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A Brilliant Banquet at Philadelphia. Mr. Cleveland Makes aMasterly Speech. He Discusses the Principles of True Democracy And Makes a Marked Impression on the Audience. The Banqueters Loudly Cheer tho L--Fresident. riiii.Di:i.rin., Jan. S. The Academy cf Music wad bright tonight with many lights and merry with the eounl nnd ecene of banqueting, upon the occasion of the annual dinner of the Young Men's democrat io association of this city. The speaking was begun late by Samuel C. Thompson, president of the association. He presided and at tbe close of his address of welcome he pave the toast: "To the Memory of Jackson." It was drank standing and in silence. The sentiment was: "The Principles of True Democracy They Are Enduring, Because They Are Right, and Invincible, Because They Are Just." It had been assigned to ex-President Cleveland, w ho was presented by the president of the banquet with these words : It is proper that we should have with us the great leader ex-President Cleveland who led the party triumphantly to success; who, fr:m defeat. evolved a great victory; who, io administration, knew tio motive save that which was based upon richt; who, in guiding the ship of state, had but one compan, and that the people's interest"; who, with threat couraee, threw down the suantlet of tan. J reform and, like his crand prototype, Jackaon, practically deciared: "By the eternal, its principle wts rignt and should pre Tail." Mr. Cleveland arose amid much cheering, and in response spoke as follows: Mr. Pkeside.m and Centlkmkn Asl rise to respoud to the sentiment which has been assigned to me I cannot avoid the impression made upon my mind by the announcement of the words "Tru Democracy." I believe them to mean a sober conviction or conclusion touching political topics, which, formulated into a political belief or creed, inspires a patriotic perforniitr.ee of the duties of citizenship. I am gut. tied that the principles of the belief or creed are such that underlie our free institutions and that they may be urged upon" our fellow-countrymen, because in their purity and integrity they accord witn the attachment of our people for their Roveruuaent and their country. A creed based upon such principles is by no means discredited because illusions and perversions temporarily prevent their popular acceptance any more man it can be irretrievably shipwrecked by mistaken made in its name or by its prostitution to ignoble purposes. When illuion are dispelled, when misconceptions are rectified, and when those who Kuide are consecrate! to truth an 1 duty, tbe ark of the people's safety will still be discerned in the keeping of those who hold fast to the principles of true democracy. These principles are not uncertain nor doubtful. The illustrious founder of our party has plainly announced them. They have betn reasserted and followed by a long line of great political leaders and they are quite familiar. They comprise: Ejual and eiact justice to all men; peace, commerce and honest friendship with all unions entangling alliance with none; the support of the state governments in all their rights; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor; a jealous care of the right of election by tbe people; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority; the supremacy of the ctvil over the military authority; economy in the public expense; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; the encouragement of agricultnre. and commerce ns its handmaid, and freedom of religion, freedom of the press and freedom of the peron. The great president and intrepid democratic leader whom we epecially honor tonight, who never relaxed his strict adherence to the democratic faith, nor faltered in his defense of the nzlita of the. people against all comers, found his inspiration and guidance in these principles. On entering upon the presidency he declared his loyalty to them; io his long and useful incumbency of that great t-rlice he glorioumv ulustruted their value and sufficiency, and hi obedience to the doctrines of true democracy at ail times during his public career permitted him, on his retirement, to find satisfaction id the declaration : "At the moment when I surrender my last public trust. I leave this great people prosperous and happy and in the fu l enjoyment ot liberty and peace, and honored and respected by every nation of the world." Parties Lave come and parties have gone. Put there hm never been a time from Jc Person's day to the present hour, when our party did not exist, active and agrreaive, and pref mred for heroic conflict. Not all who have ollowed the banner have been able by a long train f close reasoning to demonstrate, as an abstraction, why democratic principles are best suited to their wants and the country's good; bat they have known and felt that as their government was established for the people, the principles and the men nearest to the people and standing for them, could be the safest trusted. Jackson has been in their eyes the incarnation of the things which Je:!eraon declared. If they did not understand all that Jetierson wrote, they saw and knew what Jackson did. Those who .insisted cpon voting for Jackson after his death felt nre that whether their candidate was alive or dead they were voting the ticket of true democracy. The tevoted political adherent of Jackson, who after his death became involved in a dispu'e as to whether his hero had gone to heaven or not, was prompted by democratic instinct when he disposed of the quest. on by declaring, "I tell you, sir, that if Andrew Jackson has made op his mind to go to heaven you may depend upon it he's there." The single democratic voter in more than one town, who year after year depo ited his singledemocraticballot nn'iismayed by the number of his misguided opponents, thus discharged his political duty with the utmost pride and satisfaction to his Jacksonian democracy. Democratic steadfastness and enthusiasm and the satisfaction arising from oar party history and traditions, certainly ought not to be discouraged. Put it is hardly safe for us because we profess the true faith, and can boast of distinguished political anoestry, to rely upon these things as guarantees of our present usefulness as a party organization, or to retard their gloritication as surely making the way eusy to the accompiishmenf of our political mission. The democratic party, by an iutiiiient stu y of pre-eDt conditions, must be prepared to meet all the wants of the people as they arie, and to furnish a remedy for every threatening evil. We may well te proud of our party membership; but we cannot escape the duty which such membership imposes upon as, to urge constantly upon our fellow-citizens of this day and generation, the sufficiency of the principles of trne democracy for the protection of their rights and the promotion ot their welfare and happ'ness, in all their present diverse conditions and surroundiugs. There should of course be no suggestion that a departure from the time honored principles of our party is necessary to the attainment of these objects. On the contrary we should eonUntly congratulate ourselves that our party creed is broad enough to meet any emergency that can arise io tbe life of a free nation. Thus when we see the functions of govern meat used to ecriob favored few at the ex

