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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1891 TWELVE PAGES.

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teT THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. "6. E. MORSS. President. Xstaxta at tU Pottoffles at IndUnpoli aa itcosA dau matter. 1 TERMS PER YEAIU Csgle popr (Inrariably In AdTanoe.).......... 91 00 TTc aik democrats to bear in mind and select thMr (n itt paper whr they com to take aubscripticcs and make up cluba. Amenta Biaklsr tip cluba and for any information tetflred. Add TliE tNDlA APOUS SENTINEL Iadianapolia, ind. tw a m WEDNESDAY. JUNE 17. 1S01. TWELVE PAGET TO BROWN COUNTY READERS. A subscriber to The Indiana State Sentinel in Brown county has won The Sentinel's prize of One Hundred. Dollars in Gold for the best guess on the Indiana census. The money will be paid over -to the lucky man at the court house in Nashville next Saturday, June 20, at 2 o'clock p. m. ?There will be a Public Meeting, Cwith speeches, etc. Every subscriber to The State Sentinel in Brown county is requested to be preseht at the Nashville meeting and bring his family, friends and neighbors with him. TCI Will Positively Be Awarded This Week. See the Next 'Indiana State Sentinel" For Pictures and Sketches of the Lucky Winners. Before the next issue cf The Indiana .-State Sentinel the prizes offered some months g or the best guesses on the results of the census in Indiana -will be in the hands of the lucky persons. These prizes are : 1. One hundred dollars in gold. 2. A fine bicycle; value, $3o. 3. A McCormlck mower ; value, $65. 4. A Standard typewriter ; value, $30. Three of these prizee Trill go to Indiana Subscribers and one to an Illinois subscriber. Pictures and sketches of the lucky men will be printed in our next iesue. It will probably not be possible to award the prize for the best guess on the census of the United States for pome weeks yet as the final official figures are not yet known." The republican dole-Democrat remarks that "in the event that Harbison and Cleveland shall again be the opposing candidates for president the latter will have one advantage over his competitor, to-wit: Exemption from the burden of a eon with a hair-trigger mouth and an arid Intellect Ex-Senator Wale Hampton pays that Mr. Cleveland still holds the hearts oi the people of the South, though they have Cot all liked his utterances on the Film question. It is possible that his silver letter may injure him in the convention, but the senator thinks he will be the democratic nominee. Efiiiifo of the crowded condition of our four insane hospitals the Evansville Journal asks: "What's the matter, anyhow, with our people? Are they all going crazy? It seems so. What with sensational religion, spiritualism, speculation and fast living, the whole country -will have to be roofed over for a vast insane asylum. The people of Indiana have reason to be thankful for that beneficent provision of their constitution which lirait3 legislative cessions. The Illinois legislature, which convened about the time our own legislature met last January, has just adjourned. The Illinois lawmakers are in session about half the time. The people of our sister slate are to be congratulated. Alvin P. Hovey seems to be laboring tinder the impression that it is the fiat of the governor which gives potency to the acts of a legislature. An a matter of fact the governor's proclamation adda nothing to the force of the acts. It is merely a certificate that the acts have been distributed according to law, and in the event that a governor should refuse to make fuch a certificate the laws would unquestionably be in force from and after the date of the Cling of the last receipt from county clerk, which would be shown by the records in the office of the secretary of state. Governor IIovet has done a good many ridiculous things since he assumed his present office, but his last proclamation caps the climax of absurdity. The Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin announces that the great lock factory in that city, employing 275 workmen, has determined to withdraw from New England and move its entire establishment to Roanoke, Va. This involves," it is said, "a probable withdrawal of population from Norwich of from 1,000 to 1,200 tax-payers, consumers and good citizens, whose places it will not be easy to supply." The Bulletin says that the company removes its works so that it can get cheaper supplies of pig iron, brui and coal. Norwich is in the district which Mr. David A. Wells contested for congress last year. Mr. Well, In his canvass, told the people of the district that the result of tbe McKinley bill would be the removal of their great industries to other sections of the country, where they wonjd ant chsao

