Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1892 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MOIlIftAÜ. FEBRUARY 10. 1S92-YWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL Elf THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL'OC. S. E. MORSS, President.

ITnUrtd at tLa Postoffic at Indianapolis m second rlart matter. I IER3H PKIl YEAIU Flre'e copy (Inrariably In AdTanee.).......8t OO TS'r ifk democrat to bear in mind and" select their n tat papr when they come to take aubscripIxcsand make up clubs. .Agents making up clubs send for any Information ltmL AUdM TUE 1'P1AA POLLS SLTNTIN EL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY. FEBIiUAliY 10. 1S92. TWELVE PAGES. The Sentinel's "Indiana Almanac for IS92" is out and ia a most valuable compendium. It is, indeed, indispensable to every politician, officeholder, professional man and business man in Indiana. Among Dther admirable features are the McKinley tariff schedules in lull. The almanac is going oil "like hot cakes." It is estimated that seventeen millions of dollars will have to be expended on the world's fair before the fates are thrown open on the first day. It may be inferred from this that the world's lair will be a bis thing. A bill recently introduced into conpress proposes that the national government shall regulate the entire divorce business of the country, tuite a sweeping paternal oversight. this proposition, and If it eucceeds then we will l.ave divorce bureaus, firms and what-nots ad libitum at the national capital, just as we have now all sorts ot scheme and schemers managing and fleecing pensions, and pensioners. Oh, the pickings for somebody or many bodies! Money ia a sturdy task-master. No wonder that those enpaged in perpetuating the Louisiana lottery worked like galley slaves to save it from dost ruction. Lefore the government stopped its operations through the mails, it is said that the littery yielded ?;0,(hV"0 per annum to ha owners. I low is that for "a surplus?" ow we can understand something of the death aizony of the enterprise. It paid b;'.ter than roulette and trade et junrantc at the famous Monte Carlo resort in Monaco, which is said to yield 15,IXh,Ok) francs, or in our currency about 3,000,000. Ok the forty-four states all but fifteen will vote for presidential electors next November under some form or other of the Australian ballot system. A preat reform never before made such rapid strides in our country. It is only about three yearn since the first law of this 'md was passed in the United States. !The Sentinel, which was one of the very first newspapers in the country to advothis eystem, predicted in 1SSS that in less than ten years every state in the Union would be operating under it. The prediction seems certain to be fulfilled long before the time named. Governor Flower of New York ha3 made the fatal error of attempting an explanation. A fewdays since whiie receiving Chicago delegation in the interest oi the world's fair he used the word "rats." He )iow says that he observed, in regard to the amount of money said to be necestary, "A full treasury breeds rats." Possibly he did, but the one word is more forcible, more suggestive and more probable than the lengthier statement, and besides it closer to the American heart. "We all understand "ratä" and can imagine how appropriately it might be tittered after listening to a Chicago delegation. The democratic state central committee ehould not have changed the day of the Btate convention from the 14th of April to the Hist. It was useless to notice such rotas that there was anything in the accident which placed thi convention on the anniversary of Lincoln's assassination. Only idiots or malignant partisans wonld think of euch a thing. JetTtrsiytiriUe Sein. Our contemporary will note a better reason for the change than that referred io in the above. The 14th of April falls his year upon the day before Good FriJay and is in the midst of holy week, a season always observed devoutly by catholic, Lutherans and episcopalians, and in in increasing measure by other religious Senominations. The fact that the 14th Jell in holy week was overlooked by the ommittee when it originally fixed the date for the convention. WheD its attention was called to the matter it promptly deferred the convention a week, and the 2eni will, were are sure, indorso this action now that it knows the facts. Pennsylvania is fit ill endeavoring to ;ret a good tax law through the labors of a rpecial tax commission, and a commission of thirty persons representing different Industries and the interests of the state is How in session. There is little doubt that the commission will furnish valuable information and valuable suggestions to the legiolature, but there w ill probably be a preat deal of difficulty in getting its recommendations adopted. In common with other states Pennsylvania has tried tax commissioners before, but their treasures have always Deen side-tracked and some substitute adopted or no action taken. Nevertheless the labors of these commissions have been valuable, not only to the states that created them, but also to the entire country. There has resulted Irom them a large increase of nopular ducation on the eubject and a wide discussion of various remedies proposed that tan scarcely fail to result in more satis!actory tax systems throughout the tountry. A good deal of testimony has been laid before the coroner tending to show that the surgical institute building was a model, ind that all the iu mates were as safe against fire as the occupants of any other building in the city. ' This is all very well is far as it goes, and if it were cot for those nineteen dead bodies which accumulated within a few momenta afterthe building caught fire it would be smooth ailing for the coroner, and he would have no difficulty in rendering a verdict such as the proprietors of the institute are' anxious for. But what of those nineteen daad bodies? Their evidence, although silent, is none the less eloquent. The coroner cannot ignore it if he would. Giving full weight to the testimony of living witnesses credit cannot be denied