pense of many and see also its inevitable result in the pinching privation of the poor and the profuse extravagance of the rich; and when we e in operation an unjust tariff which bani.ues from many humble homes the comforts of life in order that in the palaces of wealth, Inxury may abound, we turn to our creed and find that it enjoins "equal and exact justice to all men." 1 hen if we are well grounded in our political faith, we will not be deceived nor will we permit others to be deceived, by any plausible prettxt or smooth sophistry excusing the situation. For our answer to them all, we will point to the words which condemn such inequality and injustice, as we prepare for the encounter with wrong, armed with the weapons of the democracy. When we see our farmers in distress and know that they nre not paying the penalty of slothfulness and mismanagement; when we see their long hours of toil so poorly requited that the money-lender eats out their substance, while for every thing they Deed they pay a tribute to the favorites of governmental care, we know that all this is far removed from the "encouragement of agriculture" which our creed commands. We will not violate our political duty by foreettii'g how well entitled our farmers are to our best etlorts for their fPhtoration to the independence of a former time and to the rewards of better days. When we aee the extravagance of puhlio expenditure fast reaching the point of reckless waste, and the undeserved distribution of public money debauching its recipients, and by pernicious examp e threatening the destruction of the love of frugality among our people, we will remember that "eoonomy in the public expense' is an important article in the true democratic faith. When we see our political adversaries lent upon the passage of the federal law, with the sesrceiyleiiied purpose of perpetuaing partisan supremacy, whioh invades the states v ith election machinery des gnei to promote federal interference with the rights of the people in the localities concerued, discrediting their honesty aud fairness, and justly arousing their jealousy of centralized power, we will stubbornly resist such a daugcrous and revolutionary scheme, in obedience to our pledge for "the support of the State improvements ia all their rights." I'nJer anti-democratic encouragement we have seen a constantly increasing selfishness attach to our political affairs. A departure from the sound and safe theory that the people should support the government for the sake of the benefits resulting to all, has bred a sentiment manifesting itself with astounding boldness, that the government may be enlisted iu the furtherance and advantage of private interests, through their willing agents in puhlio place, t-ucli an abandonment of the idea of patriotic political aotion on the part of these interests has naturally led to an estimate of the people's franchise so degrading that it has been openly and pa'pably debauched tor the promotion of selfihh fcliemes. Money is invested in the purchase of votes with the deliberate calculation that it will yield a pro.itable return in results advantageous to the investor. Another crime akin to this, in motive and design, is the intimidation by employers of the voters dependent upon them for work and brend. Nothing could be more hateful to true and genuine democracy than such otlenses against our free institutions. In several of the states tbe honest sentiment of the party has asserted itself in tbesupport of every plan proposed for the rectiiicaiiou of this terrible wrong. To fail in such support would be to violate that principle ic the creed of true democracy which commands "a jealous care of the right of election by the people," for certainly no one can cUiru that nil rates purchased, or cast under the stress of threat and intimidation, represent the right of election by the people. Since a free and unpolluted ballot must be conceded as absolutely essential to the maintenance of our free institutions, I may perhaps be permitted to express the hope that the state of Pennsylvania will not long remain behind her sister states in adopting an elective plan to protect her people's sutlrnge. In any event the democracy of the state can find no justification in party principle, nor in party traditions, nor in a just apprehension of democratic duty, for a failure earnestly to support and advocate ballot reform. 1 have thus far attempted to state some of the principles of true democracy, and their application to present conditions. Their enduring character and their constant influence upon those ho prfess our faith have also been suggested. If I were no.v asked why they have so endured and why they have been invincible, I should reply in the words of the sentiment to which I respond: "They are enduring because they are right, and invincible because they are just." I believe that among oar people the ideas which endure and which inspire warm attachment and devotion, are those having some elements which appeal to the moral seuse. When men are satisLed that a principle is morally right they becomi its adherents for all time. There is sometimes a discouraging distance between what our fellow countrymen believe and what they do in such a case; hut their action in accordance, with their belief may always bo confidently expected in cood time. A government for the people and ly the people is everlastingly right. As surely as this is true so surely it is true that party principles which advocate the absolute equality of American manhood, and an equal participation by all the people in the management of their government, and in the benefit aud protection which it a; ords are also right, lie is common ground where the best educated thought and reason may meet the most impulsive and instinctive Americanism. It is right that every man iliould enjoy the result of his labor to the fullest extent consistent with his membership in civilized community. It is right that our government should be but the instrument of the people's wiil, and that its cost should be limited within the lines of strict economy. It is right that the influence of the government should be known in every humble home as the guardian of frugal comfort and content, and a defense against unjust exactions, and the unearned tribute persistently coveted by the selfish and designing. It is right that efficiency and honesty in public service should not be sacrificed to partisan greed; acd it is right that the sufhage of our people should be pure and free. 