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were not for tho protective tariff they could get their materials as cheaply as in Pennsylvania, Virginia, or tbe centers of the ir.etal industry in Europe. The people did not believe Mr. Wells' predictions, or at all events they did not send him to congress. But his predictions are being fulfilled sooner, probably, than he expected them to be, and the people of Norwich, having bad the satisfaction of "standing by the McKinley bill," are now compelled to pay the penalty. They are getting a most impressive illustration of the beauties of McKinleyiem. Foreign Trade and Itectproctty. Mr. Franklin MAcYr.Aon, one of the great merchants of Chicago and an accomplished and scholarly gentleman, recently read a brilliant paper before the Sunset club of that city entitled "Foreign Trade and Reciprocity," which is published in the June number of lhat sterling periodical, Bedford's Magazine, The paper is brief, but contains a treat deal of food for thought, and is especially happy in its characterization of the latest attempt of of the high taxers to mislead tbe American people. It is full of keen thrusts at the reciprocity humbug and fairly bristles with clever epigrams. In crisp, pithy sent-nces Mr. MAcVsann punctures one after another of the pophistries by which the reciprocity nostrum is sought to be imposed UDon the American people aa a panacea for their economic woes, and his well-turned and neatly phrased paragraphs are eo many shots fired at the very citadel of the monopoly fortress with a precision of aim which insures their effectiveness. "Reciprocity," says Mr. MacVkagit, "sounds well, and is proposed with a certain theatrical effect; but it is illogical, not very moral and exceedingly oppressive in intent ; utterly superficial and hopelessly impoesiblo in plan ; and, as an answer to the Lightening aspirations of this expanding nation, petty beyond measure." It is illogical, says Mr. MacVeagh, because it "undermines the very foundations of protection. It undertakes to extend ita area but in doing so it surrenders all of protection's intellectual clai.ns. These claims are that it is possible, profitable and the only wisdom for our nation to live within itself; and that mutual foreign commerce is contraband in peace and war. When therefore, we quit our isolation, or admit the necessity of free trade with other nations, even if they scarcely count, we admit the impossibility of our system and give up whatever made it an intelltctua proposition." This, he thinks, might explain the reluctance of tbe McKinleyites to follow Mr. Blaine, for reciprocity would be but the first halting-place, the firdt refuge, in the retreat of a beaten system." Mr. MacVeagh declares that reciprocity "abandon what is left of the moralities of protection. Better," he says, "for protection to go down with the old flag flying. It must, in any event, soon pass away. Lot us hope for the honor of the country that it may pass away while there still bnr:eis about it some suggestion of a disinterested theory, some of ita old pretentions to patriotism. Its memory might thrn have something of the happy fortune of its medie val prototype. There having been a subtle something in that age when tariffs were levied by tbe barons of tho Khine, which relieved the barons' conduct of the external aspect of robbing, tho ruing of their castles have come down to us touched by the forgiving lights of romance." Reciprocity, Mr. MacVeagh admits, "cathces the ear. Tho word has a liberal meaning. But there are two kinds of reciprocity liberal reciprocity, meant to help the people, and protection reciprocity, meant to help the protectionists; genuine reciprocity, which would make goods cheaper, and this kind of reciprocity, which would mnko goods dearer. This kind seeks new markets for our high-priced goods, and would thus prevent them from becoming cheap in our own country. It is full of tricks, and is Kim ply a bribe for South American nations to lend themselves to the support of our tottering system an attempt to enlist southern mercenaries, Latin Hessians, to aid our inadequate force to keep down the rising liberties of tbis people." The scheme mut fail, Mr. MacVeagh pays, for two reasons: "because it is an attempt to make water run up hill, and because it is too late" lie shows how it is an attempt to make water run up hill : It must be remembered that our farm products are not in the question; they need no reciprocity of courpe, for they a - ready mingle with all tho farm products of the world. But our protect-d manufacturers cannot compete; and it is the? high-priced goods that we propose to t-ub-stitute for the low-priced goods of Europe, not by competition, but by hocus-pocus. That is our task. Is it not to make water runup hi'l? Is it practicable?? Would you lik to nndertake this job of hocuspocusing tbe South Americans? And can we also induce these nations for the sake of this no-advantage, for tbe sake of the privation of having only one ccat where they might have two, to voluntarily isolate themselves from the trade centers and the money markets and the civilization of Europe? This, too, would have to follow, because no respectable treaty making power would consent to make a treaty inferior to ours. Can we hope to have them deny themselves England, France, Germany and their mother countries, all to help us to bolster up our troubled protection? Strange as it may sound, it is literally true that the South Americans could have no motive for all these heavy pecuniary sacrifices and privations, and for all the dreary isolation of their lives, except that of benevolence toward our benevolent oligarchy. If there ever was a time when they might have received something back, it is now too late. For what under the pun have we left to offer them in return for all this suffering and self-dt-nial except tbe rewards of a future life? hat ia there left for us to reciprocate with? Ieligbtful as it may be to pparate ourselves still further from the nations tht are most civilized, and choose as our intimates thepe simpler na tions which are nearer to nature, it is too late. We have nothing left to reciprocate with, having alnndy taken our tariff off all the fw thing tho South Americans have to sell except a certain cheap f rude of wool; and if our Iatin friends will wait a short year or two we shall, without the slightest expense to them, take the tariff off that, too. Our infant wool man ufactures are already in full try after that particular lleece. The scheme, even if practicable, is too late to save protection. The protectionists are divided among themselves. "Many protected manufacturers are weary of protection altogether. In a little while the politicians and editors are likely to be the only protectionists left. The cry for free wool and free ore and free coal romin? uo

