Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 March 1891 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 11. 1891-TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS. President.

llstcrcd at tli PoiHAfBr at Intlanapoli a aecood c)ai matter. tlrgl eepv (InTariably In Adanee.).........Sl OO W f drmocraM to tr In mind and whet thrlr rva atata paper hn they coma to taka aubacrlp. t.'cct and tuke op cluta. Scroti waking up clut aend for anr lnrmiit'vi eaired. AddtatTUL lKblAAroi.lS SENTINEL InilianairftlK led. WEDNESDAY. MAUCI1 11. 1801. TWELVE PAGES. The I't-e and Salary Hill. The fee and salary bill, which lias pawd both hoaxes and ia now in the lianJs of the governor, is ono of tho most imjortant measures ever enacted by an Indiana legislature. It is the result of a compromise, indeed, as nearly ail important enactments are. "All government," said JIdmcnd Burke, "is matter of barter and compromise." Nothing could be truer. 'Many men cf many minds", assembled together can only reach conclusions by mutual concessions. The fee and f alary bill, as passed, materially uduces the etnclemcnts of all tlie important public ofilci it of tho a tide. It establishes the system of fixed talarie for 11 officers and tl e covering of all fees Into the treasury. It will tako cileot rs to all offices embraced within its provisions upon the expiration cf the terms of tho present incumbents. It will go into for.-o a to at least half of the office s before the jiext legislature convenes. It will put nn tend to the evil of constructive fo. j It is a measure of grat merits sAnd great importance, and if Governor JIovey kills it, ho will ar.i:me nn onerous responsibility for himself and party. The fact should no, bo lost sikht cf by the people that from tho beginning of the session there hi been a concerted effort on the part of tho republicans to prevent any legislation whatever on the subject of fees and salaries. Tho republican leaders Lave ne t concea'ed the'r determination to prevent, if possible, a democratic legislature from introducing the great reform to which both parti - pledged themselves in the last campaign. The vote on the conference committee's report in the two houses illustrates the attitu lue of the republicans toward this great question Jn the senate the republicans filibustered, and obstructed tho consideration of the report as long m possible, and finally, with the exception of ti e venerable Senatji Yanva.v, voted solidly against it, which was equivalent to voting against the bill. In the house similar tactics were employed, and finally, tho republican.', with the solitary exception of 3dc Do.vvi.l, cted against the report. There is no doubt that the republican Eenators and representatives in opposing this bill timply registered tho edict of their party caucus. Their purr oho wr.s, from the beginning, to defeat any legnlation at all upon this subject, with a view to loading the burden of failure upon the democratic party. Their course was unetatesrnanlike and unpatriotic in the last degree, and should be, as we bel'eve it will be, emphatically rebuked by tho people at the next election. The democrats are entitled to greatercdit Jcr their persistent, and finally successful, efforts to give the people a fair messuro of xeform. If the bill which was passed i.s permitted to become a law, nnd if it thall (te sustained by the courtn, as we are ronJfident it will be, there need bo r,o fear that the next legislature will repeal it. That body will doubtless strengthen and perfect it and supplement it by a material reduction in fees. Cut it wi:i not rct tore the old system. lit forms do not fto backward. It is ditficult to get a re.form measure of any land upon the ( statute books. But once embodied into 'law, it is much more difficult to destroy or impair it. The democratic legi'ature has done a grand thin;: for the people in passing this bill. The democratic party fcas again shown itself to be the party of reform, while the republican rarty has once more exhibited itself in the character of an enemy cf all reform. The issue thus joined is one upon which the democratic party can ar-peal to tho sober, second thought of tho people with perfect confidence. Tom Iteed'a Congress. The Fifty-first congress, which died Wednesday day, did very little that it ought to have done and left undone much that it should have done. It never represented tho peo pie daring a single hour of its existence. It was completely under the control of ihe centralization's!, the corporations, the trusts, the monopolies, and the eubsidy mongers until after tho elections ol November last. when enough members of tho majority became Bufficiently frightened at the results of their work to call a parti.il halt upon the mad program of plunder and bayonet rule. The failures of the infamous force bill in the senate and of the shameless mbsidy steal in the home were unwilling tributes to decency and patriotism extorted from a body of corruptioniats an J monarcrmtaby tho irresistible power of an aroused public opinion. The democratic minority in the Fiftyfirst congress made a magnificent record. It resisted tlie p'aaae of the McKinley bill with a vigor and intelligence which deserved, if it did not win, success. In its fight against the force bill it exhibited the highest qualities of genuine Americanism and earned the everlasting gratituie of the country by delivering it from the greatest peril that had threatened it since Ft. Sumter was fired npon. In its resistance to the subsidy steal, which was pressed by is powerful and unscrupulous lobby 83

