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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, 1892-TWELYE PAGES,

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TERMS FE II YEAR l.'rr! copT (InrariaMy in AdTanee.) -31 00 Wf ek deincmt to t ar in mind an J el'Ct th. ir irr ilttrpn when they cotuo to take subscrirw t:iand liiakc up cluh. Aftnts makir. t:) club- sect for ht lnforwistton temrcd. AddcfcsTlIL INDIAN AroI.IS SENTINEL Indianapolis. Ind. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 30. 1S92. TWELVE PAGES. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. To the Editor Sir: Having been in possession of therevieI Encyclopaedia Jiritannica about two weeks I am highly pieased with it. I marvel at the extrem low price that yon furnish it at. Ileing a stndent I lind it of great benefit to ine in the solution of a great many perplexing questions. I believe that all young readers or "The Sentinel should have it, and many thanks to you lor having been the medium through which I have been made able to procure so useful a book, which I consider tho best investment that I ever made for o small an amount of money. William P. Fakr. Lamong, Ind., Feb. CO. Tiir Bland silver bill had a close call in the house Thursday. "What its fata will eventually bo it is impossible to tell, as the test vote resulted in a tie. While that vote did not determine what action the house will take on free coinage it did enough to show the supreme folly of an attempt to make free coinage the democratic issue in the campaign. The party has one issue on which all its member) are agreed and that will be the iseue of the coming campaign. Fr.E?inEST IIarripo seems to have a strong predilection for free traders. His last three Indiana appointments were given to representatives of this class. Mr. CnAEi-E II. Aldkich, the new eo'.ici torgeneral, is an advanced free trader. So is Mr. Stanton J. Peeli.e, the excellent gentleman and violent partisan who has just "been named to the court of claims. So is Mr. John II. Bkf.r, who succeeds Judge Woods on the district beach. Mr. Bakek, when in congress, voted for a resolution, introduced by Mr. Miu.s, declaring that protection was robbery. Wonder when the president propoiea to give tho real, orthodox, McKinley republicans of Indiana a chance ! It would be woll for the party if every democratic county ticket couM be placed in tho field before the state convention is held nn the 21at of next month. Where this 13 impracticable the conventions should he held as eooa after that date as possible. It is useless to talk of a thorough state organization until the counties are organized, and it is equally out of the question toset a perfect county organization before a ticket i3 in the field. The state organization is like a huge mavhine, of which tho organization of each county is an individual but indispensable part, So long as one county is unorganized the Mate is unorganized. Let the counties get their tickets in the field and their organizations perfected so that the march to victory may begin bright and early on the morning after the etate convention. California ia wrought up by the uiscovery that the Pacific Mail steamship company, which was subsidized by the billion-dollar congress to promote the foreign commerce of the Pacific elope, has also been subsidized by the transcontinental railway lines to prevent foreign commerce of tho Pacific elope. The San Francisco Call (rep.) cays the company has, in the past lifteen years, received $14,505,000 from the railroads for this work, which it accomplishes Tty putting its transportation rates bo high that for eign trade is diverted to Europe and the Atlantic coast. The good are then shipped back by railroad toward the West. A cofTee dealer furaiahes the following striking comparison of rate?: Bates per 10 ) pounds, Bio de Janeiro to Chicago, via New York. 50 cents. San Jo?e de Guatemala to Chicago, via fan Francisco, S1.12J. kio de Janeiro to Denver, via New York, 31.25. San Jone de Guatemala to Danver, via San Fraucisco. SI.OUJ. It is evident that this combination is very detrimental to the business of California dealers. IiEPrri-icA.v papers that are talking about the overthrow of the Standard oil truei as a result of the federal anti-trust law will do we'd to take notice that the federal law had nothing to do with it. The decision was made by the supreme court of Ohio and is founded wholly on the statutes cf that täte. Ber-ides, it is very questionable if any greater result will be produced than a mtre change of form. The attorney of the trust eavs: It will take some tiiu to wind op the trust. But the busings will v'oonjuet the same, and will I e controlled by the same men who control the trust, because they own the majority of the stock in the various companies. The difference wiil limply be that they will control the companies as individual stockholders in the companies instead of a.s trustees. That ia to say, in futura they will represent the majority stockholders in control, and not both the majority and minority interests as well, ad they have done as trustees. Thtre are some thirty corporations erabraced in the trust at present, in five different states. It was the original plan of the trust deed to reduce as far as possible the number of corporations into one great corporation in each etate. That has not been pcssible.owing to the magnitude and rariety o.'our business. Put there are many small corporations which will now fce absorbed into the larger one, as far as the laws will permit, in order tbe simplify matters after tho wind-np of the trust. I cannot say until 1 have made a careful examination how many of these small companies will be wiped out, but I should rot be surprised if there were about a dozen or fifteen. If this is to b the rssult the trust might s wtll have been permitted to proceed in peace under its old system. Tjie president has nominated John II. Bakes of Goshen to be judge of the U.S. district court, and Stanton J. YtEX.Lt of this city to be a judge of the court of claims. The intense partisanship of the two new judges is perhaps the chief ebjo ticn to be urged against then, though the Jgrnj-r'a does connection with ra&rsad

interests in the past somewhat militates against the desirability of his selection. But Mr. Baker is understood to be a very able lawyer. Stanton J. I'eelle is a partisan of the most intense and rabid description. He it was who, as the attorney for tbe republican state central committee, defended the hundred or more republican boodlers, the indictments against whom for following the advice in Dudley's blocks-of-five letter wero quashed by Judge Woods. Aside from his partisanship Judge Peeli.e is a very amiable individual.