from the very inner circle of protectionism proves that protectionist reciprocity has come too late." It is too late, also, because "the gammon of high prices has had its day, with its occult theories that the more you pay for goods the better you are off," and, finally, because "that other influential delusion that protection must be maintained because Lincoln freed the slaves has begun to fade." The closing passages of this excellent paper are replete with the eloquence of truth and glow with the warmth of profound conviction. The enlightened moralty and the broad humanity which are at once tbe essence and inspiration of the great economic gospel of commercial freedom have rarely found such forceful and comprehensive expression aa in these few lines. We quote: But why should this great, young, abounding nation, tbis favorite heir to all the riches of nature, and the chosen apostle of freedom why should it be re

strained by the narrowness, the selfishness, and the isolation of protection, or waste its diznitv and forget its mission in schemes of petty reciprocity? It is right .11 to DreaK aown our ninese wan, oi course ; but we do not need reciprocity for that. The greatest material achievement that now lies before us tho climax of our national strongth is the achievement of a world-wide diversified commerce ; but we need no treaties for that. Take the taxes from our ships and set them free to accept the favoring winds ot heaven, and take the taxeB from our goods, and wherever there is a sea there will be our flag, and wherever there is a port there will be our commerce. In such commerce there abide the untold riches of tho future ; and there abides, what is far more to be desired than the turn-total of riches, their juster distribution. But there is something in such a commerce more interesting than it's wealth. Its profounder interests rest in this: that its direction is toward the only adequate companionship for our great people, which is tbe entire company of civilized nations, and toward one of the lofty and fixed ideals of humanity the perfectly free and habitual intercourse of civilized mankind. And to this intercourse, in spite of prejudice and political tradition, the nobler tendencies of nature and progress are urging us forward. TLe rebellious enterprise and invention oi man are rapidly eliminating time and tpace, those chief supports to the political obstacles which prevent tho friendship of nations. Nay, ail the untrammeled forces of nature and life, whether simple or complex steam and electricity tho disinterested drift of intellect, tbe spontaneous impulses of sentiment, the thirst for knowledge, the noble impatience with the provincial, all which etirred the Greeks to overrun the boundaries of Greece; all which justified the conquests of Borne; all which let light into the dark ages through the rifts broken by the crusades ; all which burst the bonds of custom and flooded the world with the light of the fifteenth century; all which now constitute the equalizing and fraternizing spirit of democracy are bending to the task of bringing mankind into free communion. And sooner or later we shall all know each other, help each other, trade with each other, and learn from each other. And out of the natural unrestricted companionship of the world there will come to all a prosperity impossible to a system oi repression, a civilization impossible to a system of isolation, and a manhood imp'o?ible to those who deny the brotherhood of man. Protection and Prices, A local correspondent sends the Louisville Commercial the following, which that paper takes so seriously that it has kept it standing for several days: I cannot name or find a person who can name one article manufactured out of a product of this country by a well-stab-lished American industry that costs the consumer as much money as the eame article cost before the duty was imposed on the imported article. If any farmer or other consumer will name the article and have it published in a paper in this state that advocates free trade or a tariff for revenue only, and I fail to name fifty of these articles that cost less money than they cost before or at the time the duty was imposed, I wiil give the person naming tho article a So hat. This is not such a generous offer as it eeems. There is no doubt that there has been a marked downward tendency in prices all the world over during the past thirty years, and that the protective tariff has not entirely counteracted this tend ency in the United States. The causes of the general decline in prices are numer ous and obvious. The principal one is invention. Ine extensive in troduction of labor eaving machin ery has enormously cheapened the cost of production of most commodities, with