to the ghastly story of the nineteen corpses. If euch a harvest of death can be gathered in a few moments of fire in a "safe" building, then, indeed, is all our modern science, and invention, and ingenuity vain, and we are the playthings of cruel destiny even as a feather of the wind. The Libel Laws of Indiana. The Democratic editorial association of Indiana, at its annual meeting in this city last week, created a special committee to prepare a measure to be submitted to the next legislature as a substitute for the Grubbs libel law, which, in the opinion of the democratic editors of the Btate, has disgraced the statute books of Indiana long enough. The Republican editorial association and all other press organizations in the state will be aeked to cooperate with the democratic association in bringing about the desired reform. It is expected that every newspaper publisher in the state will lend his hearty eupport to this movement. The great influence which the press can exert in such a matter when it acts in unison has been strikingly illlustrated in New York. It will be remembered that the New York legislature of 1S. made a law substituting electricity for the rope as a means of inflicting capital punishment; forbidding the presence of reporters at executions and prohibiting the publication in the newspapers of detailed accounts thereof. These provisions were absurd, unjut to the press and contrary to the public interest for many reasons, which it is unnecessary to set forth here. They were also in palpable conflict with the constitution of the state. They were, to a great extent, a dead letter from the beginning. The .Sun made a demand for their repeal some time ago. Nearly all the other newspapers in the state seconded the demand. The Snn announced that it would oppose any candidate for the legislature, regardless of party, who refused to pledge himself to vote for repeal, and many other newspapers did likewise. The result of this agitation has just been witnessed in the repeal cf the obnoxious provisions by the New York Iegslature. The repealing bill parsed tho assembly by a unanimous vote, and also, we believe, the senate, and was promptly approved by Governor Flower. Thus the statute books of New York are relieved of a blot whicli they never should have borne, and the attempt failed to deprive the people of information as to the manner in which their criminals are exterminatedinformation which they have a right to, and which it ia the legitimate function of the press to furnish. What tho newspapers of New York have accomplished in this matter the newspapers of Indiana can accomplish touching our libel laws if they will act together. There can be no question that these laws are grossly unjust to the press and that they ought to bo materially modified or repealed altogether, and new laws, based on correct principles, substituted for them. It may bo urged that few publishers have fullered hardship under the existing laws. This is true, but it is also true that some publishers have euflered tho greatest injustice, and that, so long as they remain on the statute books, they are a menace to every publisher in Indiana, a standing incitement to blackmailing prosecutions aad a "weapon in the hands of every shyster and knave which he may employ, at will, to punish an honest and fearless press. The laws under which juries were recently packed at Heaver and Pittsburg, Pa., in the interest of Senator (Ji-ay in his proceedings against newspapers which, he claimed, had libeled him, had not been appealed to for many years. But they were ready to the hands of Quay when he needed them, and under them publishers have just been convicted by juries organized for that purpose and have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. A similar advantage is liable to be taken of the Grubbs law at any time by some scoundrel having political influence. It is as much to the interest of the great body of honest and law-abiding people that this statute should be wiped out and replaced by a fair and just law as it is to tho advantage of tho press. A free press ia the Burest guarantee of the people against oppression, plunder and all forms of wrong and outrage. The existing law is a menace to a free press, and being such is a menace to a free government. The Sentinel hereby serves notice that it will actively oppose any candidate for the next legislature, by whatever party nominated, who declines to pledge himself to vote for the just and reasonable action which the Democratic editorial association proposes to demand.

