Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 May 1891 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 20. 1891 TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS, President. llttmd t th Poitonce at IndUapolu u Mcond claM matter. TERMS PER TEAR fin fie eepv (Inraxiably la Advance.) 00 Wak itmocruta to lar in mind and ("elect their tn etate paper -when they coma to Uka aubtcrtpti r. and make np cluba, .A rent making np cluba aend for anr !nformatfm cttired. Addeaa TUE 1DLA ArOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY. MAY 20, 1891. TWELVE PAGES. The telegraph editor of the Kansas City Times is entitled to the medal fortho most catching headline of the season. It referred to the recent assault on tho czarewitch and was : "Russia's Heir Cut." TnE Evansviile Journa one of the ablest republican papers in Indiana, hits the nail squarely on the head when it gays: It wan a happy day when the schoolbook octopua was knocked out and responsible Indiana contractors were awarded the right to euppljr the schools with the latest approved books. But the Journal will have a hard job making its Indianapolia namesake believe as it does. The Indianapolis Journal is for the octopus first, last and all the time. WnAT an inconsistent creature man is, to be sure. The world hold's up its hand) in holy horror at the conduct of tho Chinese, who are massacreing Europeans in the effort to drive out foreigners. Yet every country in chrietendomis seeking to accomplish the same end by one means or another, and in each such a course is deemed highly commendable. We are all inclined to think we have sacred rights in ever)' other man's country, even though we concede him none in our own. The principle in this matter seems to be that "what's yours is mine, and what's mine's my own." Now it is said that Secretary Noble and not Commissioner Racm will have to go; that the pension sharks have got the tipper hand, and that the man who has partially stood between them and the treasury will be forced to retire. Racm has got several bureau heads in the interior department to join him, and with the aid of the iand thieves, subsidized railroads and pension sharks they hope to get the scalp of the only man ia the president's cabinet who, because of both ability and integrity, has the respect and confidence of the people. Succeeding in this effort, this precious gang of public rascals have every reason to expect freedom from future interference with their schemes of plunder and pillage. Then they will loot the treasury of even the canvas sacks in which the coin is now contained and steal the very pins with which tho silver certificates are stuck together. The Credit Mobilier and whisky ring scandals will eink into utter insignificance beside the colossal thievery to be practiced if Ravm and his bashi-bazouks win in the present struggle with Secretary Noble. And tho worst of it is that President Harrison's course regarding the Itaura scandals in the past give every indication that Noble will be defeated now. In that event it will not be "God help the surplus," but "God help the trust funds." The Michigan City Ditpatch says of Harrison Tasker, a negro who was sent to the penitentiary for twenty-one years from this city in ISSfi for a criminal assault upon a white girl, and who was pardoned by Governor Hovey a few days ago: During the whole period of his confinement in the penitentiary Tasker has been more or less obstreperous, and it is no exaggeration to gay that he has had to be punished more frequently than any other inmate. The prison authorities had no intimation that the convict was even Eeeking a pardon, and they were greatly astonished when an absolute and unconditional release was received from Governor Hovey. So far as the records go there was no man in the institution less worthy of clemency than Tasker. The Sentinel has never been disposed to be enptious in its criticisms upon the exercise of the pardoning power, it well knows that many persons, under the antiquated penal system of Indiana, receive sentences disproportionate to their offenses, the result of ingnorance in the jurors or of public clamor. There are frequently circumstances which must plead in behalf of a prieoner with a force which no man of tender heart and fino sensibilities can resist It is always better to err on the side ot mercy than against it, and we believe that many executives have been criticised for the granting of pardons which were altogether creditable to them. But Governor Hovey has granted pardona in a number of case in which there seems to have been no redeeming features. The case of Tasker appears to be one of these. The offense of which he was convicted was an aggravated one, and, if guilty, the punishment accorded him was not excessive. His prison record is bad, and the fellow is evidently a brute. There could have been noadequate Ground for his pardon, unless in the discovery OI facts tending to establish his innocence of the crime for which he was sent to prison or at least to create a strong presumption of it. It would be interesting to know what influences were exerted so successfully in this man's behalf with the governor. A ctrrest dispatch from Chicago reads as follows: Mrs. Emma Paclse. deserted a few weeks sgo by her worthless husband, and evicted Tuesday from her rooms for nonfayment of rent, was Wednesday mornng found lying on a West Side corner suffering intensely. A patrol wagon was called and while on it ahe gave birth to a baby, and both were taken to the county hospital. Isn't there something radically wrong with the constituted order of things when such conditions can be found In the very center of the most representative American community? What is the need to go to famine-stricken Ireland, flood-swept China or. earthquake-shaken Cyprus for suffering to relieve? Isn't it about time that all our efforts toward reforming the world and elevating mankind be expended at home until such conditions as that above shown axe removed 1 11 all the en-

ergy and money and time and study now devoted by the people of America to bettering the condition of savage in far off lan da were for one year turned to the assistance of the distressed at home it is highly probable that the end of the twelemonth would see the human race much farther advanced. Charity begins at home, and it should stay there until its work is finished.