the natural result of reducing the prices of such commodities to consumers. This has not been confined to the United States', but has been co-extensive with civilization itself. Many other things have operated to tho same end. Tho discovery of potentialities in natural forces, before unsuspected, and their effective utilization ; the opening up of new coun tries; the revolution in the world's system cf transportation, bringing countries and peoples, once remote, close together, almost annihilating spare and distance and promoting tho interchange of products which it is the object of protective tariffs to obstruct; the marvelous increase of popular intelligence, with ita more than equivalent increase in the skill and effi ciency of labor these are some of the more important of the many agencies which have figured in tho cheapening process. Now we will give the Kentucky gentleman an $8 hat we go him $3 better if he will name one article of general use which has declined in price in the United States under a protective tariff which has not declined, in an equal or greater de gree, in other countries during the same perioo. u natever commodities are cheaper in this country than they were in IS'50 aro also cheaper in England and France and Germany than tbey were in 1800. It may be laid down too as a general rule to which there aro no ex ceptions unless due to local or temporary causes the nature ot which is obvious that articles of American production directly affected by the tariff have not declined in price as much aa similar articles of European production have declined. In other words the American consumers of protected articles are paying regularly higher prices for these articles than European consumers are paying for simi lar articles, whether produced in this country or abroad. This Is a fact which cannot be gainsaid, and it effectually dis poses of the transparent pretense of the Kentucky protectionist tit at the tariff has reduced pricea to American consumers. Whatever reductions have taken place have been in spite of, and not because of, protection. They have occurred because natural laws are stronger than statute laws. They have occurred in the products

of unprotected industries as well as in

these of protected industries. Farm products as well as manufactured goods average cheaper than they did thirty yearsago. The only commodities which cost as much now as thev did then are those of which the processes of production have not ben cheapened by some or all oi tne agenriy we have named, or others of like tendency. Misinformation About the School I Boole Law. Epwin Ginx of Boston, member of the firm of Gixn & Co., which has just been awarded the contract for certain text books under the Indiana law, writes tbe New York Evening rest that "in Indiana the books, perhaps, have come cheaper to the pupils under the contract system, but it ia generally admitted that, as a whole, they are not equal in qua'ity, and, undoubtedly, if the extra amount paid to officials for handling the same could be aided to the price of tbe books, the cost would be even more than formerly." It so happens that what Mr. Ginn says "is generally admitted in Indiana" is not admitted by anybody, so far s we are aware. On the contrary, it is universally admitted that the books now in use are fully as good as those which were formerly sold at more than double the prices now paid. The other statement made by Mr. Ginx is equally wide of the truth. The extra amount paid to the offi cials for handling tbe books cuts little figure. It ie. indeed, a mere trifle compsred with the total expenditure for books, and making liberal allowance for this item, the school books furnished under the existing contract cost tho people less than one-half aa much as they paid for similar books under the old svstem. Mr. Ginn ought to come out of his New England shell for a time and mingle with the people ot Indiana, if he really wants to know how they regard the echool book law. Especially should he do this in view of the fact that he has seen fit to of fer proposals under this law which have been accepted and contracts awarded him. It seems to us that it is poor taste, to say the least, for Mr. Gisn to attack the law under which he has been awarded contracts to supply books for a period of fiveyears ; to criticise the offi cials who awarded these contracts and to question the wisdom and intelligence of the people who passed the law. The success of that measure is universally conceded in the state, and no better proof of it could be desired than the fact that Ginn &. Co., who two years ago refused to make a bid, have now agreed to furnish books at 25 and 60 cents respectively, whic'a they are selling to dealers in other stato9, according to their published lists, at 45 cents and $1.10. Surely a law which gives the people of Indiana books at about half the price3 which the people of other states pay for the same books cannot be unsatisfactory' to them. The fact is that no law was ever enacted in this state which proved so universally popular as the school book law. After a two years' trial the last legislature, without a dissenting vote, passed a law extending th9 contract syptera. Not a voice was raised in that body in criticism of the law, which was originally pawed only after a desperate struggle. There is no longer any visible opposition in Indiana to the school book law. Mr. Ginn also 6ays: Two years ago. when Indiana adopted the law fixing