Mortgage Tax Exemption. At its session of 1S'.)1 the legislature of Michigan passed a law providing that the owner of mortgaged land should bo taxed on the value of his land lets the amount due on the mortgage, und the amount duo on the mortgage should bo assessed to the owner of the mortgage as an interest to that amount in the land. This is the provision against "double taxation" which has been very commonly demanded in the western states. The supreme court of Michigan has recently hell this law constitutional, three of tho judges taking that view, and two dissenting. It will probably go to the supreme court of tho United States on the question of violating the obligation of contracts as to existing mortgages. The court also holds that if the borrower agrees in the mortgage to pay the tax, the contract will be valid, even though the amount of tho tax added to tbe interest agreed upon should exceed 8 per cent, which is the maximum rate of interest under the Michigan law. The necessary result of this will be to produce tho earao effect that was produced in Massachusetts by a similar law, which, as ha3 been well said, "worked the exemption of tho money lender and left the borrower taxed more than before." In an address before tho farmers' institute at Williamsburg, Mass., on March 22, 1S0O, Mr. Henry Winn of Boston paid as to the working of this law : The borrower always assumes and pa) 8 the tax on his mortgaged land. This law has been in force nine years, and I challenge you to cite a single instance where the lender has borne tho tax on the morteaged land. It is patent and known of all men that tho borrower always does agree in the mortgage to bear the tax and ieave tho lender freo. I'nless, then, the lender has reduced his interest charge by reason of the law, the borrower has not profited one penny by it nay, he is worse oiFthan before, for he is compelled to pay his share of thetixrs the lmtir ivt rid of. Mr. Winn then proceeded by an exhaustive review of statistics to show that while there had been a general reduction of interest rates the redaction cn mortgage loans had been less than on any other securities, and that '"this law did not reduce interes-t rates in the leant, but only helps the mnoy lender, the man who, above all others, owes a tax." Aiter giving his arguments on the subject Mr. Winn continued : Do you think I am wrong on thu question of tnortzaeo exemption? Then ask President Seei.vc, whom you, in tiiis section, at least, all know nd trust. Ask Pehky and Dum -iiesteu, the a!le professors of political economy at Williams and Boston university. Ask the tax commissioner. As his predecess r, Gi.kason, who for seventeen years studied our tax laws and modified them more than any man now living. Ask Thomas II hi", twenty-five ytars at the bead of tho assessor's department in Boston, an authority wherever a tax law is discussed. Ask any man who has become distinguished for a comprehension of Massachusetts tax laws. All eUnd alike in denouncing this statute or petitioning for its repeal. This presentation of the facts under tho Massachueettfl mortgage exemption law has never been answered, and there is nothing to prevent precisely the same result from occurring in Michigan. Tho working of the experiment there will be watched with much interest by those who have been examing the question, but we venture the prediction that the Michigan law will mean simply the exemption of money-lenders from taxation. Tariff Iteform or Free Silver? The following resolution has been unanimously adopted by the New England tariff reform league: That tho New England tariff reform league protests, in tho name of tariff reform, against the passage of the Bland bill for the free coinage of silver; that, in the opinion of this league, euch a measure would bring disaster to tho business interests of the country; that its passage would obscure the issue of tariff reform, which should be the most prominent question before the people in the elections this year; and that wo feel it our duty to express to our friends in congress our conviction that neither tariff reform nor any other issue can save the party that pronounces for free coinage from disastrous defeat. The New England tariff reform league isa powerful organization. It has probably done more to break down republican tupremacy in New England r.nd build up the democratic partv in that section than rliv other agency. The educational work done by this league has been chiefly instrumental in returning ccven democratic representatives from Massachusetts. Tbe voice of the tariff reform league of New England should be heeded by tho democratic party in and out of congress. It must be evident to every intelligent observer, whatever hU viows on the silver question, that free coinage is not a winning issue this year. If the democratic party makes it an issue it will not carry a single electoral vote east of the Allegheny mountains. It