Our Relations with Chili. Mr. William II. Tiiomes, a journalist and author whose stories of adventure by sea and land have made him very well known throughout this country and England, has made some interesting contributions to the history of our difficulties with Chili. He has visited that country four times and has kept track of the sentiment of the Chilians toward ns, which he thinks has materially changed in the last thirty years. According to hia statement the Chilians were with the North at the beginning of the civil war, but suffered some change through the conduct of Gen. Kilpatrick who wassont there as minister. He offended the Chilian authorities by some questionable acts in connection with Chilian revenues and by his personal conduct, which reached a climax when he attended an official reception with a woman of openly bad character. Jlis recall was then asked of our government and the request was granted. This adjusted the matter, but there was left in the minds of the Chilians a knowledge that the greatest government on the face of the earth might occasionally be represented by a very poor minister. The next and most unfortunate occurrence was during the administration of Mr. Garfield, when James G. Blaine was secretary of etate. Chill had given special attention to the development of her guano industry, and had offered a reward of a million dollars to any person who found new deposits of importance. A Frenchman who was engaged in tho search, although he did not find guano, discovered large deposits of nitrate of soda, which were much more valuable. He claimed the reward, but the government would not pay iL He assigned his claim and it was reassigned until it came into the bands of a syndicate of American capitalists. This syndicate obtained the assistance of Mr. Blaine, and the claim

which Lad been puffed up to $20,000,000 was asked as a matter in which this government took an interest, on account of the citizenship of the then holders. The Chilians declined to settle, and maintained that there was not a particle of justice in the claim. What migh have resulted ia uncertain had not G airfield's death brought in Mr. Frelixwcysen as secretary of Btate. He promptly withdrew the claim, and it has ntver been renewed. With these foundation it is not surprising that recent events should have increased the dislike of the Chilians for American diplomacy in eomeof its phases. Mr. Tiiomes says that the quarter of Valparaiso, in which the attack on our eailors occurred, was very much such a locality as Five Points in New York used to be before the hand of reform wa3 laid upon it. He thinks that the attack was quite as natural an occurrence as an attack at Five Points would have been if just after the Mason and Slidell affair a British man-of-war had anchored in New York harbor, and a delegation of her sailors had vielted that resort. He believes that the best interests of this country will be served by cultivating friendly relations with Chili, and thinks that efforts should be made in that direction, but he fears that it will take many years to bring about the good-feeling that naturally should exist between the two countries. As to Cheap Clothing. A few weeks ago Mr. S. N. D. North, secretary of the Wool manufacturers' association, published an article claiming that "the poor man can buy in any one of the reputable clothing houses of Boston a complete suit of all-wool clothing for 10," or "a suit of clothing for $7, guaranteed to be nothing but sound wool,' cr "a suit of clothes lor $5.50, with a guarantee, which his own analysis will confirm, that there is not a particle of cotton in the fabric and jhat more than 0 per centum of its const, tueuts is sound wool, just from the back of the eheep." To these wild statements the Dry Goods Economist replies as follows: Upon the subject of clothes few greater romances are told than upon the question of ccut, so that one hears of a suit of clothes for men being oriered at 57.50 composed entirely of wool from the sheep's back and another at 5 that contains a major percentage of pure wool and does not contain a particle of cotton. These statement. bear on their face their own absurdity for at such prices it is all but impossible to purchase, in theordinary channels of business, a man's suit of heavy-weight clothing that is made out of any substance, let aloneEUchan expensive article as pure wool. Apart from the cost of the goods the price of a suit of clothes is composed of the cost of making and the cost of distribution. A very low estimate for making and trimming with the cheapest linings and other findings would be Sir), and as nothing less than 03 per cent, would pay a retailer for handling a $5 suit this would mean another cost of 1.05, or a total of $4.15, leaving 85 cents to pay for the material of a 5, or 3.33 of a 7.50 suit. The cost of making ia for the cheapest possible kind of a suit, und '.he balances of 85 cents and 3.35 for m.iterial are certainly not enough to pay for either a cloth made out of pure wool or wool in any condition of relative pureness. As to the existence of suits for men in heavy weights in any kind of material there is a grave question of doubt, for inquiries at some ot the retail stores elicited the information that they carried nothing in value le-a than 10. What is a ten-dollar suit for men composed of? Anxamination of its texture, make-up and trimmings suggests that if this is the best that 10 will do, what will be the thing a 5 bill will buy? Such a suit would be worthy of exhibition at the world's fair, and would be a welcome treasure to future historians to prove what the people inhabiting these lands duriugthenineteenth century were compelled to wear because w ool was taxed.