a maximum price which the state would pay for echool books, no reputable publisher would bid, for they all felt that these prices would befoie long destroy the business; and if they phould be established in the state of Indiana they would be tbe basis of prices for the rest of tho country. Today many of the best books in the market are offered to the state of Indiana, although it is fair to say that tho prices of some of tbem have been raised somewhat in the last year. We submit that this is the best possible evidence that the law is a grand success. Two years ago, as Mr. Gins says, the old line publishers would not bid. Now he declares that "many of the best books in the market aro offered to the state of Indiana." This is true, and it is a complete vindication of the law. Ths Ribing Ftorm In England. Tbe London cables say that the storm arising around tbe prince of Wales in con sequence of the revelations in the baccarat case is fast growing in intensity, and that it threatens to endanger his succession to tbe throne, if not the very existence of the monarchy. The great middle class, which is really the controlling force in England, is up in arms against his royal highness. The recent disclosures have brought not only his personality, but the system of government of which he is the visible representative, to tho sharpest test of public opinion they have ever been called upon to meet. The common sense of the English people tells them that the very cxistenco of a throne and a monarch and an heir apparent in a country like theirs is a ridiculous anachronism. Take this prince, for instance. As an individual he is a nonentity. Notwithstanding the advantages he has enjoyed, half the jockeys who had mounts at Ascot last week are more than his peers in intelligence, lie is an amiable fellow cnouth, easy going, tolerant and freehanded, but without moral balance or mental strength. Ho is dull intellectually and apparently without ambition or other care than for the passing pleasures of the hour. A gambler, a libertine, a roysterer, an all-around profligate, tho lare and daily increasing number of intelligent Englishmen who have ceased to believe that "whatever is established is pnered" are asking themselves why the nation should be taxod to maintain him and his numerous offspring in riotous luxury, to demoralize the peoplo by his example of reckless license, because of tho mere accident ot his birth. They have been to:d for a generation or two back that a monarch performed a useful function as a "balance wheel" or a "figure head;" that, haying been stripped of all but the semblance of power, he could not in fringe upon tbe liberties of tbe people, and that his retention gave a dignity and a prestige to the government which were lacking; in a republic, wLile it deprived the country of noue of tbe advantages of free institutions. But thinking Lnglish men are waking up to the fact that how ever harmless a monarchical figurehead may be, so far as tbe political privileges of the people are concerned, hie very existence is a menace to the public morals. Were the prince of Wales the most rigid of miralista he would all the same be the

center of a false and antiquated social system. Being what he is, be works for evil, and evil only, in the social economy of the kingdom. Tbe baccarat scandal will probably figure in history as one of those occurrences, seemingly insignifJcent in themselves, wblch are the precursors, and apparently the causes, of tremendous events. It has set the people to thinking. It has aroused the popular conscience. It has awakened the British press far and away the greatest force in the United Kingdom to a sense of its enormous power and responsibility. It has touched tbe national pride. Tbe great con-conforming religious bodies are thundering their denunciations of the royal profligate. It is not likely that the ferment will soon subside. Such agitations, ia this democratic age, are never without substantial results. Today, if her majeety were to pass away, as, in the course of nature, she must do before many years, there would be a revolution. It is doubtful if time will improve the situation, from a monarchical point of view. An Assuming Governor. Governor Hovey is the first executive of the state to assume judicial power to pass upon the validity of the published acts of the legislature. Ilis attempt to nullify one of the laws of the fifty-seventh general assembly by appending a "rider" to his proclamation announcing the date of the latest filing of the laws, is a most extraordinary performance. "I therefore regard eaid pretended published act as void, and do not embrace it in tbis proclamation," is the dictatorial way Governor Hovey wipes out in his mind's eye from the statute books of Indiana the legislative apportionment act of 1891. If, by some hook or crook, the cas3 could be brought before the supreme court, and three judges of that court of last resort could be so partisan as to sustain tho position taken by Governor Hovey, then the governor of Indiana would wield a power which executives of no other governments enjoy, pavo perhaps the president of Ilayti and the czar of Bussia. To give the governor the power to pass upon the constitutionality of laws and declare them void by proclamation mouths after the adjournment of the legislature enacting tbem would be to endow the chief executive of the etate with an absolute veto power unheard oi in the history of popular government.