ever swarmed within the halls of the national capifol, it presented an inspiring sp-ctncle of unflinching integrity and honorable fidelity to the interests of the people. The democrats in tlie house covered tnemselves all over with glory in their long and dauntless resistance to the usurpations, nnd tyrannies, and brutalities of the burly monarchist from Maine, Thomas B. Ri.kd. All in all, from first to last, the democratic party in the Fiftyfirst congress was one which tho party and the wholo people may contemplate with pride for all timo to come. No parliamentary minority ever contended so persistently and successfully against such fearful odds. If the democrats In this congress bad been less patriotic, less courageous and less honest the federalist majority of that body would have succeeded ia destroying local stlf government in thd states and in turning the treasury over to tho tender mercies of tho Gould-IIuntington pat of public plunderers, as well as in laving new burdens upon tin peoplo for tho benefit of tho manufacturers. Feo and Salary Reform and Tho Sentinel." The .Skntinfl has been for weeks receiving on an a t mgo a score of communications a day on the fee and salary question. It lias been manifestly impossible to print nil, or any cot-siderablo number of them, much n we should havo liVed to accomodate the writers. This feo and salary question has been discussed in all its hearings as thoroughly as any question evt r presented to the eople of Indiana. Tun Sl.ntinki. has, during thelaet six or eight months, literally devoted hundreds of columns to it. It has given every sha le of opinion regarding it, as expressed in letters to the editor, in interviews, and in tho editorials of the stato press, a full and fair hearing. The officeholders, the politicians, the farmers all c'.t-tcs of tlie people havo had abundant

I opportunity to make thi.ir views known to the public through these columns. And yet Thk Si:rixrx is constantly in receipt of such notes as the following from "A Farmer" inclosing a long letter in favor of an immediate taking euVct of a ' fee and salary bill: Phase publish this letter. It nay hurt yrMi to d; it, as it i not in accord with yoi. r wry of thinking. You believe in high aaiuries, many oilicers and large appropriations. If you can't consistently publish it please return it to me. 1 remit ttlllPllS. If The Sentinel wer actuated by a irif re Iova of applause instead of by better motives it would find it a little disheartening to be accused by a member of the very rlass whose battles this journal has bet n fiihtip? for years cf being in favorof "high salaries, many officers ami large appropriations." man knows better than the writer of this letter that T;ik .Slntinei. ha ben a etc adhisl and consistent advo cate of economy in government loerd, tat and rational; of moderate official salaries ; of el seiy guarded appropriations. There is no abus. in olliciaiis:n, no matter how strongly cmrenched.which Thk ?e.vti.nli. has not .'i.vaiicd. It has fought,and is to lay ticrhtini;, very powerful corporations in tlie interest of tho p'ejple. Two years ago it uttacked and broke down tho school book rintr, which had been plundering the people f r so miuy year. It ma le the fiht whicti resulted in the establishment of the Australian election system, which jives the farmer? and workingmen h rhancj to express their honest sentiments at the poll 8, una wed by intimidat'on, unfettered by espionage, and free from tlie menace of '"boodle." The Sentinkl has waged incessant war upon the infamous system of taxation, miscalled protection, which has impoverished the agricultural clashes and the wage-earners of the country and built up the great money power; it has fought against subsidies, bounties, and jobs of every description in city and county, in state and nation. It is in very li'tle favor with the olfice-hoidersandthe political bosses of any party; it is despised by the lobbyists; it is cordially hated by every crank and every bnodler and every co.vard in public, lite. Ami now, forsooth, The SJkntinkl. is told by "A Farmer" that it ia in favor of ''high salaries, many oiheers and large appropriations," and is accused by others of baring "sold out" or been intimidated by the county oflicers. On this fee and salary question Trie Sentinel's course