'lbe belief in these propositions, as moral truths, in i nearly universal among our countrymen. We are mistaken if we suppose the time is distant when the clou is of selfishness aud perversion -r ill be dispelled and their conscientious belief wiil become the chief motive force in political action of the people." I understand all these truths to be included in the principles of true democracy. If we Lave not at all times trusted as implicitly as we ought, to the love our people have for the right in political action, or if we have not always relied sufficiently upon the sturdy advocacy of the best things which belong to our party faith, these have been temporary aberrations which have furnished their inevitable warning. We are permitted to contemplate tonight the latest demonstration of the people's appreciation of the right, aud of the acceptance they accord to denif cratic doctrine when honestly presented. In the campaign which has just closed with such glorious results, while party managers were anticipating the issue in the light of the continued il.usion of the people, the people themselves, and for themselves, were considering the question of right and justice. They h.ve rpoken and the democracy of the land rejoice. In the signs of the times, and in their late state campaign, the democracy of Pennsylvania must find hopu aud inspiration. Nowhere has the sensitiveness of the people on questions involving right and wrong been better illustrated than here. At the head of your state government there will soon stand a disciple of true democracy, elected by voters who wou.d have the right, and not the wrong, when their consciences were touched. Though thers have existed here conditions ami influences not altogether favorable to an uuselfish apprehension of the moral attributes of politicid doctrine, I believe that if these features of the principles of true democracy are persistently advocated, tbe time wiil speedily come when, as in a day, tbe patriotic hearts of the people of your great commonwealth will be stirred to the support of our cause. It remains to say that In the midst of oar re joioing and in the time of party hope aud expectation, we should remember that the way of right and justice should be followed at a matter of duty and regardless of immediate success. Above all things let us not for a moment forget that grave responsibilities await the part which the people trust; and let us look for guidance to tne principles ot true democracy which "are enduring because they are right, aod invincible because they are just."

oSUNDAY THOUGHTS!

HONKMORALS rf" MANNERS BY A CLEROTMA.X The new year brings in with it what the French call burning questions. This is aptly called the epoch of transitions. Father Time, up there in the belfry, has heard and heeded Tennyson's invitation to "King out the old, ring in the new." Throughout Christendom the spirit of change is abroad. Doubt, dissatisfaction, criticism prevail. Involution is in the air. The existing situation in church and state is impeached. Formerly it was the abuses that provoked attack. Today it is the institutions pir se. In social life a new theory, socialism, which has aa many meanings as it has advocates, who, however, all agree in demanding revolution, U making almost as rapid progress in America ad it is in Germany. In education there is equal unrest. Time honored canons are declared to be outgrown. The age of tutelage is past we are told. The world is twenty-ono years of age. Education should do as Pestalozzi, the great Swiss innovator, demanded, not make men, but show them how to make themselves. The world, it is contended, means development, not accumulation. And the old "prominence" of Greek and Latin is antiquated, so we are assured. "Mrs. Partington," said a friend, "was going to nend her daughter to the cemetery to learn the dead languages." "Well, that is the place for Pin h a 6tudy, according to the new school. The sciences and the modern languages should replace the dead languages in the curriculum of today. When it comes to theology there is a confusion of tongues which discounts Babel. To borrow a sentence from a thoughtful German scholar, who in photographing Germany also pictures the United States: "Avowed godlessness has affected large masses of people, the upper as well as the lower, and tho lower as well as the upper classes. Myriads live a life without God, without a thought of eternitv a life wholly sunk in the present. 'The lack of authority, so characteristic of our day, is manifested in a religious point of view by rejecting the very authority of God. Connected with this is the separation of multitudes from the churcn, not, however, without fault on the part of the church itself. Church customs and affairs no longer affect the mind as powerfully as formerly. From their hearts and the home the word of God has disappeared. And where is compensation sought, for what has been lost? Some seek it in sesthelicism; others in natural science, whose half-understood or misunderstood results are made a gospel (of dirt, as Carlyle paid) ; others in politics and in national affairs, while many, aa if shipwrecked, flee to the tand banks of pessimism." That is one side of the religious outlook. On the other hand we find large and elegant church edifices adorning tho costly corner lots ot all our cities. In riding through tho country we are seldom out of sight of the meetiug-house moreover the magnitude of the subsidiary activities of religion is surprising. More than two hundred millions of copies of religious periodicals are published annually in this country, while $.'1,000,000 are spent everv year in the gratuitous distribution of religious literature. The secular press, too, has made itself a sounding-board to echo the voice of leading preachers far and wide. We have hundreds of theological schools. Most of our