyes, and in a tone of advice and conviction, e aid : "I wouldn't say anything about that, mamma, if I wa? you.' Defensive Theology. f Detroit Tribune. Bennie is the bright five-year-old son of the editor of the Michigan Catholic. The other day he came home from a protracted tricycle ride. "i'ennie," said his father, "didn't your mother tell you not to go so far away from the house?' "Y-e-s, papa, but the devil took my breath awav and wouldn't let me remember." "That's the old story about the devil," paid Mr. Hughes, trying to look stern. "I'm afraid I shall have to spank that devil out of you." t "Oh, the devil flew, out of me just as I entered the house," protested Bennie. "He said, 'Bennie, you're in for a spanking, and a spanking hairts, and I guess you'd better take it yourself.' " Economy. The World. My little four-v ear -old brother was led into the room to see a new sister. He stood for a moment in deep thought, and then asked: "Mamma, did baby turn from heaven?" "Yes." "Did I turn from heaven?" "Yes, dear." "Iid 'oo turn from heaven?" "Why, yes." "Is we all doing back to heaven?" "I hope so." "Den I'd de?s as leave have stayed dare and eaved tar fare." Conclusive Arguments. "Mamma, can I go to Asbury Park with sister?" asked a little tive-year-old girl a few days ago. "I think not," replied her mamma. "Your piter has to go there for her health; Vsid8, it is quite expensive." "Well," said the little five-year-old, "I ought to go there for my health, too. I had a dretie toothache one time and fcister never had that. And I do think it is a pity if there isn't 'cough money in papa's pocket-book des to pay for my little bit of'epenses!" She went. riossle Improves tbe Occasion. Bingbamton Repnbllcan. Flossie had been eating intemperately of watermelon. "Mamma," ßhe said, pressing her hands wearily upon her 6tomach, "my sash is just like a window Bash, isn't it?" "In what way, dear ?" asked the mother, smilingly. "Because it's around the pains," she replied, demurely. Pfnlm'um. Boston Traveller.) A small hoy belonging to a Boston family was the proud owDer of a bright red balloon, with which he never seemed to tire. One day he lost bis bold of tho string and away" it went. He watched it for a loug time and then went into the house and remarked: "My balloon has pone up to the angels, and it will be just like 'em to keep it." .Tha Whole Scheme Given Away. Kingston Journal. A woman here feel very sore over tbe latest escapade of her eeven-year-old incorrigible. There were some visitors invited to tea one evenin recently, and during the course of tha meal John

Henry Augustus remarked, with a chuckle: "Mother's got all her best things on the table to-night: ain't j-ou, ma?" The mortified mother gave the youngster a kick under the table, when he added, innocently: "You needn't kick me under the table, now, 'cause I didn't tell a word about borrowing the napkins." Optiu.tstn. BInghamton Republican. Bobby "Pa, I like to saw wood." Father "Do you?'' Bobby "Yes, it's fun to think while I'm sawing it that when 1 get it all sawed I can etop." , Chaff of the Kl.lt. A little girl who had the scarlet fever was told thnt the disease would have to peel off". "But if 1 do peel olf," she said, "what will bold me together!1" A little girl in Piedmont. W. Va,, who was given a drink of tizzing mineral water the other day. took a sup of it and then exclaimed: "It tastes like your foot's asleep!" Mother (to her little son) "Johnnie, go to the butcher's and see if he has pigs' feet." Johnnie (on his return) "Mamma, he had big boots on and I couldn't see his feet" Jenny (who has just been questioned about her geography before going to school) "Did (Jod make the ocean?'' "Certainly; you know that very well." 