Eut it is 6afe to say that to court would dare to establish euch a dangerous precedent. That part of the governor's proclamation exempting tho apportion ment is harmless, and tho lawyers say "mere subterfuge." The proclamation of the governor does not vitalize the acta. The following section of the constitution does not give the governor any power in the matter: No act shall tase effect until the eame shall have been published and circulated in the several counties of this stute by authority, except in case of emergency; which emergency shall be declared in the pr- amble or in the body of the law. The above provision of the constitution and the following section (230) of the revised statutes constitute the only authority for issuing the proclamation : So soon as certificates from all the counties have been received, the governor shall issue and publish his proclamation announcing the date at which the latest filing took place ; of the facts contained in which proclamation all courts shall take notice. The county clerks certificates now on file in the governor's office show that the laws have been circulated in all the counties of the etate in accordance with the provision of tbe constitution above quoted. Among these laws published and circulated, and receipted for by county clerks to the governor, the apportionment act is included. In hie proclamation Governor Hovey snys : "By said certificates it appears that tho latest filing oi such laws took place on the third d-.y of June, 1801, at 12 :30 o'clock p. m., in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Noble county." The statutes do not require the governor to proclaim the laws in force, but simply to give notice to the courts of the time when the last fi'ing took place, and according to the governor's proclamation the last filing took place in Noble county, June 3, at 12:30 p.m., at which time all laws received by tho county olerks took effect, including the apportionment act, which the governor with the "Napoleonic soul" vetoed a second time. Tlie Anti-Harrison Movement. The exclusive publication in Friday's Sentinel of the proceedings of the conference of anti-administration republicans, held in this city on Thursday, naturally created a profound eonnation in political circles. The number and prominence of those who participated In the confer ence wen a revelation to the Harrison republican"!, who have for some time past been consoling themselves with tho delusion that there would bo no opposition to the selection of a Harrison delegation from Indiana to the republican national convention. Evidently there is going to be a very p trcng opposition, not only in Indiana, but in the neighboring states. and itu clear that the administration wiil have to fight for whatever delegates it may obtain from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kansas. In all these states certainly. and probably in others, the anti-adminis tration forces are being organized, and will make a vigorous and persistent contest. The movement at present is not, apparently, in the interest of any particular candidate. While a majority of those engaged in it are unquestionably favorable to Mr. Blaine, they are quite ready to support Gresuam, Aluer or whomsoever may seem to be, when the time comes, most available as against Harkisov. It is very evident that a bitter struggle is at hand in the republican party and that Mr. Harbison's renomination ia not to be accomplished except over desperate resistance. Oar own opinion it that the administration will prevail There is tremendous potency in the machine. The president has large resources of patronage, which he will employ without scruple to renominate himself. We predict that Mr. Harrisos will be tha republican candidate notwithstanding the Blaine-Greabam-Alger combine. But it is going to be a very pretty fight. Mr Harrison will have to "hustle" very actively even to secure the Indiana delegation. The postmasters and the rest of the grand army of officeholders will earn their salaries during the next twelve months.

o8UNDAY THOUGHTS! MORALS MANNERS

ST A CLEKQTMAX. Our presbvterian brethren are to be congratulated upon the splendid showing made by their general asenib'.y in Detroit. The mere reading of the daily reports of the proceedings was lite gazing upon a panorama the wants and supplies of a world pnsed before us. The condition of the Indians, of the freedmen, of the immigrants and of destitute localities at home and abroad were intelligently indicated, while measures of relie', present and prospective, were invariably at hand and on hand. The giving, as a contemporary remarks, has impressive majesty. Nearly $2,Jv0,000 were expended during the List year in missions; nearly as much more in education, church erection, the support of disabled ministers and the relief of the families of clergymen deceased. Equally vast sums were bestowed upon local charities, such as church missions, industrial schools, orphan asylums, hospitals, asso ciations for the relief of tho poor, and the entire round of philanthropic effort. Hardly a needy body or toul was ' over looked. This work has true grandeur. It zixes one an enlarged view of the cosmopolitan nature of modern religion and