has been consistent from the start. The Sentinel has never for one moment abandoned the4 position it took at the , very" beginning of the dUcussion. And yet it has not allowed the county officers, or any of them, to dictate its policy, as none know better than these gentlemen themselves. If the ollicials had controlled The Sentinel it would never have agitated the question of fee and salary reform at all; it would never have opened its columns to the people fcr the expression of their views upon the question in all its phases; it would never have printed interviews bad letters and newspaper articles dissenting from the views it bad itself expressed. The Sentinel, which is being roundly abused by tho fee and salary extremists because it has been frank and fair and consistent upon this question all the time, ia being just as roundly abused by tho officials, with a few honorable exceptions, because it has not allowed them to dictate its policy, and. w hile treating them fairly, has not surrendered its columns into their keeping. Yet the great mass of fair-minded people approve the course of Tub Sentinel, and notwithstanding all the criticism which it is receiving, its hold upon the favor of the reading public is increasing every day. Thk Sentinel nevr bad so many readers as it hrs to-day. It will have more of them tomorrow, however. The Sentinel does not claim to have originated the agitation for fee and salary reiortn. That is an honor that does not belonsr to it. The agitation began among the people, and The Sentinel, recognizing the enormity of the evil sought to be reformed and the justice of the demand for its abatement, entered into it with enthusiasm and vigor. The Sentinel appreciated from the beginning the difficulties and perplexities which surrounded the question and the magnitude of the task of reform. The question was not a new one. It had been before the people, at intervals, for years, and every effort to accomplish a reform had failed. Legislature after legislature, of both parties, had grappled with it, and always with ihe same result. The power of the organized officialism of the state hao. proved invincible. The mere attempt to reduce

hi1 rnvg and thoroughly, would be to disarm at tJio start the only serious opposition which such a reform would have to encounter namely, the opposition of the organized officials of the state. It bt-lioved it essential to the achievement of this and other reforms by the logialature to save that body from the influence of a lobby which had so often thown its power in the past and to prevent the obstruction of public business by the agencies w hich wore certain to bo put in motion by an attack upon the emoluments of men alreadr chosen to I office, iiit.iy of them after repedted efforts I involving large expenditures of money. I It believed, furthermore, that the great i mass of the people would bo satisfied with I the destruction, root and branch, of a vicious system wbich hai been in existence in the 6tate from its organization nnd had taken such deep root that only by 'a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether," could any hope that it worjd be extirpated, and that they would not put the permauencc and thoroughness of this great reform in needless jeopardy in order to hasten its taking eili ct by a year or two. For these reason-:, and not becauso of any paitia'ity to, or fear of, the officials o; the stHt,whom The Sentinel regarded as no better ard no worse than other men, this journal, from the bfirinning, took the view that it would be bent not to attempt the passage of a law to apply to persons already in or elected to office. It will bo said, of course, that tho county officers should have stayed at homo and not bothered the legislature. No rio:ibt they hhould. It would havo been very graceful and becoming in them to do so. lint they didn't. And' there wasn't tho I slightest reason to expect that they would. County officers are very much like other men. They are much given to charity, but their charity always begins at home. They are patriotic, but their patriotism cons's's largely in "looking out for No. 1." They are partisans, but their enthusiasm "for the ticket" is rarely at fever heat except when their names are on it. They I arv chock full of human nature Thev i know a good thing when they see it. ( Many cf them made reported attempts to g-t offico before they succeeded and put a good deal of money into their campaigns, l'erhaps they shouldn't have done this, and they wouldn't had it not been for tho vicious fcystem of otlicial fees which is now ioiight to be abolished. That system makes the offices 60 attractive that the average individual, with a bent for politics, is unable to resist its allurements. Tho most enthusiastic feo and salary reformer in the state would not decliue ft jjood office, and, it he were holding an otlice now, ho would be just as active and persistent a lobbyist cs Ihe slickest county olficer