institutions of higher education were founded and are sustained by the religious public. The cause of foreign missions collects $5,000,000 annually, while for home missions wo spend every year more than $15,000,000. Another class of figures testify justns significantly. In the decado from 1870 to 1S0, the increase in population was 31 per cent. At the same time the increase among the baptists, for instance, was ti-'J percent., and among the episcopalians 62 per cent. twice as rapid as tho increase in population. Most hopeful of all. religion is fast coming down out of the clouds to dwell, as Christ did, among men. The Christian public is more and more recognizing the fact that ethical and humanitarian problems belong to Christianity, and therefore, when religion calls for men and money to do works of charity, the response is increasingly hasty. The Fpintle of James, which Luther discredited, is coming more and more into fashion the gospel of works as the proof of faith. What we need is the old truth in a new application, Preachers and churches must adjust themselves' to this age, and not borrow the law of the sixteenth century. Then let the fermentation go on. Out of it shall come the bread o! life and the w ine of the spirit. With regard to Germany, who can wonder at the increase there of socialism in view of facts like these : In Saxony, 73.51 per cent, of the population have an income of less than $200 a year; and of this number 45.40 per cent, are wretchedly poor, having an income of I than $12" per annum. The middle class embraces 2:'.47. Fven these have less than $820 a year. Only 0.00 possess over $2,400 per annum. Compare with these German statistics the figures which Gen. Booth gives in his book, 'In Darkest England," concerning the population of the eastern district of Ixmdon. It numbers 900,000; of whom 17,000 are inmates of work-houses or asylums; 11,000 are criminals and 74,000 are not ablo to support themselves more than half of the time. Add to these 12.,000 whose income is so small as to leae them tnist-rahlir nnnr. Thn nut. of a nnnnlntirm J of ilOO.OOO there are 331,000 who are pau- ! pers or on the verge of pauperism more ' than one-third of tho whole district. Of I course, the entire city does not present so I great a proportion of degradation. But out of the 4,000,000 in Indon there are 1 1)93,000 of the pauper or miserably poor I class. Thifl, it has been remarked, is what the Christian civilization of 1,000 years can show. If we, in America, are not so poorly olF, it perhaps, because wc haven't been so long at it. Give us time and we mar not be far behind. Indeed, already : in New York City, there are districts where the destitution and wickedness surpass the east-end of London. In New "York City, 270,000 persons live on one square mile of land, piled on top of each other seven stories high, crowded into dark, damp, filtbjr rooms, three to ten ia

a room, festering w ith physical and moral disease the despair alike of philanthropy and of government. Iu that best of all his books, according to an esteemed critic, "A Yankee in King Arthur's Court," Mark Twain gives a vivid picture of the feasting in tho castle of a princess, and relates how, in the midst of the banquet, from under the floor came an awful groan of agony which was fitted to chill the blood in a man's veins, but which the guests and the princess herself did not heed. The Yankee iound that the groans came from a poor wretch who was being tortured to death in the under room. He found that there were twenty or thirty others in the different dungeons of the castle being slowly starved, killed with damp or tortured, but the happy lords and ladies above stairs did not lose a wink of sleep, nor fail of any wine cup, nor lose a measure in the merry dance on that account. The satire is sharp. How could they eat, drink and be merry with those death groans echoing in their cars? And how can we, when the groans of tho poor anil despairing are but a block or two removed from our ers? Iives happy in luxurious content, while Lazurus starves on his doorsteps ! The biblo is a handbook of both faith and practice. It is a good book for every day in the year, as well aa for Sunday. It has been finally seen that institutions are only the lengthened shadows of creat men as methodism is the life-study of John Wesley. How many books aro decollete and make their appeal to the devil in man, and not to the angel. Treacher ia (or aught to be) only another way of spelling teacher. Pastors should teach when they preach. Matthew Arnold's gospel of "sweetness aud light," ought to be expounded and transmuted into conduct. Sweet women and sunny men, strong but bright, should abound. We have many, and need more. Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth. . Andrew. What Dr. Arnold said of boys is equally true of men that the difference between them is not so much one of talent as of energy. $nt!h3. A man consciousof enthusiasm forgreat ends is sustained amid petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their way, and who hover in his mind as patron saints, invisibly helping. George Lliot: The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expenses as it does upon his giving handsomely whenever it ia proper to give at all. Chesterfield. The archangel who has never felt anger has reason to envy tho man who has subdued it. Riehter. One sure way of peace-making is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir it, nor add fuel to it, but let it go out of itself. Spurjwn. Tis" beauty' doth oft make woman proud: 'tis virtue that doth make tliem most admired ; 'tis modesty that makes thern seem divine. Shalrpeare. Success snatched boldly from the passing moment, not fearful" apprehension, wields the reins that sway the course of things. Goethe. A brave man hazards his life, but not his conscience. Srhiiler. Learn from the earliest days to inure your principles against the points of ridicule; you can no more exercise j-our reason if you live in constant dread of laughter than you can enjoy your life if you are in constant fear of death. Sidney Xmith. There are men without a particle of enterprise. They "stand in the old paths," nay, they almost lie down in them, and instead of being guides and helps they are hindrances and stumbling blocks. &i M atter llakigh. Today is a ferry-boat, and carries 119 across the stream of time from the shore of yesterday to the shore of tomorrow. And what a brief today it is ! Yet it is in this that we are called to a t ; for now yesterday is nothing but a rr emory, and tomorrow is but a