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FORCE BILL RUMS.

Tho Vice-President Whip, ped Into Line. The Stewart Amendment Passes the Senate. A Purely Free Coinage Substitute Follows. The Senate Holds on Important Night Session. General Washington News anil Capitol Gossip. Washington, Jan. 1 1 Midnight. Mr. Hoar called up tho elections bill, in order to make it the unfinished business for tomorrow, pending which, Mr. Rutler moved" an adjournment. Ix)st ayes, 32; nay?, The veto then recurred oa Mr. Hoar's motion to call up the elections till, and resulted in a tie yeas, 31; nays, 3:). The vice-president cast the deciding yote. SILVER LEGISLATION. The Senate tn Night Reunion Transact Important lluainesa. Washington-, Jan. 14. According to tho arrangement made yesterday the senate proceeded to the consideration of tho financial bill immediately after the reading of tho journal. Mr. Ingalls took the floor and paid that there were two portentous evils which menaced the safety if they did not endanger the existence of the republic. Tho first was ignorant, debased, degraded, fpurious suffrage suffrage contaminated by the sewers of degraded nations; suffrage intimidated and suppressed in tho South; sutirago impure and corrupt, apathetic and indifferent in the great cities of the North ; so that it was doubtful to hi mind whether for half a century there had been a presidential election in this country that expressed the deliberate and intelligent judgment of fr!ie whole body of the American people. He then referred to tho newspaper interview Jiad with him several months ago in whioh he had said that the golden rule and tho decalogue had no place in an A mericau campaign. It seemed superfluous to explain that in that utterance ho was not inculcating a doctrine but describing a condition. His statement was a statement of fact; not an announce' ment of faith. Tho election bill was intended to deal with one part of tho treat evil to which ho bad alluded but it was an imperfect, a partial and incomplete remedy. Violence was bad but fraud was no better and it v as moro dangerous because it w as more insidious. Tho second evil to which he had adVerted was the tyranny of combined, concentrated, centralized, conscienceless and incorporated capital, and tho people were considering that great problem now. The conscience of tho cation was shocked at tho injustice of modern society. Tho moral sentiment of mankind had been aroused at the unequal diffusion of tho burdens, benefits and privileges of society. He had read in the morning papers Mr. Sherman's speech, a considerable part of which had been devoted to the defense of millionaires, who had been sjoken of as the "froth on the beer." Mr. Sherman "Not millionaires, but Speculators." Mr. Inalls "They are nearly the same, for the millionaires are not tho producers and laborers of the country. They are arrayed like 'Solomon in all his glory,' but 'they toil not, neither do they spin.' " One man in this country, the Midas of tho century, at whose touch everything turned to gold, had in a lifetime acquired, out of the aggregate of the nation's wealth, earned by the labor of all, a sum that exceeded the assessed value of four cf the smaller states', and w hich was many times more than the entire wealth of the republic when it was founded. Mr. Jones (New) next addressed the 6euate in support of Mr. Stewart's amendment. Senators might ns well make up their minds that the time wos fast approaching when the question of the world would be: "What is the money of tho United States?" and when the . effort of the world would be to obtain some of that money wherewith to pay the United States for balances of trade which they owe us. The halting and hesitating monetary policy of this government for some years past was well expressed by the lino of Emerconi "I am the doubter and the doubt." To which, in the words of the supplemental line he could beer the genius of this republic answer, ""They reckon ill who leave me out." And bo they did Mr. Jones thought. The United States could not be "left out" of the world's estimate. If they were it would be so much the worse for the countries which American statesmen and financiers called "the world." The debate then continued under the ten-niinu'e rule. Mr. Gorman offered as an amendment the proposition presented by Mr. Stewart en the 12th inst. providing for the imposition of a coinage charge on foreign silver. After debate Mr. Gorman withdrew his amendment for the present. Mr. Sherman offered an amendment adding to the words makinz treasury certificates a legal tender the words "except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract." He subsequently withdrew the amendment. Finally the discussion on Mr. Stewart's amendment clow -d and tho senate proceeded to vote on it. It was agreed to, yeas 42, nays 30, as follows: Yaa Messrs. Allen, Rarbour, Bates. Berry, THackbnrn, Butler, Call. Cameron, Cock r 11, Coke, laniel, Fastis, Faulkner, Gibson, Gorman, Hampton, Harris, Inpalls, Jones. (Ark.) Jon, (Ner.) MeConnell, Manderton, Mitchell, Uorrao, PaUiock.I'wco, Payaa, Fhuab, Fewer,