The I'nsxlnc of the Home. A number of exchanges recently have devoted considerable space to advising women to enter the fie!d as inventors; citing many examples of successful inventions which were the product of woman's brain. As soon as lovely woman becomes proficient in this new line of work she will be called upon to invent something to take the place of a home; for the home is fast becoming a thing of the past. Every modern wealthy family hag a "house" or a "residence," but only a few such families have homes. The business man finds his club an ample substitute for a home. Here he takes his midday lunch, though he be but a ten or fifteen ' minute ride from his residence. The club parlor, where he can lounge, smoke, and talk with other men, offer a freedom from restraint which his own richly furnished parlor never can offer. He hunts around for some friend with whom he can dine at a hotel or at the club, and finding him not, heaves a sigh and goes home to dinner. Hero he n la a formal meal served in faultless style. He does not linger long over his dinner. The rush with which he drives his business extends to his meals. There is no happy gathering of the family circle around the mahogany board each one casting off the world and bringing as a zest to the appetite a cheerful countenance and a bright story. He finds instead his wife and daughters fretful and tired by the strain of social life. Most likely his wife, knowing he cannot eacane pours out all her woes concerning tho tbousand-and-one trifles that agonize the mind of the modern housekeeper. Go into any families you like and you will scarcely find one in twenty where tho whole family spend the evening together at home. Dinner over, the son rushes off to PV club or some other "undiscovered country;" the daughters are booked for some evening entertainment to which their mother goes along as a chaperon, and tho father flies back to his office or the club, or drops in at the theater. There is something pathetic in this mad struggle of the American people for money and for pleasure. Every moment must be crowded wi;h excitement. The modern woman devotes her mornings to charitable work, committee meetings and shopping, and her afternoons and evenings to social pleasures, and then she cannot find time enough to accomplish all she wishes. Instead of being the "home-maker" and being found at all times bv the family hearthstone, she announces on her cards that she will be "at home" one certain day in each week. If you call then vou will find her surrounded by a crowd of friends, but if you call on any other day you will not see her at all, but will be greeted by the nurs or a maid instead. If you are passing a friend's house and wish to run in and tell her a bit of news you are met at the door by a eervant and told that rnadame is not at home to callers, or else you are ushered into a drawing-room enveloped in a supernatural gloom which chills you. Here you wait for your friend to dress; then when she does come down you find you are making a formal call, and she is surprised to find that you have forgotten her "at home" day. Many fine residences are simply starting points from which tho families migrate to Florida in tho winter and to Europe in the summer. Very few of the newly married couples go immediately to housekeeping in houses of their own. If they belong to tho wealthy class they hire a suite of apartments in a fashionable flat or board at a hotel. If the yountr man is a clerk and the girl a teacher, bookkeeper or business woman, they steal quietly tothe minister's some evening after working hours, and both go to work as usual the next day. There is no honeymoon and no hive. Both have carefully considered the cost of taking a vacation and decided to wait until they get rich; and, poor deluded mortals, that hippy day never comes. It is a common thing to find members of a family scattered to all parts of tho globe; and men will tell you with an air of pride that "they haven't seen the old lolks for twenty years have almost forgotten how my mother looks." But they will tell you they are good to the old folks ; that they send them a check every Christmas, and also hand over money whenever they write for it With woman, we think, lies the remedy. The woman who marries, or who is married, should consider home first and the world afterward. Home should be the resting place for the bread-winners, and servants should not be left to welcome home members of the family instead of the mother and daughters. A broad education for women need not unfit them for becoming housekeepers, but the results show that it does make them dissatisfied with domestic duties; that they turn from home to clubs and business life, and that the only ties wh'ch now bind the members of a family are tho railroad ties, with their iron bands, linking country with country. The I'rraident I Ilvuponalble. Secretary Noble has made a good but Tery small beginning in the work of cleaning out the pension bureau. Young Rum, who has been removed for embezzlement, never ought to have been in the office. Being there, lie wfl3only following tho example of his father in making all he could out of it. But he was young ytt and had not learned his father's trick of avoiding conflict with the penal laws. If ho had had greater opportunities he .might event ually have equaled, or perhaps excelled, his paternal ancestor in the art of robbing the public and not laying himself liable to prosecution in vulg:r courts of law. But he was making a commendable beginning when his career was cut short by Secretary Noble's order. After this fresh and flagrant scandal it will be interesting to know what the pres ident intends doing abcit the pension office scandals. He certainly cannot claim