effectually eilences the criticism tiiat Ciiriitinnityhas lost itu helpfulness of mind au.I heart and hand. Moreover, we discorer that tne presbyterian church in the United Mates is one of the mightiest forces for yod among men. Be good men, be holy men, be consist ent men, be gentlemen, be disinterested men, in seeking your people's welfart; preach the word and truth only. Let A be obvious to your people that you are firm believers in the bible. Such was th excellent advice given bv the Ilex. Dr. John Hall of New York to a class of Union seminary theological graduates tbe other day. Well, the exhoitation was well adopted to the location. Latitude and longitude were both consi Jered. Fo it eeems that Union seminary proposes to hold cn to Prof. Brings despite the veto of the general assembly. All right. By the crushing vote of 440 to i'0, the assembly freed presbytenanism of responsibility, and showed the country where and how that grat church stand.". Now if the seminary prefers Prof. Lngcrs to the presbyterian alliance, and pjoposes to secede and hang itself up like Mohamland's coffin between heaven and earth, presbyterianism may well accept the situation. An old farmer was eating some lively cheee. Observing the skippers, his eon said: "Oh, pa, see 'em wriggle!" "VYal, sonny." replied the old man, chewing ahead without Jgriroace or pause, "let 'em wriggle. I can etand it if they can." If Union seminary undertakes to be undenominational it will undoubtedly lose strength and prestige. Already churches in search of pastors look askance upon that institution. Now that it has waltzed out of preebyterianipm in a "pet," its orthodoxy will be yet more suspected, and candidates for the ministry will find that they can not afford to study at or graduate from a seminary which forbids an evangelical settlement. "Well, well," as Sheridan makes Sir Lucius O'Trigger say in "Tbe Rivals," "the quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only tpoil it by trying to explain it!'' The Young Men's Christian association is becoming increasingly prominent and helpful. The recent conference held in its interest at St. Joseph, and the international convention, which met in Kansas City the other day, were important and satisfactory gatherings. Figures are sometimes eloquent. The Y. M. C. A. figures are peculiarly so. During the twenty-fivo years which have elapsed since the Albany convention in IMid the membership has grown from 15,498 to 223,501. The value of the buildings owned by the association has risen from S 10,000 to $0,946,085. The value of libraries has increased from $45,425 to ?i2S.4&, and the number of volumes from 34,577 to 4:7,347. But moral an-i spiritual results cannot be tabulated. Tbe prayers that have been breathed, the conversions that have taken place, the lives that have been sainted, the sympathy tint has been poured out, the tonic influences that have operated upon the whole community what ligures can set these forth? Opinions are divided, remarked Mrs. Sangster, a competent witness and bright writer, with regard to tbe proper dress to be worn when engaged in business by a businesswoman. Some women advocate the adoption of a certain style in the nature of a uniform, approximating in ease and convenience the every-day costume ot men. Others could never bring theaieelves to wear, either habitually or on occasion, any other than the ordinary trim and serviceable garb befitting and becoming to a woman in her own household. Such a dress or fabric, suited to tho atmosphere, whether of summer or of winter, short enough to escape contact with the floor or pavement, loose enough to allow the lungs and heart free play, dark cuough to be unobtrusive, and approximating the fashion of the day, so that the wearer shall not be conppicuous, Feems to us tbeideal drea for a woman in her out-of-doors business life. So arrayed ehe might go to market, or to shop, or to dressmakers, or to echool, or to poetoflice. Equally in such a dress she may cuiduct her multiform household duties. Among the duties laid upon women in comfortable circumstances is there not this one, viz.: by precept and example to show their weaker sisters that dresa is not the chief end of (female) life. Simplicity of dress at church, on the street, in shopping and while traveling, is greatly to be desired, not only in the interest of good taste, but in the interest of tho poorer women who spend all they earn in the clothing they wear. In Europe, and in some American cities, women consult suitability in dress, and adapt theirgarb to the situation. New York tJsed in Millions of Homes