possibility. It is ever today alone that we can exercise ownership. Think of it. Out of every twentv-four hours we spend eight in sleep and ten in work, so that there remains for recreation and self-improvement only six hours. Nevertheless, how many time-killers there are in the community men and women who expend all their force and talent in the wastage of these six hours, the quintessence and soul of the day. Today has been compared to an isthmus separating the gulf ot the past from the gulf of the future. Let many people treat this isthmus as Do Lesseps, the French engineer, did the isthmus of Suez dig a canal across it, and thus further shorten tho alreadv too narrow space which divides the gulf of yesterday from the gulf of tomorrow. Fools kill time which presently revenge itself by killing them. liedeem today from the dull monotony of existence. Make evry heart throb "a note of melodious meaning. Life for self alone is death in life. We feel, wo love, wo act nobly, and straightway life is alive. Wisdom says: Uso today as not abusing it. One of the most celebrated of American divines said recently that never since our world was swung out among the planets has there been such an organized and determined effort as that now being made to overthrow righteousness and make the ten commandments obsolete. Alcoholism is taking down its victims by the hundreds of thousands, and the politicians are getting down on their knees and saying: "Oh. thou almighty Rum Jug, we bow

down before thee. Give us the offices and we will worship thee forever and ever. Amen." As if the bad publishing houses of our own country were not enough, the French and Kussian sewers have been invited to pour their scurrility and moral slush into the trough where American ewine are now wallowing. There are enough houses of infamy in our cities, open and unmolested by law, to invoke the Omnipotent wrath which buried Sodom under a deluge of brimstone. The pandemoniac world has massed its troops, and they are this moment plying their batteries upon family circles, church circles, political circles and national circles. Apolyon ia in the saddle. If the above lurid picture is true to life, Christians have their hands full. A week of prayer is not enough. Weeks of prayer are needed. And good works must be added to faith. The world is not to bo conquered for righteousness by a campaign of rose water.

BABIES ARE FASHIONABLE.

"BAB" SAYS THEY ARE IN NEW YORK. Toang Wives of Gotham Proud to Be Moth, ers How the liable Are Dressed The Art of Keeping Young Milk Drink. Ins Headaches, Etc. Copyright, IS01, Bolt Synlicste Press. New York, Jan. 5. Special. A much mooted question just now is, "Is it Fashionable to be a Mother?" and it may be most emphatically answered in the aflirmative. The smartest of the young fashionable women in New York are never so proud as when they are accompanied in their drives by a handsome baby prouder and happier if they happen to have twins; and the whole lot of them were as envious as they could be when one of their set presented, on Christmas day, to her happy husband, two of the sweetest girl babies you ever saw. And what is more, these very fashionable babies are very simply dressed, but with every thought given to their comfort. Beautiful line fabrics are used for their frocks, but lace and embroidery are counted as undesirable, though no end of fine sewing by hand is permitted. One of the happiest-looking mothers in New York is Mrs. George Gould, prettier now than she ever was; and with one of the handsomest three-year-old boys, she looks as if she w as so glad she was in the world, and so glad she had her boy, that it is an absolute delight to watch her face. At the doll carnival her doll by tho by, it took a prize was dressed exactly as she does her little boy w hen he goes out to take the air. It wore long undressed kid leggings, warm flannel skirt, over it a skirt of lawn, a silk knitted shirt and a little gown beautifully but simply made of linen lawn. Its coat was a white cloth one, with a cape to it, and the hat a white silk shirred one that tied down over the little ears to keep them warm. The hands were covered with brown gloves and a little ermine muff on a cord was swung about tho nock, so it couldn't be lost, even if it wanted to. Its coat collar was fastened with a little bar pin on which was engraved, "Little Jay," so Jay, jr., was duplicated a doll. Pretty Mrs. Burke-Ioche is seldom seen in the daytime without her little group about her, the twin boys and the demure little maiden named Cynthia, while if you go a-visiting down where the hunting set mostly collect, you wiil find that in each country house the nursery is full, and that the little people are thought of with great pride. It has only been among a vulgar, new rich set of people that it is hinted that maternity is out of fashion. That woman's life is never quite complete who is not a wife and a mother; and, my friend, when you hear some young woman laugh and say she wouldn't be bothered w ith a baby, don't vou believe it. God hasn't seen fit to make her a mother, and the bravado with w hich she talks is as sorrowful as if she had put her grief into words. Every normal woman wants to be a mother, and when she doesn't there is something wrong about her, something wicked, and she can never bo cither a good friend or a good wife unless she has this desire. We may only have bread and cheese to offer, but you know if they are spiced with kisses they have a flavor that the finest sweets, the richest of game, and the most delicate fruits do not possess. Have you had any instruction in the art of keeping yourself young forever. This is the method. It is strongly recommended that every woman who can will go to bed three days in the month, sleep as mucn as possib r and think and eat as little. If she can stand it, a glass of milk aud vichy at morning and night will be quite enough for her. If she finds herself faint, an egg beaten up in the milk will soon strengthen her up. There is no doubt about it that a little fasting is a good thintr, and the woman who has the courage to do this will work better, live longer and look better than the woman who hasn't the courage to seek the seclusion of her bed for three days. IJcst, and enough of it, is what the American woman wants ; no matter what she is doinj;, her nerves are drawn like the strings of a fiddle, and they are bound to break either nil at once or one at a time. She is inclined to eat a good bit of nonsense, and so her stomach demands its rest as well as her nerves, and it gets it if the three days are