J ignorance of them unless he is the most

iarnorant man in America; for every other man knows that tho pension office ii rotten and has bean ever since it has been under the direction of Green B. Racm. Congressman CoorEit clearly demonstrated this during the house investigation last winter, and it took all Czar Reed's power to prevent the condemnatory report being presented to the house. It would seem that the country and tho administration had been long enough scandalized by Racm to induce the president to take action, merely for the sake of saving hi own reputation if nothing else. The conduct of Racm has been the most shameful in the history of American public affairs; it completely over.hadows the corruption of Belknap and Robeson, and stands monumental as an example of official malfeasance. i'resideut Harrison can no longer escape censure in this matter. Tons of printed evidence are at his disposal to prove that Hacm has sold promotions and appointments, turned the office over to the pension sharks and participated in

tho robbery of the country's dependent de fenders. He has compelled clerks to take stock in worthless financial ventures in order to retain their positions or secure advancement, has made rulings to aid the pension sharks upon the payment to himself of large sums of money, and has gone on the witness stand and sworn falsely as to his conduct in the premises. Racm has not only com mitted gross offenses of a public nature but in tho attempt to cover them op he has been guilty of crimes under the vulgar penal law. In the pension office he has been a swindler and oppressor of his clerke, a receiver of bribes and the robber of the country's wards under his direct supervision. He has violated the civil service, the pension and the tenure of office laws. Under nearly all the enactments of congress and the states he is an outlaw. All these things President Harrison knows, and knows well. He knew them months ago. Every time, during his late trip, when ho greeted a delegation of veterans, he knew that he was retaining in oilice a man whose chief aim in life was to despoil those veterans of the money they had earned with their blood and limbs. When he spoke of their services to the country he knew that he wns retaining in office a man who was depriving them of a large share of their reward for those services. Knowing all these things, as he well does. President Harrison can . no longer escape responsibility and he should no longer escape accountability. It is his sworn duty to keep the offices in proper hands and he cannot longer evade that duty. If Racm is still in office when congress meets next December the house should promptly impeach the president. Cleveland's Speech. G rover Cleveland has made many powerful and thoughtful addresses upon public affairs to the people of tho United States, but none more powerful or more thoughtful than that at Buffalo Tuesday night, when he discussed the extravagance cf the last congress. The warning Mr. Cleveland sends forth of tho dangers to a republican government from familiarity with and tolerance of extravagance in public affairs is in the highest degree timely and pertinent. It is truly time to arouse the people from the lethargy into which they havo fallen. A continuance of such extravagance so foreign to the principle of republican governmentcan but lead to the eventual overthrow of even that form. As Mr. Cleveland says: Turn where we will we see the advance of this devouring and destructive creature. Our democratic faith teaches us that the useless exaction of money from the people upon the false pretext of public necessity is the worst of all governmental perversions, and involves the greatest of all dangers to our guarantees of justice And equity. We need not unlearn this les-on to apprehend' the fact that behind such exaction and as its source of existence is found public extravagance. The ex will not be laid at the root of the unwholesome tariff tree with its vicious inequality and injustice until we teach and destroy its parent and support But the growth of public extravagance in these latter days, and its unconcealed and dreadful manifestations, force us to the contemplation of other crimes, of which it is undoubtedly guilty, beside unjust exactions from the people. Our government is so ordained that Its life blood Hows from the virtue and patriotism of our people, and its health and strength depend upon the integrity and laitntulncsa of their public servants If these are destroyed our government, if it endures, wid endure only in name, failing to bless those for whom it was creatod and failing in its mission as an example to mankind. Public extravagance in its relation to inequitaUo tariff, laws not only lavs an unjust tribute upon the people, but is re sponsible lor unfair advantages bestowed upon special and favored interests as the price of partisan support. Thus the exercise of the popular will for the benefit of the country at large is replaced by sordid and selfish motives directed to personal advantage, while the encouragement of