One "Wiiininj in Thirty Years. In one view the history of democratic national conventions for a generation is as short as the chapter on snakes in Ireland: r lc04. ls;.S. 1872. 1X7. ls&S. New York dominant -! Thus far historv. Now for prophecy. Emancipation from New York 1S92. This suggestion of the Chicago Times ia accompanied by what appears to be an insinuation that Chief Justice Fclleh would be a formidable candidate for tho democracy. It is certain that the democrats of the West have become extremely weary under the rule of New York machine politicians. While the decision of the supreme court in the Nebraska governorship case attains tho ends of justice, there is room for doubt as to the jurisdiction of the court over the matter, and the dissenting opinion of Justice Field is one that will receive wide attention from the legal profession. Ha holds broadly that the national courts have no right to determine a question of this cearacter. The states, by the provisions of the constitution, are independent political bodies, except as to the powers they have ceded to the national government, and among the powers clearly reserved to the states is that of the election of its own officers. So long as a republican form of government is maintained and the state ia not endangered by invasion or domestic violence he holds that the national government cannot interfere, he says: How could this court, in ca.e of refusal of the incumbent to vacate his office, enforce its order? An attempt to do so by force would not be sustained by the executive, or by congress, or by the people. Ho could see nothing but mischief in the assertion of the principle, and it is certainly easy to see how mischief might result from it. Of all the phases of imbecility shown by the New York Pre, we know of none equal to that which existed at tho conception of the following: tariff pictures. Another illustration of our foreign trade during December, 1S01. In that month we bought of other nations goods valued at .'9,444.(55. We sold to other nations products worth 119,932,532. Thus we sold far more goods than we bought, and the excess of our sales over our purchases was 50,487,877. It is no wonder that the calamity howlers are dumb when they see the nation doing-business at a profit of fifty millions of dollars a mouth. . - This hhould make a calamity howler not only dumb, but also deaf, blind, lame, and drunk and disorderly. On the parallel problem, a - farmer sells $!K) worth of wheat and buys 35 cents worth of nails. What'is his "profit?" The Pres$ would answer. SS9.C5. It in evident that the

commonly accepted ideas of arithmetic are the cause of the decline of the protection theory. The republican party should demand a revision of school books to keep pace with the advance of the Press in mathematics. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. "William D. Parr, Lamong, Ind.: Gen. Schofield is commander-in-chief of the U. S. army, and Judge Fuller is tho chief justice of the U. S. supremo court. There have been two changes in President Harrison's cabinet. Mr. Windom, secretary of the treasury, died and was succeeded by ex-Governor Foster of Ohio, and Mr. Proctor having resigned the war portfolio was succeeded by Mr. Steveu Elkins of West Virginia. Elmox Grego, Fittsboro, Ind.,: If as you eay, the squirrel on the top of the pole turns around as the man walkB around the pole, keeping his face to the man as the latter makes the circuit, the man certainly does not go around the squirrel, although he encircles his position. It is an old question and has been answered scores of times. tT CETERA.

In Ireland Dennis Koorobee died recently possessed of forty-eight children, 23t grandchildren and 941 great-grandchildren. Gen. Jubal Early, the leader whom. Lee called "My bad oil man," is much broken in health, and is visibly showing the signs of age. It was an odd coincidence that Cardinals Manning and fciineoni were elevated to their highest rank in the church the same day and died on the same day. Senator Davis of Minnesota has a noteworthy collection of Napoleana, embracing 390 books and quantities of pictures. To the senater the "Little Corporal" is the greatest hero of history, and he reads every line he can find relating to him. Senator W. J. Mc Conn ell of Idaho, one of the pioneers in the territory, says he has got rich bv raising fresh vegetables at Boise, and buying and planting more land with the proceeds of their sale, while hundreds of disappointed gold seekers were leaving for the East. The first book issued by the institution for savings in Newburyport, Mass., on the first day the bank was opened, April 5, 1S20, was received at tho banking rooms recently to have the interest added. The original deposit was 20, and no more deposits were made. The interest to date amounted to v.t8. The pay-roll on a railroad in North Dakota last week showed that one employe, a fireman, worked for forty-eight hours at a stretch, then had three hou.s relief for 6leep and resumed work and continued working for thirty-one hours more. It is explained that the heavy Bnowfall has pressed the road very much. The dollar sociable has had a great run in tho Maine churches this winter, and and some of the brothers and sisters, producing their dollars, detailed very interesting experiences in procuring the money. A Pittsfield man told the best story. He shocked the congregation with the statement that he had "collared the stuff playing poker at the Sancy House." "From my various patents," says Edison, "so far as the patents themselves go, I have stood an actual loss in experimenting and in lawsuits of $ 000,000. I should be better off it I had not taken out any patents. I do not mean to say that I am a pauper, as you