adhered to. By the way, there has never been so much vogue given to milk as there is just now. In fact, there are hundreds of ciubmcn who have never seen aa much since they went from one bottle to another. You are asked to have a glass of hot milk, or a glass of milk and vichy, just as you are asked to have a cup of tea or some cmi; de mcnthe. In a cut-glass goblet, standing on a bright-hued plate, the milk and vichy is particularly appetizing, and it is marvellous how much of it the men drink. Now, this isn't the result of preaching a temperance sermon. It i3 the result of offering a simple drink in an attractive manner. Service in this world means so much, and really it seems to be more appreciated bv men than by women, A boiled potato and a piece of beefsteak on a hot plate, with a glittering silver fork and a bright steel knife, with the butter in a dainty little pat, and the bread in a smooth-cut piece, with the whitest of naperv, is more appetizing than a dinner ot twenty courses served in a careless fashion. When women learn that a man not only wants his stomach but his eyes catered" to, there will be fewer labor riot, fewer men to dine away from home and fewer clubs that depend on married men for their support. I waded through one column of closelyprinted matter headed, "Do you ever have a headache?" only to discover, when I I reached the tail end of it, that it was an t e a a e aaverusemeni ior a patent medicine; but it got me to thinking about headaches, their causes and their effects. I have no sympathy with a headache that results from over-eating, and which appears in the morning at tho breakfast tabic with a wet bandage tied firmly around its forehead, a decidedly cross expression on its face, and which, by its peculiarities, causes the entire family to feel blue. That kind is best put out by beating with sticks and a double dose of charcoal ; but there is another kind of headache. It is the headache that comes when you have tried to do vour best, when you have tried to be i honorab'e and considerate of vour neigh bor, when you have taken of the good things that come unto you and given them to others gladly and with a smiling face, and when all this is done and there is an unexpressed wonderment that yon don't do more and give more. This sort of headache comes, too, from being found fault with a courso of martyrdom calculated to make a liar, a thief, and a breaker of every commandment by the woman who bos to endure it. To be

told that you weren't cordial enough to Jones, that you were too cordial to Brown, and that there was no necessity for you to freeze Ilobinson to be told that you haven't the first instinct of a housewife, else you would know that when a man put a paper away in his desk that he really outrht to have taken down town, and of which you didn't remind him, for the simple reason that you didn't know anything at all about it; to be told that you are cros3 when you are so tired; tl.at you are sulky when you don't want to say anything, and somebody belonging to you selects this special time to bring some one in who has been told that you are a very bright woman this is the sort of headache, the headache provoked by all tho-o little occurrences, that drive women cither into the arms of the devil, or into the insane asylum. I can't offer any patent medicine to cure it I can only suggest that as it is usually our own pcopl. the people we love, nlid who think they love us, who give us such headaches, that they begin the new year by an inoculation of patience and consideration. Now is the time of vear when you ri'ad about the swell eet, the swagger set and the literary set. and the people who don't know any of them sigh and wonder howto get into society. I do so wish that every woman in "the world would understand that she makes a society for herself, and that it is good, bad or inditl'erent, as she chooses, he wonders which is the best eet in New York. It is like tho best sot every place else. If it has riches, it does not blazen them forth. If its blood is blue its reputation is white. Its daughters are not advertised in the daily papers as professional beauties, and its eons are not conspicuous among the horsey or Last set. It is charitable and kind. Its men are honest and it? women are above reproach. The sets you read about are rich yesterday, making a great display today : its downfall is chronicled tomorrow, and the people who formed it are forgotten the day after. Its women rate everything from a money standpoint, and" the ups and downs ot the street mean the increase or decrease of their socalled friends. New York's literary set has little to recommend it, except that the women in it pose as writers of renown, a name which they mistake for notoriety. They talk about subjects they do not understand in the least, and "most of them are examples of how a well-advertied pill is swallowed without question as to what it contains. To git into any of the oftquoted sets is not ditlicult : good dressing, a little money, a skin somewhat thick, and a tongue somewhat acrid, with a good supply of scandalous stories, will gain admission for a woman, while fort lie man, well, usually, especially in the literary set, men are in such demand that they are taken, no matter how or through whom they may come. You who are oil' in some far vil age and wish you could see all this gayety that j-ou read about, really can afford to laugh it to scorn, for a set does not make society. Society is the gathering together of two or three, five or six, or as many as you will, who find much in life about which they agree, and who like to come together to exchange a pleasant word, to have a pleasant hour, and to know that which is really and truly a pleasure. The other is the, basest imitation even tbe people in it know that the gingerbread is not improved by the gilt, or that it is worth offering to anybody but the fool who jangles his cap and bells as if he were proud of his position. While you are wishing, wish for something bett'er than getting into any of the sets, wherever they may be. AVLdi that vou may have a broader mind and a more charitable tongue. Wish that you may not see so quickly wherein is the fault, and that yju may find without any trouble just whero the virtue is. Wish that you may be contented not without ambition, but seeing the good that surrounds you. Wish that you may have a courteous manner, a kind word, aud a considerate thought for every man, woman and child in the world. Wish all these things with intensity they w ill be worth having, and they will surely come unto you. Bab.