lo?h, Utagan. Pander. Shonps, Stanford, Stewart. Teller, Turpi. Vanoe, Vest, Yoorhecs, Walthall, Wolcott IJ. Nays Messrs. AMnch, Allison, CarT,Cessy, Culloon, Datia Dixon, Dolph, R.lmuuds, r.yarta, Frye, Gray, Hal. Ilawlay, lliKipns, lliaeock, Hoar, McMillan, MeThereon, Morrill, rUtt, tiay, Sawyer, Mierrnan, Spooner, Stock briJK. Warren, Washburn, Wllaoo (la.), WiL on(Md.X-30. Fairs were announced aa follows: Messri. Colquitt an i Dawes, George and Dlair, Kenna ami rarwell, Hearst ami l'attigraw, .Squire ami Jilodh'ett, ilrowo aud Chandler, Carlisle and Fierce, Hansom and Moody. During tho announcement of the pairs Mr. Wolcott asked by whoso authority tho senators from South Dakota, whom he understood wero in favor of tho amendment, were paired with senators who would also vote for it. Tho vico-prcKidi'nt said that ho could give no information on tho subject. Mr. Vuorhees said lie had been paired with Mr. Moody, having gathered that tho senator could not be relied upon to vote for the amendment, but nzainst it. His (Mr. Voorhecs') pair had been transferred to Mr. Hansom, who would have voted for the amendment. Mr. Wolcott said that ho had made the inquiry only to protect the senator from South Dakota, who had asked that care bo taken in pairing them, Mr. Casey said that ho had telegraphed Messrs. Moody and l'ettigrew. four or live days ago, stating that tho voto would bo taken today, and inking whether they desired any change in their pair-, and he had received no reply. Tho pairs thcreforo remained with senators Hansom and Hearst. Mr. Stewart moved to strike out Sec. 4 of the finance committee's bill lhig tho proposition for the issue of 200,000,1 KM of 2 per cent, bonds to buy up outstanding bonds. After discussion Mr. Sherman said that after the decisive voto just taken there was no use in wearying the senate uselessly. With free coinage of ti!ver, ho doubted whether 2 per cent, bonds could bo sold at par. He would not, therefore, oppos tho motion to strike out. The question was then taken and the fourth section was struck out yeas 4S, nays 19. The negative votes were given by Messrs. Aldrich, Cameron, Casey, Dixon, Dolpli, Edmund. Frye, Hale, Hawley, Higgins, Hoar, Morrill, latt. Power, tjuay, Sanders, Sawyer, Shoupe and Wilson (la."). Mr. Sherman voted aye. Mr. l'luinh moved to strike first section of the bill. Agreed to without n division. This sect on provides for the purchase of twelve million ounces of silver at the market price. Mr. Plumb moved to strike out the second section limiting the compulsory requirement of deposit of bonds by national banks to 1,000. Agreed to without division. Mr. Flumt) moved to strike out tho third section (as to national bank currency), and to insert in lieu of it tho fodowing: "That the secretary of tho treasury is hereby authorized to replace all sums of national bank notes, bereaitor permanently retired end cancelled by tho issue in lieu thereof, of the like sums in L. S. notes of tho description and character of the U. S. notes now outstanding and authorized by the act of March 3, ls.o.5, entitled "An act to provide ways and means for tho support of tho government." After a long debate Mr. Plumb's amendment was tLiin.iuly yea3-2li4 nays 40. Then Mr. Vest astonished the sen do by bringing forward as a substitute for tlio bill a purely free coinage bill, which provides that tho unit of value in the United States shall bo the dollar, to be coined of 412 grains of standard silver, or2" 8-10 grains of standard gold. Mr. Vest stated that his substitute was similar to the free coinage bill that parsed the senate last session. Mr. Aldrich moved to amend the substitute by adding thereto the national banking feature of the original bill. Lost Yeas, 33; nays, 34. Mr. Vest's substitute was agreed to without division. Tho bill as amended by tho substitute was agreed to yeas, 3'.); nays, "7, as follows: Yeas Messrs. Allen, Harbour, Bats, Perry, Blackburn, Iluller. Cameron, Cockrtll, Coke, Daniel, Kustis, 1'aulkner, Gibson, Gormans lUrnptou, Inpalls, Jones (Ark.), Jone, (Nev.), Kenna, McConnell, Manderaon, .Mitchell, Morgan, Paddock, Pasco, Power, Pugb, Ucairiin. Sanders. Shoupe, Stanford, Stewart, Teller, Turiie, Vance, Vest, Voorhcts, Walthall, Wolcott;). Najs Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Carry, Casey, Culloin, Darin, Dixon, Dolph, Fdmunds, Evarts, Fry. Hale, Hatrley, Higgins, Hi.icock, Hoar, McMillan, Piatt, Quay, Sawyer, Sherman, Spooner, Stock bridge. Warren, Washburn, Wilson (la.), Wilson (Md.)-27. The IIuse. In the house the army appropriation bill was passed w ith minor amendments. Mr. Mansur of Missouri introduced for reference a bill to throw open the Cherokee strip. Mr. Maosur said, in explanation of the bill, that the Cherokee commission was hopeless of coming to an agreement with tho Cherokee?, and therefore this measure was introduced. It had the practical indorsement and sanction of the administration. The bill was framed on tho proposition contained in tho act creating the commission, which was authorized to oiler J1.2 an aero for the land. The bill recites the law bv which the government has a rikjht to take the land and pay tho Indians 47 4;-l00 cents an acre, but it waives tho right, and agrees to pay $1.23. Of the amount paid, S( KK),000 is to remain in trust, drawing interest at G percent., and $2,700,000 is to bo distributed among the Cherokee entitled thereto under the treaty stipulation. This would give the Indians 5108 percapita. The- ltertnif Sea Mntler. Ileprescnative Fnloe, of Tennessee, today introduced in the house a resolution declaring that the conduct of Great Uritain infilinga suggestion for determination of the fisheries controversy by tho U. S. supreme court is without precedent, prejudicial to the comity of nations and to the amicablo conduct of international relations and in derogation of the dijrnity of the government and people of the United States. It also requests the president to communicate a copy of the resolution to the Fritinh government, if not in his judgment against tho public interests. THE BLACKBOARD ACT.