of th whole- crowd that has been hovering about She legislature ever since it aembled. There is no occasion, then, for abusine the county officers. They have on y done, as a class, what ninetynine out of every hundred men would have done if similarly circumstanced. The legislature, in a fit of misplaced generosity, conferred the appointment cf tax commissioners under the new revenue law upon Governor IIovey instead of upon the board of equa i.ation, as originally proposed. The bill provided that these appointees should be of opposite political faith, the intention, of course, being that one should be a democrat and the other a republican. The positions are of vast importance and call for men of special training, thorough familiarity with values and some acquaintance with the questions of revenue taxation and general finance. The governor has abused the powers mistakenly conferred upon him by the legislature by appointing Col. 1. X. Walker of this city and Josiah X. Gwix of Xew Albany to these post. Col. Walker is a republican politician and professional grand army man, who has many amiable personal qualities and a great many friends, but who is without the first qualification for the office. lie is a IIovey boomer, however, and his appointment is purely "politics." Common courtesy indeed, common decency would have led the governor to name a representative democrat as one of the commissioners. Instead of that, he has selected a man who is entirely without standing in the democratic party, being known only as a chronic "kicker" against democratic leaders and policies, and being popularly regarded as a "crank." "Worse than this, Mr. Josiah Gwix is utterly innocent of any qualification for the position. The appointments afford another illustration of Governor IIovey's intense partisanship and his rare capacity for blundering. The tax commissioners have be tore them a very important and difficult piece of work. It is to bo regretted in the interests of the whole people that this work could not have been intrusted to experts instead of to amateurs. The selections of the democratic caucus for trustees of the eastern hospital for the insane have much to recommend them. Messrs. Marsh, Hale and Smiley are gentlemen cf good personal aud business standing, and all who know them will be greatly surprised if they do not put the affairs of the Richmond hospital on a sound basis and keep thera there. The first and most important duty that falls to them is the selection of a superintendent. The success or failure of their administration will depend chiefly upon their choico for superintendent. The people expect them to exercise the utmost care in this matter and to take special precautions to avoid the mistake made by their predecessors. The post of superintendent of the Richmond hospital is a very responsible one. The incumbent should be a man of first rate executive ability, the highest professional attainments, unblemished personal character, large capacity for work, experience in the treatment of the iasane; a man of energy.

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vigor and honorab'e ambition. Such men are to be had, and the trustees ehould not be satisfied with any person who fails to come up to this standard. The superintendent of the Richmond hospital should be a man of the rank of Dr. Wright. Pr.

t Rogers and Dr. Thomas. The best to be I had is none too good for this great institu1 tion. The people have had enough of 1 "peanut politics" in theso institutions, )and they expect of the new trustees of tho w. i 1 1 . 1 1 i l , luciimonn nospnai a morougnanu rauicai reform, which can only be had by the appointment of a superintendent who is in every way tit. We trust that the new trustees will carefully scrutinize the records of all applicants for this position and make'thcir selection with rezard only to the important public interests which are to be placed in their cre. Tna Now York Tribune serves notice that if the next congress shall pass a bill reducing th tariff or increasing the free list President Hariu"ojj wid veto it. No such biil can, of course, bo passed without republican votes in the senate, and yet, we are told. President Harrison will veto it if it is passed. The Tribune says: It is net conceivable that a measure of the chaiacter indicated will become u Uw unless a two-thirds majority in both Iioihos can be found in favor of it. Not even tho wildest free trade enthusiast imagines that such a vote can be found in the senate, nor an there be a doubt es to the course of the presideut should such a measure-ever leach him. If he were to consider personal interest or th interests of his party, ho would realize that a rare opportunity was ottered to couimand public confidence and gratitude. If he considered only the question of party tactics he would see tht avitoof such a bid would force the tariir isue in a form peculiarly advantageous to tlie republican party. If he