ROBBED THE SAVAGES. A New Development in the Kean Bank failure. Chicago, Jan. 0. The developments thus far in petitions for relief by depositors in the suspended bank of S. A. Kean &, Co. has show n that widespread and diversified interests were involved, but it remained for Mr. Boss Taylorof Fvanston, in a petition filed in the county court this morning, to show that the savages of the far-off Kongo have both a temporal and eternal interest in the collapse. It comes about in this way: Missionary Bishop William Taylor, of the methodist episcopal church, has es tablished a large number of missions in the Kongo country. Last year he returned to the United States and spent some months in raising money for ' the support of these missions. He made Broker Kean treasurer of the fund, which amounted to about $12,000 and Kean deposited it in his bank. In November he drew a draft en London for $3,000 of this amount and kit for the scene of his labors. The remaining $y,000 was still in the bank when it failed, and perhaps the $:i,000 also, as it is not known whether the draft was cashed before the failure. Mr. Taylor of Evanston sets forth in his petition that tho money was a trust fund and should be made whole out of the assets ; that, relying on this fund, Bishop Taylor hired a lot of missionaries to go to Africa whose transportation cannot now be secured, and bought a lot of supplies in New York, which cannot now be paid for. The court will listen to arguments on the petition. The decision of the V. S. supreme court in the case of James B. Prather vs. Preston, Kean & Co. yesterday adds $20,000 to the liabilities of the bank. Prather was a banker of Marysville, Mo., and in 1SS2 made a special deposit of 12,000 in government bonds in what was then the bank of Preston, Kean & Co., Bince then re-organized ns S. A. Kean & Co. In 18S3, Frederick Kerr, cashier of the bank, absconded with 30,000 worth of the assets of the bank, together with Mr. Prather's bonds. Prather sued for the value of his lKnds and tho case was fought to the U. S. supreme court, which yesterday decided that the bank is liable for the amount of tho deposit, which, with interest, amounts to about $20,000. A meeting of Mr. Kean's friends and the attorneys for depositors was held this afternoon. It was with closed doors, but after the adjournment till tomorrow. Assignee Jacobs said that there was no doubt that a satisfactorv settlement would be reached. It is understood that an offer of 50 cents on the dollar was made and that the depositors were willing to accept that amount but that the parties in interest were unable to agree upon the terms of payment.