such motives in public place for party ends deadens the official conscience. Public extravagance directly distributes gifts and gratuities among the people, whoBe toleration of waste is thus secured, or whose past party services are thus compensated, or who are thus bribed to future party support This makes the continuance of partisan power a stronger motive among public servants than the faithful discharge of the people's trust and sows the seed of contagious cor ruption in the body politic. Tho people of the United States hold Grovek Cleveland in high esteem sim ply because he has such views as those expressed above. "A public office is a public trust" has always been his motto, in office and out of office, and in him the people see a most striking and most pleas ing contrast to the Keeds, Blaines, Mo Kinlkys and Harrisons. Mr. Cleveland' words are not mere idle buncombe for political effect. They express his firm convictions, arrived at after a careful study of the conditions and tendencies of tho times. They are the words of thought and patriotism. No thoughtful man who has studied the situ ation carefully and impartially can fail to agree with the ex-president when he says: The saddest and roost frightful result of public extravagance is seen in the readi ness of the masses of our people, who are not dishonest but only needles, to ac cutom themselves to that dereliction in public placo which it involves. Evidence is thus furnished that our countrymen lire in danger of losing the scrupulous in sistence upon the faithful discharge of duty on the part of their public servants, the

regard for economy and frugality which

belongs to sturdy Americanism, independence which relies upon personal tndeavor, and thelovo of an honest and well-regulated government, all of which lie at the foundation of our free institutions. The danger to American institutions in toleration of this pros public extravagance is neither assumed nor imaginary. It is real and ever present, threatening the very foundations of our government. There can be no safety for a people who permit their servants to recklessly waste the public funds or pervert the proceeds of tax ation to private uses. This reckless public extravagance is well described by Mr. Cleveland when hesavs: It is the most fatal cf all the deadly brood born of governmental perversion. It hides beneath its wings the betrayal of the people's trust and holds powerless in its fascinating glance the peoplo's will and conscience. It brazen! v exhibits todav a bidion dollar congre.-s. But lately a large surplus remained in the people's public treasury alter meeting all expenditures then by no means economical. This con dition was presented to the American people as positive proof that their burden of taxation was unjust because unneces sary ; and yet while tue popular protest is still heard, the harpy of public: extravagance devours the surplus and impudently calls upon its staggering victims to bring still lsrger supplies within the reach of its insatiate appetite. "Taxation only to meet the expenses of the government, economically administered" is the only salvation of the people from the danger to which Mr. Cleveland calls attention. We believe tho people are already convinced of the truth of this assertion and that they have not yet become so indifferent to their dan ?er as to be powerless to throw off the fetters already cast about them. We believe that next year the people will aou6e from their stupor and forever banish from power those who have been engaged in the perversion of the government from its proper functions. We believe also that Grover Cleveland will be the instrument chosen by the people with which to strike a death blow at public extravagance. ET CETERA. Blaink is the only sealskin that Son Russell yearns to hang on the second term fence. JosErn Jefferson and family have already occupied their summer home on the shore of Buzzard's Bay. Not least among the marvels of the presidential tour is the fact that not one of the party has thus far caught a cinder in his eye. Col. John II y and Elijah Hal ford are in London. Mr. Haltord returns almost Immediately, as he came over only for the benefit of the sea voyage. Xev York Hun's Cable Special. The czarewitch during his Indian tour required no less than thirty tongas or carts for his luggage, and about three hundred pairs of ponies to draw the same impedimenta. James Rcsseix Lowell, in declining an invitation to attend the celebration of Browning's birthday in Boston, wrote: "I am at present compelled to forego all, even pleasurable, excitements." Mrs. Varina N. II. Morton, a colored woman residing in Brooklyn, filed a physician's certificate last week. She is the only colored doctor in that city, and perhaps it is safe to say the only colored woman physician in the country. It takes you less time to reach the eleventh story of a new structure nowadays than it took to reach the third floor a few yearsago. When you step into an elevator in a modern building you feel as if you were flaahed through space. Xew York Tribune. The lady who will set the fashion of doing away with the piano lamps, pictures on easles, with the everlasting scarf on top, and the rickety tables in the middle of the floor, with marble statuette underneath glass, covers, will be a benefactor to the race. Decorator and Furnisher. Senator Edmonds, who has gone homo to Vermont for the