mieht think from my talk. But my money has not been made out of patents or out of any protection that the patent office has given me. I made it all in manufacturing, and I have made quite enough to pay for my experiments and to get a good living, which is all that I care about." . A baby was born on board the sleeping car Glyndon, attached to a Northern Pacific train, a few days ago, just as the train was pulling out of Hope, Idaho. Two doctors who were on board attended the mother, Mrs. C. E. Brant of Seattle. A meeting of all the passengtrs on the train was held to raise a subscription as a present for the baby and to choose a name for it. With the mother's, consent it was christened Ida Glyndon, Ida being intended to 6tand for Idaho, the state in which she was born. The mother and child were taken to a hospital at Spokane and a committee of the passengers bought there a silver cup and a Spokane souvenir spoon for the babj MAKING A LAW ODIOUS. II ow the ltepubllcnna of Lncrang IIv Loaded Dono tbe People. To tub Editor Sir: Lagrange county is one of the few in the state of Indiana that have comparatively little railroad property and when the new tax law was under discussion it was argued against that measura that the general increase in valuation anticipated would add to the burden of taxation heretofore borno by the owners of real estate. This cry was, and is now, being urged by the republican managers and an occasional democrat whose personal property has heretofore escaped taxation. As a matter of fact, an honest administration of the new law would (1) have supplied more money than our local officers spent last yeRr, (2) paid our just share of the increased state levy and (3) yet reduced the total amount of taxes collected in the county more than 3,000. But, as distinguished from this, we have a republican administration of the law, made withe view torenderngtbat measure "odious" in the eyes of the people, and with the result of increasing the amount collected by more than 20,01)0. The figures are as follows: The duplicate la6t year (old valuation and old levy) yielded 93,000; this year's levy will reach 115,000. The eleven township trustees and the corporation of Lagrange will collect, including the estimated apportionment of school funds, 13,000 more than they did last year. The county levy will produce $15,000 more than was spent for county purposes last year, and will leave a surplus greater than that sum in the cqunty treasury. Thus, for purely local purposes, the people are compelled to pay 2S,0D0 more than usual and much more than necessary a condition for which the new tax law is no more responsible than the edict of Nantes. Deducting this political levy from the total levy and a remainder of S7,000 is found a sum which, as I stated before, will provide a revenue sufficient for local purposes, and state purposes, and still be less by several thousand dollars than the last collection under the old system. The value of the new law in those counties where there is a great deal of corporation property is, of course, more apparent, but' j presume there, too, it is subject to the sarno dishonest and malignant opposition that prevails here, when, for purely political capital, the levies have been made scandalously high and the burdens of the people increased. Lagrange, Feb. 2. D. A. Fawcett. More cases of sick headache, biliousness, constipation, ran be cured in less time, with leas medicine, and for less money, by using Carter's Little Liver Pills, than by any other means.

xiSUNDflY THOUGHTS MORALS MANNERS

IT A ClIROTMASi It would have been nothing less than an impeachment of Christianity if the United States had declared war against Chili, as it seemed likely to do a week or ten days ago. A few months eince our country undertook to confederate the South American republics in an agreement to arbitrate their differences before resorting to war. If, in the face of that effort, we had refused arbitration, which Chili proposed, and unfurled the battle liags, w hat kind of an impresfcion would have been made upon the mind of the world? The barbarism of our vaunted civilization, the hypocrisy of our religion, the insincerity of our pleas for arbitration as the proper method of settling international troubles, the real belief of our government that might makes right, would have bean written out before the eyes of Christendom in letters as large as John Haucock's signature to the declaration of independence. It goes without saying that tho United States should protect those who wear our uniform ehould tnrow tho national shield over the lowliest citizen. But war should be invoked to this end only as the last resort, and after all other means have been used and have failed. Any other view ia heresy in religion and treason to peace. This is the church view of this subject. And ultimately the church view is usually found to represent the sober second thought of the community. The long continued and serious illness of Mr. Spurgeon prepared the public mind for the sad news of his death. 