Indiana Itallronda Mnat Obey It, the Supremo Onrt Miya. An important decision was rendered by Judge Olds Tuesday in the suit brought by Greene county to recover damages from tho Indiana k Illinois Southern railroad, because that corporation had not put up blackboards in its stations, giving the time of arrival of all trains, where there are telegraph station, and such information could bo secured. In the lower court a decision bad been rendered in favor of the company. Tho decision of the supreme court, however, overrules this, and declares that the "blackboard act" is valid, and the railroads must conform to its requirements.

THE LIGHT THAT FAILED.

COLUMBUS, O., RETURNS TO COAL The I'reaanre tilvea Out and All the Conuuiers Are Miut OfT The Treasure GroWa Stronger tn Illackford Keonon7 Needed. CoLiMBis, O., Jan. 13. Tho Central Ohio natural gas and fuel company notified its 1,300 domestic consumers tonight that the gas would bo turned off tomorrow morning. Tho pressure became so low today that many fires in tho city went out and the company feared accidents fchould thev endeavor to continue under these circumstances. The continued cold weather has been such a draft on tho wells at Thurston, twenty-six miles cast of the city, that tho i Tenure, ran down to twenty pounds at tho field, with four and one-half pounds at tho city limits and only an ounco and a half in the lines in the city. Tho best tho company can promise is a probability that after tho cold weather is over it may be able to resume and furninh gas to thoc with whom it has contracts. The company has engaged all tho plumbers in the city, and will b gin in tho morning to remove the fixtures tliat coal may bo used. A majority of tho citizens, by previous notices of caution, are prepared "for the vhangc. IN BLACKFORD. The 1'reftsure Is Mueh Stronger Than Erer liefore. To the Editor Sir: I see in The Sentinel many reports from correspondents in the gas belt about tho natural gas situation. It seems you have no correspondent in Illackford county. To your question, "Is the pressuro declining," I answer, 'Xo; it is stronger today in all wells in this county than when first drilled. There has never been a dry hole struck in the county. The Illackford county gas field is conceded by all to bo the best uniform asterritory in the state. All factories use gas for fuel and light. Several larg.j plants draw their supply from one well, and the three years of heavy conrumption lias not weakened it in the least. One well drilled in last week, by the Hartford City window glaps company, is very largo, equal to the Fuirmount "Jumbo." The roar of escaping gas with tho vibrations of the ground for a mile or more around, lasted four or five days, the time employed in getting it packed and under control, aud caused greAt fear to the neighborhood. This well is on tho Kasoner farm about five miles southwest. The live webs drilled by this company arc away above the average wells of tne state. Thfl lirst gas well drilled in this state is located at Union, Indiana, 6even miles south of here and has been drawn up very heavily. All the factories there i s the"gas;also the town and country ar piped from it, and today parties fron there say it is as strong as it ever J'ai. A theory advanced by many is that the crut of the earth is gradually cooling and shrinking and wo are enjoying the escaping gas which finds its way into tho porus trenton rock. So much for theory, and if true we may expect gas foralltimoto come. No, sir; in Blackford county there is no fear of tras giving out. There are men in this county that are harping on a theory that gas is playing out, Those are leasers, leasing lands for monopolies. Thev aro telling the farmers that gas is short lived, and the time is short in which to realize on their eas land and lease it to them an 1 make all they can out of it. They aro leasing considerable land, paying Si per acre for it until they drill therefrom from $100 to $200 per year. I think this is tho source from'whence the scare conies. They aro increasing their farces of leases in this county. 1 have no idea but around the cages of the belt they aro drawing on their wells faster than the gas is generated. Wo think the supply of gas in this county will last for all timo to come. A Citizen. Hartford City, Jan. 12. WILL NOT LAST FOREVER. Therefore Ecouorny Should be Studied In the L'ae of Natural Gaa. To the Uditor Sir: I was much interested in the editorial and correspondence concerning Indiana's natural gas supply in today's Sentinel. While I do not apprehend that thero is any dancer of an early failure of gas in the great Indiana gas belt, it appears reasonable tome to believe that the supply must, at some time, become exhausted. If, as some claim, the gas was generated in past ages and is now being drawn from nature's great storehouse, the supply will surely fail at some time. Jf, upon the other hand, it is now? being generated, the causes which combine to produce the gas must of necessity of themselves sometimes fail. In either event there must be an end to tho now wonderful!