summer, says: "I sha'l not bid farewell to Washington at this time. It is true we have rented our house for two years, but we expect to spend a eood deal of time in that city every winter. My law business will call me thither." It is rumored that the versatile kaiser is about to pose as a 'pietist." He is on the point of making a "retreat," so it is said, to the historic caetle of Wartburg, where Luther distinguished himself by hurling an ink pot at the devil's head. Here William II. will shut himself up in strict retirement for a day or two, hoping possibly to emulate Luther's achievement. Rose Hawthorne thinks that one reason why Ralph Waldo Emerson smiled was in order to distinguish himself from the American eagle, which he resembled to a remarkable degree. "Go to the cage of eagles in Central Park in New York," she adds, "and you will find that the hoariest bald-beaded monarch there will be the image of Emerson who does not emilo. It is not surprising to find that a man of such kind impulses as Bishop-elect Brooks should become the victim of mis placed bcmevolence. While walking up Beacon-st in Boston one evening he was attracted to a stubby urchin who was trying in vain to pull the door-beli of a house near Charles-st Advancing to the door. Dr. Brooks soized tit's bell-kDob The urchin, whose eyes followed the movements of the "big man," retreated meanwhile to the bottom of tho steps Giving the bell a vigorous pull, the emi nent divine turned to the urchin, who lm mediately shouted ''Now scoot!" and then beat a hasty retreat, leaving the doctor to make his escape as best he could. TnE aged widow of Jouvin, the great glovemaker, died at Grenoble, France, a few days ago. That famous manufacturer has been honored by his fellow-townsmen with a statue. Jouvin'" most important achievement was the invention of a ma chine for cutting out leather gloves, and caused quite a revolution in glove manu facture by introducing the thumb with only one seam. At present thousands of men and women are employed by tho Mai eon Jouvin, and when the founder of the firm died he was possessed of several millions, and the fame of his gloves spread over the whole of the civilized world. May 8 a daughter was born to James Hooker Hamersley, a well-known broker of New York. The child had the proverb ial silver spoon in its mouth, and yet it is unfortunate because of its sex. If it had been a boy the child would have been the heir to the large fortune of the duchess of Marlborough. The duchess enjoys only the income from the estate of her former husband, Louis Hamersley, during her life, for by his will all the property at her death will go to the eldest son of J. Hooker Hamersley, or if there is no such son, to various charities which were named. For this reason the sex of the child was of more importance than la ordinarily the case.

SUNDAY THOUGHTS!

orsMORALS MANNERS T A CXEHOTMAN. Although as we stated last week, this is not a theologiral age, current events signify that it is interested in theology. In religion as everywhere els?, unrest is in the air. Ours seem likely to go into history as the age of unsettleinent. The hu man mind is as migratory nowadays as the human race was in "Auld Lang Sine." The citation last Monday by the presby tery of New York of Dr. Briggs lor heresy, and the voicing of views similar to, or more ultra than, his in various denom inational quartern, followed by pro tests and resignations, is proof of tho transitional character of the decade. Scientific theology should be studied. Sound knowledge should be fostered. Theological scholarship needs to be deep as well as broad. It ought to comprehend science and philoeophy, so that it may be equipped to meet materialism, positivism' agnosticism and general ' skepticism. Moreover, the departments of sociology and political economy wait to be annexed in order to precipitate abstract theology into concrete religion. Thus the theological seminary would become the nexus, extending from heaven to earth. 'Tis a significant fact that science and philosophy, no less than theology, have been popularized. Today learning no longer hides in the convent nor secludes itself in the palace. She comes out into the street joins hands with the multitude and cushions the peasant. Our astronomy looks at but does not dwell in the stars, as one hath said. It serves navigation and helps to stake out boundary lines. Our chemistry is not the secret of the alchemist, striving to change base metals into gold, but Liebig .with his hands full of blessings lor every farmer. Precisely so we have brought religion down from the clouds, where we don't live, to the earth, where we do. The diffusion of knowledge and the practical tone of it these are characteristic distinctions of the nineteenth century. All the more, therefore, does it become important that our culture should be thorough. Diluted knowledge is fud of danger. It tends to conceit, and terms with perversions. The antidote for half knowledge is whole knowledge. -The disquietude of the day is largely duo to a lack of information. Men do not know what they believe or why. As in nature, the thunder-storm is the voice of nature's unrest, when the equipoise of her elements is disturbed, and she seeks to regain the wonted repose of harmony; so in the moral world the current disatijf action finds its true interpretation in a superficial knowledge and an unintelligent