will not get an electoral vote from any of the silver states upon the strength of this issue. Its chances in Indiana and the Northwest will not be in the slightest degree improved but most likely will be impaired if free silver is made the rallying cry. If the presidential battle is conducted upon this line it needs no seventh eon of a seventh son to predict that the democratic party will encounter overwhelming disaster next November. This would not, of coarse, be sufficient ground for discarding the free silver issue if it were of paramount importance or involved a great moral question. Bat this is not the case. The paramount issue is the issue of taxation. This is always the supreme political question under any representative government. The country is now cursed with an Illogical, vicious and oppressive revenue system. So long a this infamous revenue system is maintained the people cannot hope for any material relief from a change in our coinage system. Free silver will not in any degree lighten the burdens which the McKialejr law baa t'acad unon the

shoulders of the producing masses. The democratic party is practically united against this iniquitous law and in favor of the reduction of the tariff to a strictly revenue basis. Thj New England democrat and the California democrat are ia harmony on this question. There is no difference of opinion about the tariff between the Texas democrat and the Minnesota democrat. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the lakes to the gulf, every good democrat is a good tariff reformer. Tho great independent vote of the country is almost a unit for tariff reform. The powerful and influential independent press hf.s been teaching tariff reform for a generation. The institutions of learning are prolific nurseries of free traders. The great majority of the intelligent young men of the country, regardless of their inherited politics, are advanced tariff reformers. The farmers' organizations and the labor organizations of the country are in line with tho democratic party on the tariff. Ana finally, hundreds of thousands who have never voted anything but the republican ticket are prepared to vote with the democracy if it goes to the country upon this naked issue. On the tariff question the democratic party will be invincible in November. On the silver question it will be invisible. The entinel believes in tho wisdom and justice of free coinage. But it does not believe in sacriiicing tariff reform, good government and all the great popular benefits which will follow the restoration of the democratic party to power in an attempt, preordained to be futile, to rc-enthrone the "dollar of tho daddies." The supreme question of 1892 is the tariff. If the democratic party sticks to that question and leaves the silver question in abeyance it will ewetp the country next November; otherwise it wiil be "snowed under" as certain as November comes.

The Issue of Interest. Notwithstanding the ernet ertort.s of Col. Ik k Hill, the whipper-in of tho democrats, t secure a line attendance oi the democratic members to Tbe tariff discus ion of tho Fifty-second congress opened In the house of representatives today with Ki-presrniatire Mr. Mill. in (Telia.) as the vol ? upon the r solution leader of the tariff reform rtti"K apart throe days I forc and IUirejentaiie for tti consideration oft iMx.i.ttY (Me.) as tho tho silver bill, when tho dcfendTof the McKinley spt-aksr called the house j law. IVspits tb! wel -to orJer at noon he was ; known fact that a dlsoutconfrontel with a l.trce .um ot the laritl'is mainarray o! empty seats. ly a muter of coniinrison A.s'fi'it'i l'rett d t;-r,fi!i : of stüthtics and figures; jrom Wa.hiifjton,Mircli S. I that it is in its essential features but a presentation of apparently irrefutable, ret totally irreconcilable view. th galleries were well rrowjed lonj b'-fore tho hour of the opening, and the t utinc interest nianifmUd in the delate was crca: r than on any previous day f the session. fl.w)oV J ''. lipnlrh front Washington, March The foregoins nisr atches nro full of deep significance to tho democratic party of the United States. They contain a lesson which, if well learned ami acted upon, will lead the democracy to certain victory next fall; a lesson, to ignore which, puts democratic success in deadly peril, to .ay the lea.