THE DEMOCRATIC EDITORS

OPPOSE THE GRUBB3 LIBEL LAW And Will Ask the Legislature to Repeal II Officers Chosen for the Ensuing l'fsr-Mldinmmfr Maeting at Maxinkuckee. The Indiana democratic editorial association held its annual meeting ThursJay at the Hendricks club rooms. The meeting w as cal'ed to order at 1 o'clock by President Loutbain. The following members were in attendance : C. W. Welman, Sullivan Times; Josiali Gwin, New Albany Public Pretr; B. F. Wissler, Cambridge City, Ind. ; II. J. Felt us, Bloomington Courier; Benjamin F. Louthain, Logansport Phnros; James A. Barus, Auburn Courier; J. 0. Iehymer, Tipton Time?; Dale J. Crittt-nbcrger, Anderson Democrat; II. A. Bainhart, Bochester Sentinel; John. M. Iliggs, Connersville luamincr; L. C. Jones, Madison Herald; E. II. Staley, Frankfort Crescent; Col. J. P.. Mayn'ard ; S. B. Boyd, Washington Democrat; Joe J. Gorrell, Winchester Democrat; S. E. Morss, Indianapolis Sentinel; Louis lloltinan, Brazil Democrat; A. A. Sparks, Mt. Yernon Democrat; T. W. French, Lafayette Journal; L. M. Feed, New Castle Demcrat; Col. C. G. Conn, Elkhart Truth; Frank A. Arnold, Greencastle Star-Pre??; Hale Clark, Washington Advertiser; J. l. Armstrong, Oakland City Record; A. Chapman, Madison Democrat; J. O. Henderson, Kokomo Difpateh; J. L. Smith, Dana Xnct; W. J. Hilligoss, Muncie Herald; Daniel McDonald, Plymouth Democrat; IL Daily, Jeffersonville Xete; J, O. Applewte, New Aibany Ledger; Joha B. StolL fckmth Bend Time. The session was a very interesting one. The minutes of the midsummer meeting at Indian Springs were read and approved, and the report of the treasurer, A. A, paries, received and accepted. The committee on resolutions, composed of Messrs. Stealy, Daily and Hoitman, reported resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Dr. T. H. Harrison of the Michigaa City Dipatrh, w hich were unanimously adopted. Col. Maynard, from the committee on compiling the records of the association from its organization, reported that the committee had held no meeting, and had nothing to report. He suggested that some competent person be employed to compile these records. On motion o Capt. IlilUgoss, the committee was instructed to engage some person to prepare a history of the association, to be submit ted to the mid-summer meeting. A committee of three, composed of F, A. Arnold, W. J. Hilligoss and J. W. French, was appointed to draft a new constitution and by-laws. A communication from the Hon. C. L, Jewett, chairman of the democratic stato central committee, suggesting that measures be taken to extend the circulation and influence of the democratic press of the state, was received and referred to the executive committee with power to act. Officers for the ensuing year were then elected as follows: President F. A. ArnoM, Greeneastle. First Vice-President IL A. Barnhart, Rochester. Second Yice-r-esilent Louis Uoltman, Brazil. Corresponding Secretary W. J. lliiligoM, Muncie. Recording Sectetary S. B. Boyd, Wasalcg ton. Treasurer A. A. Sparks, Mt. Vernon. Executive Committee S E. Morss, Indianapolis; J. O. Henderson, Kokomo; D.J. Crittenbtrger, Anderson; John B. t-toll, South Bend; iteubea Daily, JetTersonrille. The following delegates were appointed to the national editorial association which will meet at St. Paul in July: B. F. Louthain, J. W. French, LouisHoitman, Daniel McDonald, S. B. Boyd. Capt. Hilligoss called the attention of the association to the Grubbs criminal libel law, which he pronounced a disgrace to the state and an outrage upon the hewspaper fraternity. lie thought the association ought to demand the repeal of this law at the hands of the present legislature and moved the appointment of a committee of one from each congressional district to lay this matter before the legislature, and also to look after olher matters likely to come before that body ia which tho press is interested. After some discussion the motion was unanimously adopted. The committee was named aa follows: First district, A. A. Sparks; Second district, Ii. II Purcell; Third district, K. Daily; Fourth district,L.C Jones ; Fifth district, F. A. Arnold; Sixth District, W. J. Hilligoss; Seventh district, S. E. Morss; Eighth district, Louis Hoitman; Ninth district, E. II. Stealey; Tenth district, J. W. Barnes; Eleventh district, Capt, Sturgis; Twelfth district, J. W. A dams J Thirteenth district, J. B. StolL Capt. Hilligoss was made chairman of the committee. It was decided to hold the midsummer meeting at Lake Maxinkuckee, the date tc be fixed by the executive committee. An invitation from the Northern Indiana editorial association to attend its June meeting at South Bend was presented br Mr. Stoll and a vote of thanks tendered, A vote of thanks was also tendered the Hendricks club for the use of its rooms. A PREGNANT TEXT. Sir. Brush's Boodle Speech Commented up on la tbe I'alplU The remarkable speech made by Mr. W. T. Brush of Crawfordsville before the republican conference of Tuesday, and reported exclusively in The Sentinel, has made a decided sensation which is not confined to political circles. The presbyterians of this city, as is their custom, are observing this week as a week of prayer, and holding prayer meetings every night in their several churches. The topic for Wednesday's meetings was "The Nations." At the meeting held Wednesday evening ia the Second church the largest presbytarian church in the city the pastor, the Kev. Joseph A. Milburn, in the course of , his remarks, referred to the speech of Mr. Brush, as reiorted in The Sentinel of that date. Mr. Milburn said, in substance, that he had, of course, no personal knowledge as to the accuracy of The Sentinel's report. He assumed, however, that the statements of this paper were not inventions, and he declared that if the speech was made, as reported, it was a startling evidence of the degeneracy and corruption of politics in Indiana, and should give serious concern to all patriotic men. Mr. Milburn gpoke with great solemnity of the matter, lie studiously avoided, of courso, any allusion to its partisan aspects. His remarks evidently produced a deep impression upon hia hearers. His exact words are not given in tbe foregoing, but the thoughts he expressed are faithfully reflected.