faith. Heresy is unripe faith the green apples of theology. If heretics knew more and knew deeper, they would believe more, and save themselves and tho church much sorrow. Hence, as the most timely of suggestion, we urze our readers to hear and heed the admonition of Solomon: "With all thy getting, get understanding." lord Bacon in a memorable passage says: "A little philosophy inclined man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringoth men's minds about to religion.' In theology, therefore, preeminently, A little learning U a dangerous thing; Prink deep, or mote not the Fleriao rprlne; Th.re shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking laiftuly sobers us again. . The animal in man is strong and masterful. The angel in our nature ought to dominate. As a fact, however, as Pascal has pointed out, the angel in man lies under the dirty uplifted paw of the animal In him. An eminent Swiss physician, writing for a socialistic journal, Xeue Zeit, is quite orthodox on this subject and confesses that by nature and by training the majority of men show little ability to govern their animal propensities, even in normal situations, "while in unfavorable circumstances they give unbridled license to pnssions; that is they become, almost of necessity, the victims of every kind of excess." Nevertheless, as another distinguished thinker reminds us, the normal condition of the spirit of man is one of communion with Deity. And in the feverish desires, the fretting cares and toils and hopes and anxieties of life, we may hear the unconscious mnrmurines of a nature that has lost its true level and is seeking it in vain; and so in tho wilder storms of human passion that sometimes burst forth we have the imitation of disunion from God in this fierce disharmony within or among ourselves. Had man been born only for the things of time tmd sense he had been content and happy among them. The crawling worm is haunted by no reminiscence of the skies, nor is the born beggar's heart embittered by the recollection of better days. But to man, ill at ease and consciously degraded, the essence of his misery is the latent conviction that he has fallen beneath himself. It is possible, indeed, for the soul to reach a spurious rest to sink into the unreal tranquility of hardened impenitence in which it says with Milton's Satan, "Evil, be thou my good." But so long as the soul has not sunk thus low its very restlessness and misery are at onco the tradition of a nobler and happier past and the prophesy of a possible future nobler and happier still. How potent the spirit of the age is may be inferred from a proverb, which, strange to say.waa made by the Arabs, that "a man is not so much the child of his father, as the child of the age in which he lives. A foreign writer describes a recent funeral in an atheistic cemetery, owned by a free religious congregation in Berlin. He paints the niotloy crowd of attendantesome well-dressed, others in their work-a-day suits, without a collar, unshaven and smoking cheap cigars. He indicates the utterly dreary and empty platitudes of the speaker who consigns the deceased to "a rest followed by no life." He then adds: 1 was struck with the fact that quite a number of tboe present took off their hats as the coffin was lowered and offered a sil;nt prayer. Still more was I impressed with the religious insti net and longing for immortality revealed by the graveyard itself. One w ould expect that the atheistic sentiment of the owners would be expressed on the tombstones. On the contrary I found many crosses. Amon; numerous symbols of hope and eternal life, such as are common in Christian burial places, I also saw many representations of an open bible, and on about half of the stones I found the inscription, "Here rests in God," much less frequently "Here rests in peace," and still less often, 'Here rests," followed by the name of the departed. Th re were also many tombstones with verses expressive of faith and hope. One speaks of the Creator taking the beloved to Ilimwlf; another aflirms that what we love abides forever: while , reunion beyond death, the life in heaven.

the mercy of God and the career of the Christian on earth are mentioned here as in Christian cemeteries. What a testimony to the need of religion, and to the power cf faith in the great emergencies and deep extremes of life! Atheism in life is dreary enough, but atheism in a cemetery is thus sr-own to be impossible. The bosom of free religion itself rebels f-gainst it. Here is further proof that the heart is a better logician

than the bead. Tho diminutive chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. Dr. Johnson. Measure every man with his own measure. Asiatic 1'rorerd. How many praiseworthy enterprises which have been crowned with the blessings of all nations, would never have been formed nor accomplished if courage and perseverance of their authors had yielded to the claims cf opposition produced by ignorance and intolerance. JIfinrirh Hchotte. He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience which feels nothing and a dumb conscience which says nothing, ia in as insensible a condition as a man can bo on this side of hell. Patrick Henry. So:ne have contended that man's moral sense may be the result of education. But to this it may bo replied that were there no moral nature to which the education appeals, no amount of training would produce tho moral result. A'. A. Ridford. Coascience in a wicked man is like the : captain of a vessel in a mutiuy; hen bound, and cannot rule, but he protests. , If". Harri. T ii I m ii ; I ! iu iue moral worm mere is noiiung nnpossible if we can bring a thorough will to it Man can do everything with himself; but he must not attempt to do too much with others. Ion Jlumboldt. The law of heredity, which we have just begun to study and understand, contains within itself (to use the phrase made famous by Prof. Tyndall) "the promise and potency of life." This is th'3 realm of germs and beginnings. Character is often fashioned pre-natally. 