- voluminous out-put of this airent, which has done so much, within tho pa6t three years, to plaut and develop material industries in the great state of Indiana. I do not ish to join in any cry of alarm, for I consider there is no present occasion for it. Your reports indicate, what I observe here, that there is no apparent diminution in either the daily output, or rock pressure, of yas from wells in this belt. Here, wo are using gas from wells, one of which is now in it fourth year, and it is as strong, in everv respect, as upon the day it was drilled in. Three other weils havo einco been drilled here, and each successive one was etroneer than the preceding one, notwithstanding tboy are all grouped within an area of forty rods square. I do not doubt that the pupply of gas is sufficient for several ceuerations, . but the useless and prodigal cxtrava gance, amounting to absolute waste, noted all over the gas belt, is to be deplored. However long continued the supply may be, it is evident that it could bo extended over a greater period of time if nut ordinary prudence and economy in its use wero practiced. While it is furnished consumers practically without price, its valuecannot ba measured. Hence it should bo carefully husbanded, and companies having control of the 'supply should adopt and execute,the most rigid rules and regulations looking to a prevention of this useless and extravagant waste. If it bo within the power and scope of legislation to compel economy in the use of this fuel, the present tession of tho general assembly should not hesitate to taite hold of tho matter and enact a law to that end. It is not enough that wc have the present resources to make Indiana the ereatest manufacturing state in the Union. We want to preserve and pro

tect for tho future this subtlo agent that is daily putting into motion the busy wheels of industry. J. U. Lambent. Middletowu, Ind., Jan. 12. DIAVOLO AND TURPIN OUTDONE.

Eiplolts of a llasitau lUmllt Who Has Keen Sentto M berln. At Loustsk, in Foland, the criminal court was engaged tho week before last with one of the most extraordinary trials on record, and ono that has been fully reported in the French and Russian journals. Tlio accused was a Uusbian nobleman named Kroukowski, whoso exploits as a briiiaud put Fra Diavolo and all his brothers 'n the shade. And the interesting thing about all hU criminal and romantic career is that thero is no room tor fiction in the story, because it Las been established by evidence corroborated and sworn to in court. For years past this man, Kroukowski, was in the habit of carrying on a nocturnal warfaro upon the rich, nobles of Volliynia. l'.eing the son of rich parents who lived in the Podolsk covernment, lie ro ceived an excellent education, and epoko French like a Parisian. He rt nt a great deal of bin time in Paris at the commencement of his career, and was the guest there of several aristocratic families. In 1SS1 lie wa.s living a very taut life in tho French capital, and when hie fortune began to slip away from him he organized a band of brigands, the princip il ofheers of which were his coachmen, his valets, and some moniiks on his own estates. Then he set oil" for the Kejoll government, and commenced to tako the castles of tho nobles by storm or strategy, according to circumstances. In a short time, after a lew skirmishes withtheczar'sttoops, he fount I himself and his band surrounded, and nothing seemed loft for him but death or surrender. Tho troops, however, only succeeded in capturing a comparatively small number of the brigands, an i their astonishment was great wnen it was discovered that tho chief had escaped. Then they remembered that a feeble and white-headed man, bent with age, asking charity of the officers, was permitted to pass through their lino. That bogus old besrgar was Kroukowski. Two years slipped by And nothing more was heard of him until suddenly he appeared at the head of another band of robbers, which he organized and equipped for service in Galicia, w here, his exploits were recommenced. Of course, he never remained very long in one place, and his movements were singularly rapid. He came upon a community like a blizzard and his boldness knew no bounds. At Loustskand Doubno it was shown in the evidence that he often used to walk about the street and fiirt with the ladies; but every time tho police pot wind of ids presence the search foe him proved fruitless.One night, however, tho authorities became awaro of tho fact that tho celebrated bandit was in a little inn at the outskirts of the village of Kevertsi. The troops were immediately called out. The jdace was surrounded and all tho doors carefully guarded. Suddenly