'Tis true that reports of his convalescence had somewhat quieted apprehension. But his absence from his pulpit and his presence at Mentone were ominous commentaries upon these reports. His decease was, in a sense, discounted. None the less is it to bo lamented. Ever since 1S53, when he took the pastorate of the church which soon became famous as "Spurgeon's Tabernacle," the great Baptist pulpiteer has stood in the front rank of the world's useful and illustrious men. His capacity for work was prodigious. His consecrated genius niade him the ornament of one country and the admiration of all. He was broader than his denomination and belonged to the universal church. An! was ever greater simplicity united to shining abilities? It were well if his motto might be adopted by every pulpit: "Preach nothing up but Christ and nothing down but sti.'' The Kussian tyrants are guilty of another crime against liberty of conscience. Their latest peremptory order compels all teachers and pupils in all the educational institutions throughout the empire to attend the orthodox (Greek church) worship on orthodox feast and holidays. Any one absenting hitn or herself will be heavily fined and expelled from office or school. This is making folks pious with a vengeance. What a lovely type of Christianity. The liberality of converted Chinese is putting to 6hame older Christians in the matter of supporting foreign missions. The average amount received from Christian Chinese in this country is over 11 per convert, each year, for this special work. They also give largely out of their limited income to other religious enterprises. As our foreign born citizens often value their citizenship more highly than natives do, so do the converted heathen set American Christians an example in respect of benevolence. There is no true charity in tossing a dollar out of an unlimited surplus to a needy cause or individual; there must be in it the element of self-sacrifice. Here is where the church fails. It gives stingily out of its abundance. It has been a favorite contention of tho school of "higher criticism" that Melchizedek was a myth. Theilegend in Gairsis of his visit to Abraham and the blessing he bestowed upon the patriarch was an invention of the Jews in later ages, some have been informed. It was important that Jerusalem should be made to look dignified at an early date; hence this myth was woven into the literature of the Pentateuch. Now mark the refutation. Portions of a royal library dating from 1430 B. ('. have been recently unearthed at the city of Fel-el-Amarna in Egypt. It is ascertained beyond peradventure, by the study of these cuneiform tablets, that a century before the exodus ereat libraries existed in the land now called Palestine and that a brisk correspondence was kept up between the governors of the provinces in that part of the Egyptian empire and their superior on tho banks of the Nile this in the face of the "higher criticism" assertion that Israel was not a literary nation until after the time of the judges, and that no records in the Phoenician dialect run back to that age! Well, what have these tablets to say regarding Melchizedek? They showed letters from Melchizedek himself in which he speaks of his city as the town of Saline or Shalem, the God of peace, and sometimes he calls it Uru-Saline. Urn means city, so that Uru-Saliae i just Jerusalem. Thus positive records go back to the period before the exodus. Trof. Sayce of Oxford, who has discussed these facts in an elaborate and luminous essay, very justly observed that they are a serious blow to the pretensions of conjectural "higher criticism." The professor says in conclusion : "Historical criticism is still a new science and the assertions often and so loudly made on its behalf must be tested before we can receive them. It has appealed to the monuments of the past, which it was believed were lost forever, and behold these monuments have risen, as it were, from the very grave to confute or moderate its pretensions." Eleven years ago last Tuesday the first Society of Christian endeavor was formed with no plan or purpose of propagation, and with the one ideaof aiding the growth in grace of the young people of a local church. But it met a felt want. That first society proved infectious. Today there are 18,500 local societies, ith 1,100,000 members, who represen; i :ery laud on earth. How hath God wrout't? "How far that little candle throws his beams." Bradstreet has furnished some exceed ingly valuable statistics upon the common causes of business failures in 1S91. They are classified as follows: Incompetence 16.2G3.941 Inexperience , G,00I,(J70 Lack of capital 61,710,157 Unwiae credits i),2'23,ol'J Failureeof others lt,lö,O80 Extravagance : 2.54.181 Neelect - 2,07t,709 Competition - l,Kvtä2 Disaster (commercial crisis) 40,736,052 Speculation . 23,3.iti,718 Fraud 13,13y.8JÖ Bringing these several causes into two classes, those of ac imprudent nature and thoao of a c ulnabie sorL we lind that over

00 per cent come under the first category. Fraud, extravagance and neg'ect constitute but 10 per cent, of the whole, which is of interest from the moral point of view. The enormous increase in the number of divorces applied for and granted in this country from year to year has attracted the attention of pulpit, press and bar. It interests saint and sinner. Are we becoming an immoral people? Is Europe, where divorces are comparatively infrequent, in a preferable condition in regard to sexual mora's? The Countess ven Kzockow, in a late issue cf the ludejiendent, shows that both law and social custom across the water tolerate immoralities which neither American law nor American eociotv approve. The facts she cites touching illegitimate