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and Chicago are proverbial for the "lond ncfis"of their female styles. Let them keep their undesirable pre-eminence. The late George Teabody's muniCcenl tiftof ,500,000 to provide lodging houses fur the pocr of London has now grown, by pood management on the part of the trustees, to a total of 117,2: 0, whil3 the bnd and buildings under the care of the trus: are valued at $0,109,225 more. Up to the close of last year there bad been o,071 dwellings furnished by this fund to the citizen and laboring poor of London. What inccnsL-tent mortals we aro ! At a celebrated sanitarium last Sunday a company of over one hundred of the inmatos were grouped in the parlor singing sacr 'd hvmr.s. Among the rest theytang that old favorite, "I would not live alway, 1 ask not to stay." Yet at that moment e1 cry one of the eingcrs was paying $17 a week for the precise purpose of staying as long as pos-sible! Was that hymn sung in a Pickwickian sensa! He that Lath tasted of the bitterness of sin will fear to con: mit it, and he who hath fe't the sweetness of mercy will feaj to oifend it Charivy k. He who wants to be led of God will be sure to find God ready to lead him. But he who is lei of God must go as Goi leads He must not choose his own way and then expect God to go with him. .4!ji, The word of (rod will stand a thousand readings, and ho who has gone over it most frequently is the surest to find new wonder there. I Jam i7'ri. "Berkley's Theory" has been called a foul without a body. "Comb's constitution of man" has been called a body without a soul. Combine the two, then, and you have a soul in a body. Carlos ilarfyn. The unity of the universe as one system is our argument in proof cf one mind regulating it. .'far MuVer. The latest form of evolution asserts that God made the original types, but that they print themselves without external aid sre self-producing. But docs this newspaper print itself? Jr-s-ph 0A Mohammedanism recognizes but one side of God's character, viz.: II is sovereignty. It teaches fate "fixed fate." ;J0.lKX Thought. Orthodoxy is my doxy. Dictum of an Ennlith Jii? hop. A rottfn pillar in the temple is infinitely more daa. aping to it than tbs sharpest arrow shot against the walls from with OUt. II ul'-h UiSOH. One cf the colporteurs of the American Tract Society laboring in the Indian territory eays he found many "persuasions," fome of which he never heard of before and which wiil probably be equally novel to our readers. Among them he men-

, tions the Oolites, the oul-sleepers, the j Holintss Churchites and many persons J claiming to be absolutely sanctified and nmess. Our experience with a number of the.-io unless folks has taught us that they are dangerous people to lend money to, and that when they are in one's house 'tis a wise precaution to lock up the spoons. The Kev. C. Meyer, a Lutheran minister of Herndon, Kas., has distributed nearly $40. 0tO of seed wheat pmong the impoverished Lutherans on the Kansaf frontier. This is practical Christianity. The A mf-rican Sunday-school union is doir.e a good work, especially in the West, Southwest and South. At tbe sixtyseventh anniversary of tho society in May ! tbe vear's results were thus summarized: One thousand eight hundred and twenty new schools organized, with 7 105 teachers and OS.210 f-cholsrfl ; 7.137 other echoo's tided; IS.Sol bibles distributed; 49,4tO families visited for praver and arousing interest; 5,000 professed conversions, ana 1.10 new churches organized from the Sun. d8v-schools of the union, 'lis a good record. The union deserves and 6hould have the support of all Christians. ET CETERA. A state official in Mcine is wearing a Etraw hat that he bought in 1S59. It is row thought that President Harrison is a one-term man if he can't get two. Wade Hampton' does not believe that the new party will hurt the democrats in any way. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes pays aa exclusively pork diet gives a bristly character to the beard and hair. Mrs. James G. Blaine, jr., will be a guest of Col. and Mrs. Kobert Ingersoll for a portion of the summer. Mrs. G rover Cleveland has been elected a member of tbe Darling Chapter of tbe Daughters of Revolution. Mrs. John A. Log ax has sold the Logaa farm at Murphysboro, consisting of 300 acre?, for 25,000 to J. C. Clark and T. M, Logan. That must have been a pleasant dinner which Christine Xilsson recently gave and at which Patti and Albani were the honored guests. A writer in Chamlsrt' Journal describes tbe wonderful elTect a young woman's pinging had upon a drove of cattle on a Western ranch. U. S. Consul-general Callentine of Bombay pays that he believes severl native Indian princes wiil attend t'r.9 Columbian exposition. Mrs. Kobert I Ccttivg, who died in New York last week, would never tell anybody how old ehe was, and it was solemnly sgreed that thero should be no mention of her age upon her coffin-plate. Count Douglas, a member of the German reichstag, who has become a great favorite of tbe emperor, is a descendant of the famous Scotch family. He is now one of the wealthiest laud proprietors o! Prussia. Tkesipent Carnot of France receives $120,000 as salary and as much more for houe rent and traveling expenses. The next highest salaries are those paid to tha president of the chamber of deputies, thaj president of the senate and the governof of Algeria, these three officials receiving $20,000 a year each. Mb. Charles Popson of Philadelphia has returned from a two years' residence upon the Isthmus of Panama. Hesaya that while tbe run from A pinwall to Pan ama occupies but four hours, "many a railroad u:nn has left one end of tbe roat in good health and was ready for burial when he reached the other end." Malarial fever or.ce settled in tbe system can never be thrown entirely olT. rowaei: 40 Year3 the Standar4