a Russian olticer in full uniform appeared. With An air of authoriiy he asked to seo the officer in command of the troops. Tho latter approdebedmrTT?plf,illy and told him tho object tf his visit. The handsome ollicer seemed surprised at first and then smiled at what he appeared to regard as a hoax. Then ho requested the young lieutenant in command to be so good as to eive a lct'er with which he presented him in tho po itest manner possible, to his friend, tho chief of police. Tho lieutenant took the letter, promised to deliver it, and saluted. The line-looking Kupsian olticer stalked away after having returned the military saluti with which the troops honored "him. When the lieutenant got back to the village with his men and reported, ho handed the chief of police the letter which ho had received from his brother officer. The latter opened it and read in French tho following: "Kroukowski, chief of brigands, presents his compliments to the chief of police." . The unfortunate lieutenant lost his rank for allow ins himself to be duped. Kroukowski also followed tho examplo of his Italian confreres in making prisoners and demanding a high ransom for them. One of Ids prisoners was the daughter of a prominent Russian count. The count paid the ransom and got back his daughter, but was soon afterward horrified to learn that she was about to become a mother. Ho then proposed to the outlaw- to marry his daughter, and promised that if ho did so and returned to an honest life he. would do his utmost to secure his pardon, and wou d succeed beyond a doubt. Hut Kroukowski replied that he regretted exceeding'' (hat a previous engagement put it out of his power to comply with the count's request. He was very much in love w ith another lady. The authorities then went to work to discover that interesting young lady. They found her, and a watch was placed upon her house, where, at last, after a desperate fight, Kroukowski wns captured. Although his fights and duels were innumerable, there was no evidence to Crovo that he ever committed a coldlooded murder. That was about all that could be said about him, except that he was a chariatble robber, and bis cifts to the poor were princely. As be earned his money easily, he parted with it lightly, and he was a great favorite with the moujiks, to whom he renlly owed his facilities for fooling tho soldiers and police for so long a timo. But the court sentenced him to penal servitude for life, and his appeal to the czar has been unanswered. Ho will be sent to the island of Sakhaline, in Siberia, where he Avill bo chained to some other convict in the gold mines, from which no prisoner has ever yet escaped. Rut the -moujiks still have faith in him. They already r gard him as a, Chevalier de Monte Cristo with plenty of hidden treasure, who is sure to come back and share with them like a gentleman. But It Win't Ituitlied. Washlneton IVi "Great Scott!" exclaimed one employe in the telegraph office to another, "haven't you sent that message yet?" "No," replied the operator, "there is something written down on one corner of the page that I wouldn't quite catch, so I put it aside till I got time to study it over. Can you make it out?" "Yes; I wrote it myself. It's 'Rush.'" Always Ite Ejp.lclt. fLlta.) She 'Tlease make me up a dose of castor oil." Smart Clerk (after a lapse of five minutes; "Have a glas of eoda, won't you?" She drinks soda and waits for the oil. Smart Clerk "Anything else. Miss?" She "The castor oil, please." Smart Clerk "Why, 1 put the oil in the soda!" She "Well, I didn't want it for myself. It was for my brother."

xlSUNDAY THOUGHTS!

WON M0RALSrf MANNERS ST A CLKROTUAX. In our larger cities thero is a class who esteem themselves too good for contact w ith common folks. They arc the counterpart of the "four hundred" of Gotham, described by Ward McAllister in his "Society as 1 Have Found It." This is the explanation of tho wide sale of that book, which has 'no literary value, but gets its sole imortance from the fact that it photographs tho manner of life of tho elect select. How do tho "upper ten" comport themsclves? They reduce eating to a fine art. The compete with one another in the number and costliness of their meals. A single dinner often costs $l.,ODO. The chef in some kitchens commands $10,000 per annum. The salary of a judgo is hung up in a chandelier. Fucian, tho Roman writer, tells of an exhibition in ancient Rome in which monkeys had been trained to act. They played their parts admirably before the wealth and beauty of iho city, until a wag Hung a handful of nuts on the stage, w hen presto! the actors were moukevs again. This is strikingly suggestive of the "iour hundred." They t:ive much time and attention to dress. The men imitato Reau Rrummel, w ho threw his whole soul into the tie of his cravat. The women undress as far as they dare, and then, by a btrange abuse of