birthe, connections, etc., more than offset in suggestive ghastHness tho evils attendant upon our fast and loose divorce laws. But 'tis poor consolation to know tnat Europe is even worse off than America. The entire problem of the family confronts civilization today. For, as Dr. S. W. Dilke (an authority on the subject) says: "The family so enters into the social body that it must of necessity feel more deeply than any other soeiai institution the peculiar industrial and social forces now at work upon the social order." Property will not perish, but there w ill be gradual modifications in tho manner in which it is hold. It will become more and more a personal, and less and lees an hereditary right. Einile de Laveleye. It is no little Ein to represent trifles as necessary on the one hand, or as fatal oa the other, to salvation. Dr. Todd. The religion of a good many people is like the tire in flint ; it needs to be struck out of them. Anon. The men who sneer at Christianity fail to recognize how largely they are indebted to the gospel for all they have and are. II. That this eager world moves along so steadily, that it has so few catastrophies, that eo larize a part of its people are born correctly, live in peace and die in loving homes, is no 6mall proof that religion is wielding an undiminished, rather a 6teadily increasing influence. The Advance. The purpose of the scripture is to teach us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go. Iiaronint. In the steeple of every human life hangs a bed, which by-and-by will begin to toll a solemn knell. That bell rings the years in before it rings us out. T. L. Cnyler. To do so no more is true repentance. Luther. Look upon the bright side of your condition, then your discontents wid disperse. Pore not upon your loss, but recount your mercies. Wation. The surest method of arriving at a Knowledge of (iod'a eternal purposes about us is to bo found in the right use of the present moment. Each hour comes with some little fagot of God's will faetteued upon its back. F. Y. Fuber. And now the girl "collegians" have followed the young men in rounding a home in the midst of 'vice and squalor, where some of their number reside, in order by personal contact to help the helpless and save the lost. College houses of this kind are found in our large cities. In New York tiie students do not remain through the year, but are re ieved by their sistors from Vasear, Smith and Wellesley. If properly supervised and guarded 6uch a self-sacrificing effort will do good. 'Tis Christian in the truest sense. Thert is a wide diference, remarks a discriminating religious contemporary, between religious controversy and religious discussion.. Controversy is contradiction. Discussion is examination. The one is intellectual pugilism. The other is cooperative study. The purpose of tbe one is victory of the other, truth. The two are immediately distinguishable from each other by the spirit they each manifest. Controversy is angered by opposing truth, and seeks to minify or pervert it. Discussion gladly recognizes an opposing truth and reconstructs for its reception. Controversy is loud and eometimes unscrupulous. Discussion is modest and never 6elf-seeking. The census of the religious preferences of the entering class at Cornell, N. Y., have just been printed, and from it it appears that of a class of 544 the church members number 2S4 and the church, goers 140 morn, the remainder being without ecclesiastical connections. Cornell, as our readers know, is one of the few colleges founded upon an attitude of neutrality to religion. Hence the census here is significant. In almost any other similar institution the proportion of church members and go i would be even greater. In many r.gards, as we are told by the president of one of our western colleges, the Christian etate of the colleges is admirable. A strong Christian spirit pervades them as a constant and formative atmosphere. "Revivals" ro less common than formerly in the colleges, as they are less common in the community, but persistent, forceful, progressive Christian living ia more common. The Christian man is respected for his faith as his brother of an older generation was not. He loses no caste by being a Christian. Faith has a rational basis, and to this the college man delights to turn. A faith that is rational, a faith that is ethical, a faith that is manly may be trusted to make its way. May God give us ail that brand of faith. We snbjoin and classify and answer a few specimen examples of the much vaunted errancy of the scripture. (1) "St. Taul says the law came 430 years after the covenant with Abraham a palpable misstatement of fact." Answer: Paul says nothing of the sort. He writes that the law was 430 years after the covenant was confirmed (Gal. iii, 17). This is true ; the final confirmaion was with Jacob on his way to Egypt, (Gen. ix, vi 1,) and this was 403 years before the law. Bead Psalms xi, v, ix, x, (revised version). "The covenant which he made with Abraham and his oath until Isaac, and confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute to Israel for an everlasting covenant." 2. "The scriptural record is that the original colony of Israelites in Egvpt consisted of seventy souls (Gen. xi, 0-7), and that the number of those included in the exodus from Egypt was 000,000 men on foot, besides children. (Exodus xii, 5). This would make the whole number who escaped from bondage about three million an impossible increase in 430 years!" Answer: If there were only twenty couples at the beginning of the period and only ten generations in over four centuries, the increase at the ordinary rate would have amounted to over five millions. So that if there be an error, it is an error in understatement. But there is no error. Undoubtedly the number was decreased by ill treatment and consequent physical deterioration. 3. "Stephen is reported to have said (Acts viii, 4) that Abraham left liaran after the death of his father, Terah, whereas Genesis asserts that Terah lived fifty vears after the departure of Abraham." Answer: Stephen said no 6uch thing. He did eay that from Charran (or Haran) "when his father was dead he removed him into this land wherein ye now dwell."- That is, Abraham, after he heard of his father's death, returned to Haran and "removed him," meaning the body of Terah, to the land of Canaan. Surely these are not the mistakes of the bible, but the mistakes of the critics.