'lis taiated with predispositions toward vice, or divinely biased toward virtue, before conception. An authority divides heredity into the following branches : 1. Direct heredity ; the child resembles its parents. 2. Reversional heredity ; the child resembles its grandparents. 3. Collateral heredity; the child resembles its uncle or aunt. 4. Co-equal heredity; the members of the two sexes are on a large average about equal. 5. Pre-marital heredity; the child of a second or third marriage resembles a former husband. 6. Pre-natal heredity; the child's disposition and character are powerfully affected by influences which have powerfully affected the mother prior to its birth. 7. Initial heredity; the child is affected by the temporary mood of the parents at the time oi their becoming such. It was a good reply of Tlato to one w ho murmured at his reproving him for some small habit: "Habit is no small matter. A habit of life frequently alters the natj ural inclination either to good or to evil." In a letter of Dickens' sold in London j the other day, Victor Hugo and bis wife j are thus sketched : "I was much struck ' by Victor IIu20 himself, who looks like a cenius, as he certainly is, and is very interesting from head to "foot. His wi.'e is a handsome woman, with flushing black eyes, who looks as if she nvght poison hi breakfast one morning when the humor seizes her." The principle of morality in government has recently won a notable victory in the British house of commons. The opium trade is to be discontinued. Everybody knows that this infamous traffic has been enforced by England at the point of the bayonet. A little more than a quarter of a century azo ehe waged a cruel war airainst China, the eecond of its kind, to compel the celestials to put the detestable stuff in their pipe and smoke it Now she declares the trade in opium to bo wrong and decrees its abandonment. Truly, as Galileo sai i, "E pur ei muove" onward and upward. The statistics given out by Superintendent of Immigration Weber show that Italy is now leading Europe in the number of her emigrants to tho United States. Here is the table for the month of March : Italy, 7,8U); German-, T,087; Great Britain (including Ireland), 4.3S ; Huncary, 3.580; Austria. 3,484; Russia, 2,!L'3 ; total, 2H.333. The Russian contingent i composed of the lowest and most clannish grade of Jews, who "left their country for their country's good." The Hungarians are but a desree less desirable. The Italians are likely to prove an increasing source of political and moral inflammation. The presence amonjst us of these heterogenous hordes, who may be melted into homogeneity in order to pacify the present and secure the future, lays upon the Christian church a vital duty and sets before it a great opportunity. The opportunity offered is the chance of currying on the work of foreign missions here at home. j The duty is the unfaltering proclamation otthe law of Christ God's fatherhood, man's brotherhood and the golden rule. If the church 19 recreant, Macauiey" predicted Goths and Yandala may soon appear. AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. Calibration of Ita STot .Fifth Annlver. aary a.t New York. New York, May 13. The American bible society celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary today. Gen. Joshua A. Chamberlain, ex-governor of Maine, presided. A large attendance of clergymen was present among them some from Great Britain and Canada. An interesting and pathetic incident took place during the meeting. Of the sixty delegates who were present at the organization of the society seventy-five years azo, but two were living on Monday. They were the lie v. J. 1. Wickham of Vermont and the Rev. Dr. Vermily of this city. The former wrote the secretary a personal letter last week and enclosed a program of the anniversary exercises. On Monday a letter was received from Mrs. Wickham, who explained that her husband was unable to use his pen, but had dictated to her the letter. The letter was reminiscent and went back to the time of the society's organization in 1S1G. At the meeting today a telegram was received announcing the death of Mr. Wickham. The other surviving member, the Kev. Dr. Thomas Efrmilye, was present at the meeting tonight m Chlckcring hall and pronounced the benediction. Two JIcKlnlay Examples. IRtpler Journal. J The foreign farmer who dares to hitch up his team and haul hay to this country to interfere with the products of our hay farm, must psySlper ton tariff duty. 'Rah for McKinley. The snoozer who attempts to impose on our farmers by importing foreign straw will be yanked out of 30 per cent advalorem tax by the McKinley law for his impudence iu hauling European straw over here to glut our American straw market

IGNORING TRE BOYCOTT.