considered, as President Harrison unquestionably will consider, tho welfare of ihe country and tho prosperity of its industries, he will assuredly rexsn that the net signed by him lust year has not yet had time to manifest its full influence, and that the industries of the country oujrht not to be disturbed by a change of the tariff until that net bas in en fuly te-ted. Thu u veto may be counted ujou with certainty, and the democratic party will not ovrrconce that veto in the senate. We trust the president may be put to the test. No taritT bill has ever been vetoed, and if l'reai lent Hai:ki.on wants to establish a precedent by vetoing a bill to put wool, or tin plate, or salt, or iron ore on the free list, the democrats will be only too happy. They could ask no bettor issue for 1802 than this action would present. The governor's refasal to commission the gentlemen chosen by the legislature as trustees of the benevolent institutions is, nil things considered, positively the worst casettf "peanut politics" we have ever known. The w hole ground has been gone over within the last two years, nnd the suprome court has held, in the case of IIovey vs. tins state ex rel. Km.f.y (l!!i Ind., 3S(.) and in the ciso of IIovey vs. tho ttata ex rel. Cakson (110 Ind., .1oi, that under the constitution, and the effect which has been ir'ivt n it by practical exposition, tlie legislature may appoint the governing ohicers of all the benevolent institution of the state. The governor ignores these decisions of the highest tribunal of the state in the attempt to seize upon a little patronage, and yet he it- the same man who lectured the lejialaturj the other day upon its partisanship! We sometimes wonder what Governor IIovey reaily thinks of hii..se!'. Governor IIovey's refusal to sign the commissions of the officials chosen by the legislature Thursday and his refusal to transmit to that body the resignations of the trustees of the eastern hospital for th insane are eminently characteristic performances. Tho governor's previous attempts to override the legislature have proved so disastrous that a persistence in them vas no? expected of him. Put the governor teems to be one of those unfortunate persons who are in capable of potitiug by experience. He will insist upon monkeying with the legislative bnzz-saw, and of course he will have to take the coaecquences. Sore heads will probably be tho only result of the present etlort of the Anneka Jans heirs to get possession of the sixty-two acres of New York real estate, valued at about S3(X),000,000. Jfever in the hietory of the country has a claim like this of 102 years' standing been settled in favor of the claimants, and to the unbiased observer it looks like the heira were merely butting their heads against the wall of possession in a manner which can hardly harm the M

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the grain and live stock . produced in Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa, The alliance will no doubt be severely criticised for this project, but the farmers cannot be expected to stand back and keep out of tnists when all other classes are engaged ia them. TnE opening of eight million acres more of public lands would indicate that we still have room for a few more desirable immigrants. ET CETERA.

Mrs. CAtnovN, sbter to Gen. Custer, bears a gemblanco to her dead herobrother and possefcies many of the mental characteristics that distinguished hitn. As electrician who has made a specialty of spectacular electricity says that the day is not far off when electrici'.l fireworks wilt supersede those now used. He dee'ares tlmt for a comparatively moderntc outlsv he could Arrange an electrical diplay that wouUl last for many years, and could be repeated as often as desired. It wmld compri.1 rockets, roman candles, wheels, Niagara Falls and all the modern pyrotechnieal effects. A convict in a French penal settlement who was undergoing a life sentence, desired to marry rt female convict, such marriages being of common occurrence. The governor of the colony offered no objections, but the priest proceeded to crossexamine the prisoner. "Did you not marry in I Vance?" he asked. "Yes." "And your wife is dead?" "Sue is." "Have vou any documents to show that she is dead?" "No." "Then I m jf t decline to nvtrry you. You must produce some proof that your wife is dead.",! here was r muse, and tho brid" prospective looked anxiously at the would-be wr.om I'iaullybe said': 'T can prove that my foi mer wife is dead." "How will you do so?" "I was sent here for killing her." And the bride accepted him notwithstanding. Mk. SiKtr'i ANo, a German inventor, his constructed an electric phonograph, which is said to repr d uce the inflections of the voice with wonderful fidelity. The record is made on a band ol prepared paper, much in the same manner as in the IMison phonoifrar'. The receiver consists of a leh phon or.eide ot which is connected to a nieta lie