A FINE HISTORY OF INDIANA

"THE SENTINEL'S" GREAT PREMIUM FOR 1892. What Ex-Presldrnt CIrToUnd and Senators Voorbeea and Turp Sar of It. Sc Mapt'os-Avk., ) New York, Not. Ö, 1SJL, j My Dear Mr. Motiss Please accept my thanks for the "History of Indiana" which you kindly sent nie. Tiie examination I have been able to give it is sufficient to justify me in expressing the opinion that it contains a great amount of historical information presented to the render ia a most pleasant way. I do not see why it ehould not prove itself a very useful book. Yours truly, VThut Senntor Vnorhff Sat. United Ptatfs Senate. Washington, 1. C, Oct. 33. i Iniianarolis Sentinel Company: Gentlemen I am ju?t in receipt of the "History of Indiana" which has just been given to tho public by Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks. I havo looked through it with some care, and eay sincerely that I am delighted with it. It ought to go in the hands of all our people. Tho young will receive instruction from it, and those advanced in life will be pleaded by the recollections it awakens. The people oi Indiana I think are not sufficiently aware of the real growth and greatness of their state. It requires, in fact, but little study to ascertain, and not much effort to show, that Indiana according to area is the greatest and most productive state in the Union, and possessed of greater and more extensive educational a lvantages than any other commonwealth of equal population in the world. These facts should be taught everywhere among our people. I fully believe in the doctrine of state pride, especially when there is a solid foundation, for it. Such a publication as the one now before me is well calculated to inspire the young and old alike of Indiana with just and laudable sentiments of pride and gratitude. It is indeed a most charming book. The likenesses, taken altogether, are the best I have ever seen in engravings of their character. Please accept my sincere thanks and believe me always very faith fully yours, What Senator Turpi Sayn. Indianapolis, Nov. 7. S. E. Mores, Esq., Indianapolis, Inl : My Dear Sir I have carefully read "The Topular History of Indiana," and have verified its data by comparison with older and larger works. It is an excellent abridgement of our state annals, eleganr, accurate, in style admirably adapted to the character of the book. The table of contents and list of illustrations make a very complete index, adding to its practical use for ready reference. Yours truly, What Ei-(iurnor Gray Says. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 11, 1S91. The Sentinel Company, Indianapolis, Indians; Gentlemen I have examined a copy of your illustrated "Popular History of Indiana." It is in my judgment an admirable epitome of leading events and mentioa of personages in both territorial and 6tate history. It appears to have been carefully and intellieently compiled, and certainly will be inspiring; and instructive to the young reader, as well as favorably received by all who feel a patriotic interest in the subject to which it pertains. I trubt it may obtain a wide circulation. Very respectfully, ClsTrland anl lit)!. Columbia City TosLJ Mr. David B. Hill's presidential boom w as not urged along to any great extent bv his last speech, delivered upon the oc- ' ca6ion of his retirement from the gover- ' norship. The public notion that Mr. Hiil was above all else an expert in the ; matter of practical po.itics has been more than confirmed by his own words. The wants and the necessities of the hour are not even mentioned, nor do the demands of the people receive any consideration at his hands, but his whole attention is taken up in laying down the lines unon which according to his notion ; we can 'win the lkht this year. He intert prets the voice of the people expressed in i thunder tones in 1S90 as being merely a j protest against tbe billion-dollar congress. ! lie suggests that nothing bo done in tbe way of tariff legislation by the present congress except to repeal the McKinley bill and to make necessary appropriations and fight the batt'e of '92 against the billion congress. Very good men and very good democrats regard Mr. Hill's plan as very good politics, and certainly it is. The reason that the people love Mr. Cleveland is because they believe he is above everything else an honest man, : who only looks upon a victory as a triumph of principle. He is not a politician, and tho politicians are against hiin, but tho people love him fur the enemies he has made. II lu, He loes. Chicago 1 ribune. Eliphalet Howe, a New Englander. has Invented an attachment for bee-hives whereby the honey is abstracted syruptitiously. as it were, and without the bees' knowledge. His idea is that tho use of the device will result in a largely increased yield of honey. It this way Howe "does" the little buy bee. "My Inclitrra L.'fe Was saved by Hood's Sarsapariila.". says Mr. B. B. Jones of Alna, Me. "She had sevn running sores in diCerent places oa her body, but since giving her Hood's Sar- , saparilla she has become well, strong and I heailhy."