'Well, it must Lave rained awful hard the day before." L ir. At tlw girls' Sunday school. Teacher "There are just a few moments now before school closes. Would a ny of yon like to ask a question?" Immature woman of seven "Ye, tn'm, I should. When Adam fell did F.ve giggle behind her handkerchief ?" London io cid;. Fannie wanted to arrange the books in the book-case, but, as usual, on grew tired of it. "I was afraid, my dear, you would ltow tired of it and leave the books for me to put back," said her mamma. "Yes," ssid her little sister, "Fannie is a very freckle-minded child." Youth' Companion. The Rev.Mr.Prirurose ""You are the strangest little boy I ever saw. While other children of your age are liht-heartfd aud thoughtless you are always sad." Little Johnnie "That's 'cause the other fellers arvt got a crss-eyed mother who can see when you make facts behind her back." Epoch. Little Johnny approached his mother as she was laying away a pan of fresh-laid doughnut. "Mother, I say, mother '." "What is it. nty wn?" "Why don't you talk some, mother?"' What do you want me to say, Johunie?" "Well, you might gay 'Johnnie, don't you want a doughnut?' "Philadc phia I'rete. A little girl who accompanied her mother into town the other day was very much interested in the speed with which 6he was traveling toward the city, and on leaving the train at the station and rasinir by the treat putRng

locomotive, the little one turned to her mother aud said : "ee, mamma, it's all out of breath." Eoston Bt' I'jeL Neighbor lloy "M;i said she'd lick me if I didn't ask your forgiveness. She's watching me from the window, eo out with it or I'll thump you w hen I catch yon alone." Our Boy "Well, I'll forgive you till my big brother gets home, and then if you know when you're well olf you'll stay mighty elo?e to your own house." Omaha W'orlJ-lferaJd. A little girl in riainfield, X. J., whose parents attend the Crescent-ave. presbyterian church, was very thoughtful on the way home from morning service on a recent Sunday. The last hymn had been "Even Me, Even Me." Finally she asked her mother, who was holding her hand: "Mamma, did Adam write that hymn?" "Why, no, my child," said her mamma; "why do you ask that?'' "Because it aays 'Eve and Me."' Troy Timet. .KNOTTY PROBLEMS, Our readers ars Invit sd to furnish origin1! enigmas, charades, riddles, rebuses, an 1 ottur "Knotty Problems," addressing all communications relative to this department to C IL Cha lbourn, Lewiston, Me. Xo. 283? A Doubtful Character. Though I bare neither sund nor sen;e, Yet oa rue speakers seize To cle thf ir words of elo)unce And end their moving plea. With taw there often coms delay, Of which an uot the cause; And yet In my peculiar way I oit d"lay the laws. Procrastination bears a name One would not care to own; Ferhape to me you'll give the same TV lien all tuy deeds are Known; For I have taken up the trade Of this long-windei cheat; . Will stval your time, se-? you delayed, When e're we chance to meet. E'en from the day when I wa born, It bai been t:ry pet rare To point a tO'iral and u'lorn Tbe tale of otbr d..ys. Mske bst, they hv, but not too fast. IJ.iwever good your cause; You'll surely meut wiih in;- at last; My presence fives you pauv. 1". S. WarjcF-R. No. 2833-Cnrtallnient. Graceful and stately tbe whole in her pride Floats on the water her netlins heMd, Out of ibelr element, like ruany another, Awkward and clumsy are nestlings and mother. Graceful and swift as the fl ight of a bird, Pashes the Lsr. ll's the king oi tbe herd. But the banter has smitten the pride of the plain, And spite of bis beauty and strtcgih b 1 slain. STrasza. No. 2834 The Purzle of the Grocer's Boy. A grocer's watron broke down while being driven acrow a r.srrriw stream. The driver, finding it impossible to either advance or recede, cast about for a means ot" unloading the wnt;on. He found that he could reach on bank of tiie stream by jumping upon a small reck which stood about half war bewccn the wn-on and ttoe shore and which could hi nel as a step 'in(.'-stoD. From ht re h-. could stp to a landing place ou the shore. The load consisted of a bag of potatoes, a bac of tomatoes, some eprs and some strawberries. Now, tbe wagon, th stone in the stream and the landing place itself were so narrow that no two of the packaes could be placed side by side; it wan necesary to place theiu one upon the ether. But if the potatoes had ben placed on either side of the other articles they would have rrushed them ; the totnatoe could be placed npon the potatoes, hut not on the e-gs orstrawberrie; tho Ctors couM bj placed on either the potatoe or tomatoes, but not upon tne strawberries, whilu the strawbe.ries were litrht enough to be placed on any of the articles. In the waeon they were nrangd in tbe following order, beginnin? at the bottom : 1, potatoes; 2, tomr.toe; 3,"eg!:; 4, strawberries. The grocer's boy could i't only one of the packages at a