point, which is adjusted to rest on the indented br . on the paper as the latter is unrolled for the reproduction. The other side of the telephone is joined to a metal contact piece which just touches the cud of the paptr band. Th two cor tuet makers are joined by a short piece of platinum vir, which rests perpendicularly on the pointed uetal btrip that enpages the phonographic record. This arrangement constitutes a microphone, and the vibrations imparted to the pointed strip by the marks on the paper as tU.9 hand is drawn pat result in perfect reproduction of t:e voice in tho telephone. PENSION PROFLIGACY. Thousand or Xntura Fraudulently no the Pmln Roll-. iSt. Iau Pepol'lie.l The New York Tfunw (rep. has done good services during the pant year in exposing the mismanagement of the pension. oitice by Commissioner ttaum, ami it now goei a ftep further in demanding a thorough overhauling of the pension rolls. In a leading editorial this morr.inj, entitled ,;Tbe Feeling About I'cuwions," it points out that there has boen much chr.nga in public opinion regarding the pension business during the past year, nnd that "lhre nre thousands of voter? who were heartily in favor a ye.ir airo of liberal measures for the benefit of union veterans, but who aro now inclined to lock with distru-t upon measures, heretofore enacted, ns well s now proposed, feeling that the business may have gone -too far for th public good." It admits the impossibility of meeting tt.is distrust with etroni; and unqualified denial ; indeed, it declares that facts hae come to lieht which have "gone far to impair public confidence in the care, impartia ity and efficiency of the service, and to increase the impression that fraudulent c'uims may have been granted in many cs s through the unHTiipuious influence of agent?." The Tribvv considers the situation so serious that there is danger h st the public willingness to meet the proper claims of honest pensioners may be impaired, if not destroyed, by the feeiing that the system has become a machine for the plundering of ihe country." In order to assure the payment of pensions, even to those who aro most deserving, it is necessary that there shall be au investigation as to '"how far the rolls of recipients of public money have been swelled, whether of late or in years gone by, whether by collusion, by fraud, bv neglect or by cunning and disUonesty which the be&t officials coul l not detect, with names which havo no right to be there." The Tribune, therefore, concludes that "if the present congress desires to do the best thing possible Tor union veterans, it will set on foot an inquiry which shall clear the penron rolls, so far as possible, of names fraudulently added and re-establiah public confidence in the fidelity of the a-rviee and in the real merit of the great body of pensioners." "Scarce'v any former officer of the Un ion army," says the Tribune, "has not become cognizant of pensions claims which he knew ought never to have fc?en considered, but which have been established through false swearing or fraud of some kind." The correctness of this opinion can not be questioned. Occasionally a writer for the press who served in "the army bears witness as to his own observations in this respect. Tlie editor of the Portland Orfgonian, for exam ple, who was in a Vermont regiment, has declared that he knows of his own knowledge that "since the passage of tlie arrears of pension act about every shirk ami utterly worthless veteran of his brigade has been a successful applicant for a pension." Ho told of a wagoner who had lost his leg by tumbling off his team while hopelessly drunk, but who got a pension on the plea that he had lost it in action with the enemy ; of another man who swore to having received injuries in a battle when in point of fact he was not present at all ; and of several who shot oil their fingers in ord-r to escape from service and then had their names placed on the rolls as though the wounds had been honorably incurred. It is not an exaggeration to say that there must be tens of thousands ol 6ueh shirks and frauds drawing pensions. The Tribune says truty that "there is a widespread feeling that a thorough purging of the rolls would lessen materially thd charges which the government has to meet." But it is not simply a question of saving the money out cf which the treasury is thus swindled. Tlie spectacle of a worthtrfis fellow drawing a regular income from the government to which he has not the 6halow of a claim, has a most demoralizing effect upon the community in which ho lives, and it would be a great service to the cause of good morals if the rascals could be expost-d. Hot a Cand dt. To the Editor Sir: Will you kindly state that the report published in the daily papers that I am a candidate for apr ointment as appellate judge is an error, have never announced myself as a candidate and am not a candidate for such appointment. W. L. Pen field. Auburn. Ind., March 2.