language, call their nudity "full dress." Decol.ete is only a foreign way of fpelliudecency. Having dressed and dined, society proceeds to dance, That wakes the dudes aud dudines up. Miss Lydia Languish is galvann:ed into the semblance of lif-,and Augustus Fitznoodle is a decree less blase. They reckon time from ball to ball, and date from germun to german. "Society's" only events are the learning a new waltz tdep or tho changing a fashion. Such, according to McAllister, who is a high pri st in the temple of fashion are the serious employments of beings calling themselves rational and Christian. Round and round thev march in an endless procession of folly, from dressing-room to d.nner-table, from dinner-table to party, going to bed late, rising fagged and heavyeyed, onlv to bejrin each new day the same rapid life. When winter ends and summer interrupts them, "society whirls oil to seaside or mountains, but only to change tho scene, never to change the play. .Thero is a strife among them for precedence in ostentatious vulgarity. Chef vies with chef, wine-cellar competes with wine-cellar, and Worth and Heufern, tho men-milliners, aro the Achilles and Hector of tho vulgar Iliad. These are the people who set the social pace, who give or withholdihcfiixittl cutree, and who assume to decido who fhall be "in tho swim." They are setting up in America the standards of living which brought ancient Rome to ruin, and which precipitated the French revolution, when, as Carlylo said, the eighteenth century blew its own brains out. The chief end of man, according to McAllister, is to spend a fortune on a dinner, pretend you know who your grandfather was, cultivate a complexion that will not wash and wear a gown made by Worth, l'opo wrote: "Worth makes tho man," but nowadays Worth mkes the woman. Thank God these noodles aro only an excrescence in America. Rut they are worth a moment's study as examples of what to avoid morbid social anatomy. Find out what the "four hundred" do, do tho exact opposite, and you wiil do about right. They nro to be read, as Mho'ara read the Ilebrew, backward. There is some dignity in, and some excuse for, European aristocracy, bad as it is. It comes down from the past, was founded in heroism, aud is usually decorated with culture, and often with gracious charities. Rut this American counterpart, this fishv article of tho McAllister brand phewf it smells rank to heaven of decayed cod. We aro impelled to cry with Fal staff in the play: "No more ot that, Jlal, an' thou lovest me." We need in this country a revival of Americanism not in a political, but in a moral sense. Tho lofty ideal of liberty, equality and fraternity, which under-lie our system, ought to be inculca ed. As yet caste is only sporadic. It tends to becomo epidemic. It should be the g'ory of a man to be enrolled amoner tho workers, not tho shirkers. We ought to feel, as Emerson says, that "it is the privilege of honest work, whether it be making shoes or making statutes, to invest the doer with a certain honorableness." Thus a workingman has as much right to put "Hon." before his name as has the congressman who represents him. Abraham Lincoln was once asked, "What is your coat-of-arni6?" Remembering his early occupation of rail-splitting, ho answered: "My coat-of-aruis? Why, a pair of shirt sleeves rolled up to the elbows, with an ax on the rampage!" In ancient and imperial Rome, the congenial occupations were loafing and fighting. . In modern and democratic America let the congenial occupations be working and helping. According to Philip Hamerton there are only three callings in England that are "yood form," viz., landowning, the church and the army. The physician and the lawyer are hardly tolerated. Commerce is said to be a social Coventry; while the mechanic world is as utterly beyond the recognition. of my lord and my lady aa ia the east end of London. Let us not permit our ang'o-maniacs to import this state of things. Let the tarilTon aristocracy remain so high as to bo prohibitive, while we cultivate the republican ideas which inspired the song of Rums: For a' that, an l a' that. Our tail obi-cure, and a' that. The rank i but the guinea's stamp, The man's tho guvd for a' that. The recent heresy trial in Cleveland, O., has attracted wide attention and called forth many comments, some wise, butmot-tof them unwise. Heresy hunting is unpopular sport, but it is some times as necessary as it is in new countries to extirpate wild animals. This is a free country. No one proposes to put a padlock on free lips. If persecution should preach a crusade against the weakest and most unpopular of sects, we believe men of all creeds and of no creed would unite to defend freedom of conscience and of utterance. Rut this is a very different thing from insistence upon preaching within the pales of any given denomination doctrines disallowed by that denomination. When.