time; bow did he id an ace to transfer them to the landing-place in the Fame order as thev wf-re In the wagon? J. H. Fkzakpie. Nn, 283. Transpositions. A fierce and avape animal am I ; No bnman but who would tuy presence fly. Transpose, end I'm a tame domestic bird 'lis curious bow one can change a word! Acain iransposo, and make of me a tide, A flood of water, copious and wt.ie. A L. "o. 58.17 Charade. A DtVIPED STTLABLE. To Count Le.s. I hid a twin brother, and his name was rul. And be was ptfesed of unlimited "gall ;" In !Vl, It was someihin;: stupendously greet. And if you'll allow me I'll honestly state A cbaptcrof hist rv relating t me Which ought W rtfer unto Paul, do yon see? But his rierva vu colossal, in fac t, it was a freak. For tbo t holt ol a turuace was cooU-d by bis cheek. One night Paul took sick, and the doctor frt came, With bis physic and dyuain'te pills of great fame. While I in the parlor was taking my ease. 7rothe m .ment Paul couched, and, cf course, I did sneeze. When in rushed the doctor, the great Dr. Quack. In atiout a hslf seoond I lay on my hack. And he pulled out a lancet a sword 1 tx-lieve Near y bled mc to death, while Faul laughed in his sleeve. I couldn't Iwar Paul after thst, so I died. A nd tbey buried poor Paul in my place, by the side Of the great Dr. ijnack, who had really lost all In trying to find out if I wasn't Pa jl. And now I a Ii trying! find out the same, Fr lately there catue a youn iniss with a rlalra. Who says thai I promised to wed her last fall. And I can't, tor the life of me, prove that it was Tsui. (l'ARR4VT. 3No. 2837 Double Acrostic. KIVE-LETTr.R WORDS. 1. A narrow passage through a mountain. 2. A Greek letter. 3. To propel. 4. Courage. R. Servilely Imitativ.. . A certain human race. 7. T cur. & The eil y principle of oils and fats. 9. (ladlv. Pri'ualiand finals give the name of a celebrated author. A. B. Gmu. . 2838 Anagram. "Each critic'i rt" should bo employed In ways discreet and wise. To teach young writers to avoid AH idiosyncrasies; To shun "peculiar" forms of aneech, And words thst have no weight. To use a t-tyle within thoir reach, Türe and appropriate. f - - fXlTSOSUK. - . 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?.v Kite. hk ken-hearted. B S A AST V P I A I N 1 N O T S I O T S a ATT O A T R U E T F. H A i; S B A T T R K LAC M I L I. 2.",l! isl Dor-sum AT DEER PARK. Some of the Me.-lttations of a Good and Piu Man. IN. Y. Sun.) "hen Baby M,Kee is pnt to rest, and the lion. reni;iniiin Harrison tret? time to enioka his go-to-l-ed cigar, what curious thoughts rorul jump up in him and chirp louder that the Deer i'crk crickets. "I hnve Maine where he woti'd like to fcavs me. Confound tbe man, I wUb he would quiet without being so snriciontly qu'et. It looks bad for ".:;. Humph:" "Young Uoogevtlt is a fresh sort of chap. I can't get it out of the young fellow's noddle that I realiy care about civil service reform. He's a bad man to bounce, but great Wanam nicer, does he want to bounce roel" "Those southern n'trroes ahem! colored republicans :ire disagreeable people. Why can't they be Katisfied to let us have the votes, and let the Harrison white republicans have the olhVes?" 'Iarn the press! I've given oftice to mora editors thiin aiiy other preside-nt, and yet tha editors kick a.rni"st putting Miller intthe en preme court. I must ask Wanatnaker to get tbe society of Christian endeavor to pray tor tha editors." "Dear John! What a comfort be is! Only f wish he wouldn t advertise himself quite so much. After all, he's only one of my clerks. "I wish I could get rid of Rusk. He's to common. Why, it was positively vulvar, his riding on a bay-cart horse. Rusk wears a flannel shirt, and doesn't seem to care & copper foi Indianapolis io&s." "Drat those bullfrogs! They yell ont all night long: 'Not another term, not another term!'" "How cold it i. There'll be an extra session cf congress when I call for one." "When I was a senator I was arin tbe president. Now I am president I'm ain the senators." "Well, if I don't get another term, I've given ray relations a soft thing. Bah! This cigar has a vile taste." "If Tanner had been killed in the war, what a hero he would have been. Between the G. A. Ii. and the rest of the country, it's a tough thing being president. Still, I would take tha job azain if I could get