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AWM THOUGHTS! MORALS.? MANNERS rr A CtF.RQYMA!. In one of those comforting and beautiful pjalms which have been the delight of the church cf all ae-s, Pavid declares that "it is good to draw near (iM." Manifestly so. 'Tis even more a privilege than it is u duty tor man to resemble and companion with his maker. And this is what the phrate means. Now, thero are two wuys in which W6 may draw near (!od walk with llirn as linoch did. Ono A these is by the even tenor of a holy life. Tho other is iu bolemn acts of devotion. The firt of the-?o two ways is the desire of every religious heart, a life "hid with Christ in ixi," and bltmtrated by that metaphor of scripture, "the path of the just is as a bbining iight, which shincth more and

more unto the perfect day." As the first ,n.,n Qf rfav. it was ore of bis wrinkles faint twi iaht of morning is a ray and j not to have his name on his store. The prophet of tlie radiance which at tbe j palatial structure stood, in hi? time, ustneri lian floods th earth with sunshine, mitej by any si;;n. When some on o the beginnings of holiness in a human ( a4 r why he didn't put up a sign, ho soul are a degree of that celestial n ture i reolied. "I have th-re it is 1" nointina to

which shall one dry dominate the character, and are related to heavenly perfection as morninir is to i.oon. Now, it is us helps to this holy life that Folernn acts of devotion are ordained. In t hi lies their .dut. l'.ible teachings, hours of meditation, seas "ns cf co nmuu-io-i with Clod, accasions of worship in the house of the Lord these are means of grace and of growth m the knowledge of liol. Thev are independable in the Christian life. The neglect of thee nioars is to the believer what the neglect ct the seed tiu-e would be to a fanner who HutuiuD would witness an empty barn and an unprovided table. Therefore let the Christian who wishes to draw ne.r God be dil gent and prayerful in tho use of the appointed means. If the passion? never keep Lent there is all tho more reason for its observance by the spirit. , The feet and prevalence of profanity should seem to be a striking proof of the existence of the dovil and of his power over mau. For this U a form of evil which the human mind can hardly conceive of as originating unaided. Other ein; are easily accounted for. CovetousDess would push one to steal, or passion to fight and kill, or fear to lie, or depraved appetite to drink. But profanity this is absolutely, absurdly useless, and offers no compensating advantage. 'Tisan exotic on earth imported from the realm of darkness. It must be a suetrestion from the arch enemy who sti the fires of the pit and shouts the infernal chorus of hate with malignant glee and a kind of despairing hope, when men are won to damn God and their own souls in one breath. Tis hard to say whether profanity is more wicked or foolish. Is it not both in a supreme degree? 1 The vote, a fortnight since, in the British house of commons on the disestablishment of the slate church in Wales, was fcignificant. It was the handwriting on the wall. Here it is: For disestablishment, 203; against, 235. That is to say, in a parliament owned bodv and soul and absolutely dominated by the conservative party, and with an immense majority, there was only a majority of thirty-two against tho separation of church and state in Wales. j Galileo was right: E pr r vmore the world d)f move. The idea of making men re igious by statute, and forcing men to support a church they hate, begins to be recognized for what it is the essence of unreason, a school of atheism ; Dean Swift's extraction of sunbeams from cucumbers. The overwhelming maiontv of Welshmen are non-conformists. If thnt , could decide the question tne state church would disappear like a nightmare when the sleeper av akes. Well, as it is, disestablishment is ass-.red. And not only in Wales but in Fjtgland. For the church in Walea is a part of the church of England unlike tho late Irish episcopal church, which was a separate organizition. The destruction of the Welsh establishment logically involves that oi the English church. They are like the late Siamese twins, Chang and Eng. united by a vital ligament. The death of one means the demise of both. This was recognized in the debate preceding the vote above mentioned, and dise.-tablishment La Wales was opposed by the powers that be on tho distiuct ground that it would involve the Eng;ish church. Nevertheless, the adverse majority was only thirtytwo. Hence it is fair to conclude that only about that number of Uritith solons stand between the spirit of the ag and the medieval inconsistency of church and state. At tho next election the thirty-two will probably be elected to etay at home or be bent to join ex Senator I ngalls, up Salt river, to lament withi him the introduction into politics of the decalogue and the golden ru e. ; Some Christians maintain a dual stand ard. They acknowledge the divine authority of the moral code. They concede that "the law of the Lord is perfect." They