Father McGlynn, of New York, undertook to Identify Roman cat ho ioisr.l with tenents hateful to it, and to use his pulpit for the propagation of ideas radically opposed to the etandard of his church, he was rightly deposed. The hierarchy did not deny his right to hold and utter his views it simply said : "You shall not do so as a Roman catholic." When l'rof. Swing in Chicago was arraigned for transgressing the preshyterian canons, Ids church did not propose to silenco him; it only declared that he should not identify presbyterianism with views which it believed to t false. Just so in this Cleveland case. The Rev. Howard Mdiucary, while acting as rector of an episcopal church, denied the miraculous birth of Jesus and the reality of his resurrection. Tho episcopal sutnorities did not question his right to think as ho thought. They merely said : "You shall

not deny what our church Imltls us luntamental ' truth while preaching with episcopal sanction. If you wish to preach your denials, no outxide. We refuse to be responsible for your vagaries." Is there any t!ihtest element of unfairness in such conduct? On tho contrary, is it not unfair for an erratic individual to insist upon remaining within a church whose standards he ant agonizes? N ay.ia not a preacher lacking in moral senso w hen, after radically changing his creed, ho mif udently persists in liiiinr to his mentally) discarded orders, aud forces the ecclesiastic authorities to proceed against him for heresy? It strikes me that a man of right feeling would voluntarily step down and out of a creed ho believed himself to have outgrow n. If he doc not, lie should bo summarily dismissed. In all this thero is no question of persecution, nor even of intolerance. The only question involved is this: Shull a preacher be allowed to represent adenomination which lie radically misrepresents? And concerning this there can be no question. If such a preacher is not honest enough to po pelfmoved, w here he belongs, ho should bo made to go. Any church is justified in sayine to a recalcitrant: "Stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once." There arc others besides the ancient Israelites w ho w ill worship a call if it is a golden one. When, in walking along the street, says one, we hear a firo alarm, we only feel a general interest. If we count and find our district announced, we feel a special interest. Rut if a fireman rushes up and says: "Sir, your house is on fire!" tho peril is vividly felt as a personal one. So is it with tho promises and menaces of scripture. , The colleges and schools aro right in providing liberally for muscular exercise. A professorship of sculls is as important as one that deals with skulls. Ours is more and more a sedentary age. We need, therefore, to counteract this habit by vigorous exertion. An exchange calls attention to the fact that exercise is as indispensable to greatness as it is to happiness. All eminent men havo laid the foundation of their superiority by working hard during their minority, and by continuing to exercise daily through life, while those students brought up without labor rarely takeahigh intellectual stand, save, perhaps, in parrot-liko scholarship. J. Q. Adams always rose before the sun to take his exercise, and as he grew old took much of it in swimming, which, he said, gave the required amount c f exertion without heating the blood. Ronton was a noted exerciser. Jefl'ersou worked "like a Trojan." Folk took a Ion? walk every morning. Webster would have his seasons of bunting, fishing and rowing. Washington was a hard-working farmer as well as a soldier. One chief reason why so many men who have all the phrenological indications of greatness do not distinguish themselves is want of physical exercise. Soiled linen should be w ashed at home. "One hundred able-bodied men wanted," was an announcement we lately saw at tho head of an advertisement for recruits in the government service, writes Theodore L. Cuyler. No invalids could pass muster. It was duty on deck and amid tho rigging that was required, and not a berth in a hospital. It occurred to us that just such an announcement would be. in place upon the doors of all our churches : A hundred able-handed, noble-hearted men end women wanted for Christian duty. There are quite enough now who never answer to roli-call, but are stowed awav in berths of sickness or sleer hospital soldiers. The essentials demanded for efficient service arc the four, viz: The Christians called by the Great King should be prayerful, patient, persevering. powerful, lhese lour l'fl constitute me healthy Christian. Here are a few proverbs which arc worth attention: There are some people who, like a new song, are in vogue only for a time. No man was ever deceived by another so seriously as by himself. It is to'be feared that they who marry where they do not love will lovo where thev do not marry. lie that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion. What we know is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense. Cheat one in the price rather than in tho goods. Unworthy offspring often boast of their worthy descent and have descended a long way. At twenty the will reigns, at thirty the wit, and at "forty the judgment. When mother died she left Mme thing on this side. She could not see very' well, and hence wore glasses but she left them here. No need of glasses in heaven, where w e see as we are seen. She left her bible here. It w as her chart and compass on the sea of life. It brought her safe to harbor. She does not need it now. We little think of loveletters when the lover is present. She left her property here. It would make a p or showing In the city whoso streets are golden. What use of carrying property to heaven where a palace is furnished rent free? Rest of all, she left us the example of her piety and prayers preferable to a clean million. What will you take with you, and what leave here? Chicago la Footsore. He (passionately) "Darling, watch me as I cast mvself at your feet. At your feet I plead for love at your " She (a lake front damsel) "Young man, get up (coldly) 1 When I am in need of a chiropodist, sir, I will consult you!" Sueostul. Pullman Car Agent ''Sorry, sir, but we're all out of low er berths. I can sell you an upper." Actor (haughtily) "Yes ; no doubt; but I never travel oa my uppers."