it." "What fan it would be fo be president if there wasn't any congress or any newsnapers.' "I wonder if Tom I'latt is eoing to get oc bis ear. If he does I may take a vacation ia Alaska." "I wonder if the new st.ites will like me. "I wonder what my policy is." "I'm a good insn anyway." "If I wasn't, I'd smoke another cigsr. I'd like to. but it mightn't be healthy. Besides, Baby McKee'll be np bright and early. Welt, I'll retire, as Elijah says." flints on Kating. Pittshurz Gazette. Following are a few pointers that are well worth memorizing: Don't eat pork. When it is absolate'y nnavoidable to do so, it ehonld be rendered harmless by bein:j eipocd to strong beat iong. enough to be converted into a decided jrar color, even to its innermost part. Don't örink green tea, aud nse black tea moderii'ely. Don't allow your servants to put meat and vegetables into the same compartments of tha refrigerator. Don't cat ranch meat, and increase its quantity oniy gradually when recovering from a fever. Don't take animal food more than tTrics daily. Don't average more than twenty-fotir ounces of fluids daily. Don't let your entire food exceed thirry-fonr ouuees in twenty. four hours. Don't infer that cbewing tobacco is the most injurious method of using the weed; the contrary is true. Don't fmoke immediately after meals. Don't forget that healthy persons generally Iom; weight in winter and gain in summer. Don't believe that eating, fat will make yon fat: quite the contrary holds true. Don't eat gamey meats; remember that "gamey" is the hyper rtCned word for rotU-a. "Don't pour a mouthiul of coffee into an empty stomach, even if yon must tear a button from your coat and swallow it before," says an Arabic proverb. This applies to tea as well. Vinegar and the Law. Chicago Titu. The secretary of the Indiana state board of health says that the spurious vinegar which be has examined would destroy the stomach of an ostrich if used liberally. The law in Indiana is not to blame for this. Indiana, so far as law-making is concerned, has attempted to prevent these a Alterations. An act of the last legislature prohibit the manufacture or sale of any vinegar not the product of pure apples. It must not h ive any artificial coloring, and must have an acidity equivalent to the presence of not less than 4 per cent, of weight of absolute acetic acid. lit Indiana, ns in Illinois, the trouble is that there is no regxrd for the law. We may make laws from now until doomsday and if tbe people do not respect them, or if those sworn an' pledged to their enforcement do not compel the rn ople to respect them, they will amount to nothing. No Soldiers X-et Apply. . To THE EniTon Last summer wir congressman, Mr. Chca lie, was constantly talking about the republican love for the soldiers. It looks now 'er the campaign has cloe"i and the new aömin'slration in power that th privat soldier has not been considered as much as he was by Cleveland and the oemecrats. Party workers end heelers hsve leen rewarded, but no sol lit-r has received any important of.ice unless he bad Iwen a Confederate officer and turned republican. The medical boards are all composed of partisan republicans, with but few exceptions. Sold.ers, we must think a got d deal before we rot the republican ticket again. Frankfort, July 51. A Fkivate Sold IF. R. A Uramsiie sneee. I Time. Low Comedian "Ah, old friend, hare j-oij seeD De IiAnter in bis new play?" Comic Villain "No, by all things malt. 1 have not. Do the gods look kindly on him?' Low Comedian "Well, be doesn't bava much to do in the first or second act; it'a in tha third where he wins his laurels and the publii heart.' Comic Villain "Ah, some happy rtroka f genius." - low Comedian (with a touch of nature) J "Yes, he don't come on at a'l." Hut Oa Thing Needful. (Time.! George "Yes, Henry, I've ent a verrba l cold. However, about twenty of my near and dear friends have prescribed for me, and I'm going to try every one of the remedies. Don't you think you could add something to tha list?" Henry "Well, yes. You'll find a Tery reliable undertaker round the corner." Not a Mntul Ueoefit. I ruck. Lmeline "Alfred, I am very fond f yon. bnt 1 doubt if I 1ot you enough to bt yonr wife.' i If red "Emelfne, give me, oh, give me tha benefit of the donht!'' Kmeline "I will, Alfred. Henceforth, al! ia over Ulvreta us."