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.rMES rYLF.. New Yori. never question the necessity of obeying this per.ect law. Nay; they would be offended s.ioul i any one p-.iggest that the ethb'rj of the bible fcr? not ot univernai and invari.ib'e obligation a ci-cle as perfect as (i'mtlo's () a pair cf seal? neither ten rounds nor ten grams nsfrav a clock which loes aot vary au hour nor a minute in the day. Yet, somehow, when thev conm to perI tonal applications, thfy find or maWetxj eeption-i numl erh ss to the general rule, ik1 alwiiys in their own favor. I is never ri'ht lo iie, the lir-s say. And the r ondm t responds: .V-ver excej t when the truth is unsafe. 'Tip an infraction of the gol b-n rule to oven-earn or to dce:vo ia i trade, says the consciejcc. True, agents ' tho conduct fave when a n: c prolit can bo made. Thi.; is Die "leaven of unrighteousnesR." It behooves us to rembem'ber that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump especially if the lump be dou.h. Generally speaking, things are better not mixed, from candies to metaphors. A man never realues the wealth cf Information he doesn't possess until his first chill begins to ask him questions. The late A. T. Stewart of New York City j wa3 a Napoleou of trade. Hp mads more j nionev in direct business tlnn anv other this word, w hit h was on the inside and oulside of every do r : "I'u.-di." What is the secret of commercial success? Tush ! What is the explanation of the growth in circulation and influence of certain jouma's? I'uh 1 Why do some churches distance others in the race of usefalness? Push! Why do go-ahead ministers, Sunday-school tuperintendents with executive abi ity, teachers who are wide-awake ard Chri!tiar in general, who are "minute men" of out v. alwuvn strike a "get there" psce? Push! This word makes all the dilJerenee between success and failure in every ephere of human endeavor. A man cannot always tell what is the right thing to do, but he can come near telling every time what is the wrong thing. "1 shall give that to the missionfiries,' said Freddie, and he put his chubby hand on a little gold dollar, as he counted the contents of his money box. "Why?" asked Susie. " 'Cause it's gold. Don't you know the wise men brought Jesus srifts ol gold? And the missionaries work for Jesus." Stiltueaa for a few mouienia; then aeia said : "The gold all belongs to him, anyhow. Don't j'ou think it would be better to give Him just what He aks for?" "U ko' of ' innirl tl.n Krv And Susie softlv repeated: My eon, give m thy heart." You sometimes see a railway car fastened onto what goes before, but there is also a great hook behind. What is that for? Wrhy, to fasten something else behind and po lengthen the train. Any one mercy from God is linked onto all the mercy that weut bfror it, but Providence has also mu.le provision for adding future bl essin gs. Sp u rgcon. There are people who hed a great deal rather be the whistle or the bell on a steam engine than to be one of its drivingwhee.s. Arlon. Sd it mar be to If -rlng with a pttlmc faint nd weary. For a bopt deferred and saader itiil to it falnf and die; Yet to gTksi tie thing we long for, and 111 .orrow, tick and drfarj. Then to find how ll can L.1I u it the addt pais fcf alt Ann id pHOCToa. Is not the true state of the case this hat not our dresses but our morals are cut too low. Helen IouJen. Faith is the pencil of the soul that 1 pictures unseen things. iurbriijf HewhoupiMS u.e cross snail stireiy ehare in the exaltation and blessedaess of his Lord. Jph I'arker. Of the mode in which spiritual ihfluence acts upon a moral agent, tcripture says nothiug. It leaves this unrevealed, as'it doesallotherinttaphysic.il problems, tho solution of which is not tsseutiai to practice. llidtO) Jaekwn. It is the double influence of tne objec tive truth and the subjective operation of the spirit of God that tlie religious life or consciousness is awakened within. Dr, McCash. The projrrefcs cf holiness is sometimes like the lengthening of dayl.ght, after December, the difference is for some time imperceptible, but ttill is rea', and in due season becomes undeniably visible. Sa'hr. The church's mission is not to make men philosophers, although it teaches the best philosophy; nor to make scientific explorations, although it is the best friend of science; nor to write constitutions, although its inculcation's lead to the wisest political economy. But to ba'k proriicacy, to dethrone superstition, to emancipate spiritual bondage, to brak in twj4n the prison belts, to soothe hum-n pn:n, to turn the race on to the hi-jhw-ay of heaven this is tlie church's mission. Talmag, Chicago is said to be the most Lutheran city in America. It has sixty-five Lcth eisn churches and Sunday-schools of al I nationalities and needs then sadly.