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SYSTEM DY WHICH IT IS CONTROLLED. The 2tl nlura; and Norwegian System! And Haw Tliy Work The letter held to lie the Meal Man-Illustrations of How It la Done. Boston IIcraM.l The other day we set forth the method of controlling liquor selling in Sweden, which is called the Gothcnburg'systera. It has obvious and great merit, but the Norwegian system, which differs from the Swedish in one important particular, if the one which comes nearer to being an ideal plan for regulating the trallic in intoxicating liquors. The municipal council in Norwegian towns, either alone or in tlio association of the magistracy, is the licensing authority, and determine?! the number of licenses required and tho time to which they should extend. No singlo person can hold more than one license, and Fxicties which bind themselves to apply the possible profit of their trading in aid of objects of general public benefit and utility, and whose authority is confirmed by the municipal council, under the royal seal, may hold one or several, or all tho licenses hi a given locality. The point in the Norwegian system is that the society must spend the surplus profits of its business upon voluntary objects of general public benefit and utility, while the Swedish system turns tho surplus profits into th local treasury, to bo used in reducing the rates, so that they are a direct inducement to encourage drinking. The Norwegian system is as effective as the other in the control of tho sales cf liquor, but it uses its profits for a better purpose. Norway in 1876 consumed 2,612,320 gallons of tpirits, and this amount was reduced in 1SS7 to 1.189,440 gallons. The working of the system by which this lessened consumption of liquors has been reached is best illustrated in the largo town of Bergen. It has a population of 50,000, and v. hen the new law went into operation fourteen years ago it had fourteen bars with a population of 40,000, w bile under the new system, with a population at tho present timo of 10,000 more, it has only thirteen. It had at first to contend with perpetual licenses as granted by tho town, and has used part of its surplus profits to buy up these licenses as they have come into the market, so that it might have tho regulation of the liquor trallic entirely in its own hands. Tho result of the operation of tho system in fourteen years has been notable, first, in the reduction in the amount of tpirits consumed, and in a considerable, but not equal, increase in the consumption of wino and ale. Tho amount of drams sold hafallon from 2.2 quarts per head of the wholo population in 1877 to l.o ouarts in 1SS0. In the second place, tnough the wine and ale houses havo done moro business, the arrests and summonses for drunkenness and similar otI'enCB, which were 1,185 in 1S76, were only 720 in 1SS0, and the charges of the il egal salo of spirits fell from lo to o. The third item is an instructive comment upon the value of tho system in nippins habits of drinking in tho bud. Tho statistics are that the applications for spirits from persons of tender ago, or in an inebriated condition, fell from 12,812 in the fiinlo quarter of 1877 to 12,610 in tho w hole of 1SS0. A word is important as to the method of keeping tho bars and the use of tho surplus profits for objects of public utility. The bars wero placed in the roost frequented streets, and tho barkeepers were men of character and integrity, whose right to oilice depended upon their prevention of excess in drinking. They were paid fixed salaries, and had no interest in the amount of sales. The bar-rooms were clean, and the attendants were males, dressed in uniform and courteous to their customers ; but thero were no seats, no corners for loitering, and no staying on the premises after the liquor had been consumed. The bartender was made a judge of how much drink a man was able to carry away without intoxication, and children wero not allowed to enter the premises. The bars were opened on every working day from 8 a. in. to 8 p. m., with the exception of an hour and a half at noon, closed at r p. m. on Saturdays and on the day before holiday festivals, and not opened at all on holidays or Sundays. The results in public utility are stated to have been the improvement of the public parks, th museums, the theaters, the institutions for social and industrial relief, and the placing of all the temperance societies in liergen in a condition where they could do their work to the best advantage. It is an object lesson in the handing of a very difficult problem that this statement of tho principles and operation of th Norwegian system has importance for us. It shows how, with a comparatively fixed population, it is possible to deal through, the state with an evil which is found to be more corrupting than any other, and to ba closely connected with criminal conditions. Negatively the City of Berpen, though a seaport community, has illustrated, durine the years that this system has been enforced," the natural thrift of people who aro relieved of tho worst forms of intemperance. Today extreme destitution among its citizens is almost unknown, and the social condition of the peop'e is vastly improved from what it was fourteen years ago. Too ISualnaa-L1ke Cor Him. Judge. She "I low changed Mr. Banks is. lis is so moody and dreamy, and he nsed to pride himself on being so practical and business-like, and couldn't tolerate anybody w ho wasn't." He "Yes. He wroto and proposed to a a young lady the other day on his office paper and she declined him on a postal card." Then lie nt end Ricked Il'mself. SoracrTiHa Journal. "Eon't you think, Miss Twilighte, that vou could learn to love me if you should try?" "Really, Mr. Vere de Vere, I don't know. I learned to like tomatoes once, but niter careful consideration I have been sure ever since that the result wasn't worth tho pains." No Cauae For Alarm. Excited Messenger "Run up and tell your employer his bank's failed, and the very devil's to pay !' MacDermott (the bookkeeper, coolly) "Awa', awa mon; if that's a ye need na trouble yoursel' S The gentleman's always a standing creditor at our house 1"