THE IFPORT 13 NOW A DEAD LETTER Complication tt AQalra Arising from Aeept"nee of I'nion PmcIAq Tickets Ma th Alton-No Alton Tick. ta 11st liean Kefutd. New Yor.K, May 17. That the boyectt ' o; the eastern railroa is against the Chicago & Alton would prove an ignominious failure has long been taken for granted, but the board of rulings has continued to protest that nearly all of the original sixty companies which fiprnei tho death warrant against commissions were maintaining a solid front. The Sun has said that several of the companies, after issuing the order to their trainmen to boycott the tickets and bairgape oi the Alton passengers, issued a second ordr quietly annulling the first, and directing their trainmen not to disturb such people. There is now evidence that every one of the trunk lines, except possibly the I'ennsylvania nnl New York Central, is ignoring the board of rulings. In other words the boycott is a dead letter, but Messrs. Blancbard, Goddard, Farmer and Donald will probah y not declare it off until cold weather comes. The example that follows looks as if a bad blundwr had been corumitted and probably two of the companies are liable for damages. Mr. Louis Seckel, the general agent of the Equitable life assurance society at Denver, nnd his daughter left that city on May 7 for New York on the Union Pacific, They had secured staterooms on the steamship Columbia of the Hamburg-American line, which sailed last Thursday for Berlin. Mr. Seckel was going to Germany for his bjalth. The Union Pncific agent at Denver gave them coupon tickets leading over the Chicago & Alton to Chicago and thence over the Grand Trunk and West hore roads ta New York. The Grand Trunk and Wes-t Hiore roa ls publicly claim to be boycotting the Alton by order of the board o rulings. They were a so ordered to boycott the Union Pacific and any other com. pany that continued to deal with the Alton. The coupon ticket issued by thi Union Pacific bore on the stub part of it the phrase, "on account of the Chicago fc Alton, Chicago A irand Trunk, Grand Trunk and West Shore rai ways," and even after the Union Pacific and Chicago A Alton coupons had been torn off it was as much an Alton ticket as ever. If tho boycott had been in forc, the first Grand Trunk conductor out of Chicago should have refused to accept the tickets. The several Grand Trunk conductors punched and repunched the tickets and made no complaint as Mr. Seckel rode on toward Butlalo. At Buffalo their sleeper was attached to a West hore train. None of the conductors on this road objected to tha tickets, but they treated them like any other tickets. Mr. ckel and bisdaughter readied New York on Sunday li5i, Without a suspicion that there was a loycott in force, and ihey had a mighty narrow escape from being thrown off the train. As u matter of fact the force of detectives employed by the Alton road had not succeeded in finding a sing e case where one of its tickets Led leen refused. Mr. Seckel called at the baggage office at the foot of Forty gecond-st lor his bag uau as soon m he arrived, but it Lad not come on that train. He called the next day and the West Slr re ollicials still knw nothing of it. Then he went to the local otfice of the Union Pacific and the general eastern aent telegraphed tor information to all the junction points a!ong the line between Denver and Weekawken. Kmal'y, he suspected that the boycott had gjne off at half cock, and thut some bacgace master had been a little more conscientious thaa the trainmen, or that a baggage master had forgotton the subsidiary order not to boycott any one. Such was the case. The Grand Trunk baggagemen did not care, but a West fcdiore bugragenian at Bu(!a o did. When be camn across the bras check with th initials C. d A. on it he nailed it on the spot. The Grand Trunk had to take the trunk back and it stood ixx the storage room at Butialo while its owner was in New York worrying about it and much inconvenienced. Mr. Seckel and bis daughter bad a few things in their grips but they had to buy many articles of clothing. The Union Pacific agent had the truck sent on from Butfalo by express and it reached here on Friday night It c.imo over the West Shore, it is said, which is boycotting Alton baggage. The Alton paid the express charges, but probably they will come out of the West Shore sooner or later. Meanwhile Mr. Seckel nnd missed the steamship which sailed on Thursday, nnd he wa.i worked up about it on account of the disappointment. He applied at the office of the steamship agents to pet tho tickets changed but the agents did not eeent inclined to grant tno favor. Mr. Seckel knew Carl Schurz, who is a director of the company, and the lat'er used his influence to get the tickets changed to next Thursday's boat. Mr. Seckel does not care much now whether he gets left or not next Thursday. He is interested in the railroad a'lair and he is goimz to see it out it ho has to stay all summer. He consulted a law ver nnd swore out an Affidavit. He is ! modest in his demandts. All that he cares for, he told a Sun reporter yesterday, was that the company, which is liable, should pay the hotel and miscellanoous expenses tiiat they have contracted during the time they have boon delayed. He estimates them at 815 a day or 150. This includes several articles of apparel which they bad, to buy because they did not have tha trunk. They were at a mo lest hotel yesterday but will go to the Fifth-aye. hotel tomorrow. If the board of rulings takes no action in the matter it will be a tacit admission, tho Alton people say, that the boycott if dead. ' Ha Wat Miataken. Cbicatn Tribune Hc "I know. Miss Kajones, that it looks like great presumption for me to speak of love to you. I have neither youth nor good looks. I am poor, uneducated, and have no influential friends. I h.iv nothing that can attract the admiratiou of a young lady." She "You are mistaken, Mr. Whack Mer, I admire your magnificent nerve." ed i.f KoiMtnT. Rotten 3e&eon. Van Twlller "Seems to me, Hammerhard, you're fitting down to a pretty craggy lunch." Hammerhard "Well, yes. My wife's giving a luncheon today flowers, strawberries, terrapin, quail, black Hamburg grapes and peaches all the luxuries and impossibilities of the season, and I'm doing my best to square the account" Th Dat Ila(t to Hold Detroit Free Trtu. Howard "I didn't get home till late last nivht." Richard "What sort of a hand did yon hold?" Howard "Just the nicest little hand you evr saw. It belonged to old man Goldrock'a only daughter."