-t. According to these dispatches, when the silver question came up in the house very little interest was manifested in the discussion not enough to fill the seats on tho floor, to say nothing of those in tho galleries. This condition prevailed, too, in spite of the fact that a "row" was assured and that there was much doubt as to how largo numbers of the members of both parties would vote on tho subject a doubt which would naturally be expected to arouae a bhow of interest. On tho other hand, when the tariff debate oi ened in the house, though it was well known that there wouil be no 6ort of a "scene ;" though it was known to a vote how the housa would divide; though it was known that the argument would, in the main, be puiely statistical and would go over ground often covered before in spite of all these things every Feat on the floor and in the galleries was filled, and from the latter many eager would-be listeners were turned away. Taken in connection with the political history of the past few years the lesson ot these conditions is as plain as the day. It is that the tariff is the winning issue for democracy this year. In 1 S7 the democratic party declared for a tariff for revenue only aad swept the country. In 1S0, when its candidate and some of its leaders sought to dwarf the tariff issue, the party went down to defeat. In lsS l, on a platform for revenue only and a strict adherence to that declaration, tho democracy not only elected its president, but seated him. In 18SS the demand for tariff reform eocured tho adherence of a majority of the voters oi the country, though the democratic party was deprived of its victory through corrupt practices in New York and Indiana. In i'0, when tariff reform was again the issue made doubly distinct by tho passage of tho McKinley bill tbe democracy piled up majorities exceeding anything ever before known in the history of the country. The history of 1S"1 is still fresh in the public mind. In Iowa, Massachusetts and New Ycrk the democratic party stuck close by its tariff reform principles and carried those states by storm, largely increasing its power in each. But in Ohio the issue was abandoned; the democratic party took tho advice of its opponents, made silver the issue and lost all the advantage gained the year before. Tbe testimony of the dispatches quoted heretofore is borne out by all the newspapers of the country. Notwithstanding the division in both parties cn the silver question, the editorial columns of the newspapers still devote more space to tariff than to silver discussions. Especially is this true of republican papers, which, while their adversaries are proing and conning about silver, are devoting all their attention to an effort to convince people that the tariff is not a tax and that protection is good for the people. While the democratic press is fighting itself on the coinage issue, the republican press is befogging the mind of the voter with protection fallacies and undoing the great work of education which the democracy has so nobly carried on in times past. In the communications received by the newspapers from their readers the same overshadowing interest is manifested in the tariff. Democrats in the ranks are thoroughly conversant with this issue; they are fortified with facts, and nearly every voter of the democratic faith is already a itumD-esakwr on this vital

issue of taxation, armed with arguments to win republican and other voters to his side. With the conditions snch as they are what folly could be more supreme than to relegate the tariff issue to the background? On this issue the democrats have the riht on their side; they have the argument and tho fact?. On this they are united North. East, South and West. On this issue they know, from piet experience, that they can win. And in addition to this they have every evidence that it is the subject most on people's minds. United and thoroughly informed of their position and strength, with their opponents ever on the defensive: with everv weapon ot statistics and illustration at their hand: intrenched behind an impregnable wall of truth, an abandonment of the position would be an act cf political suicide, unsurpassed for stupidity in the history of the world. The Silver Dollar. To the Editor Sir: In tho event of free coinage becoming a law how and in what way will it depreciate tin silver dollar as is claimed, and bring about financial and commercial disaster? This question is being discussed pro and con. Will you please give us your views in tho ense ami if p esible enlighten us upon the subject? I am requested by our peoplu here to submit the question for yor.r answer. liidgeviile, Ind., March 12. L. J. Neither free coinage nor anything els can depreciate tbe silver dollar so Ion. as the covernment of tho United States is not bankrupt ami does not repudiate it. Even if the bullion value of the silver in a dollar were to depreciate until it was worth no more than the paper in a paper dollar, the piiver dollar would still be worth a dollar in gold or in anything clap. The si'ver in a silver dollar is worth only 70 cents in gold at preeent, but tho dollar is worth 100 cents in gold. A free coinage law could not depreciate the value of the silver from which dollars are made. On the contrary its object, and its inevitable effect, wouid be to increase tbe bullion value of silver. The only way in which commercial disaster could result from free coinage would be through the failure of the credit of tho United States, and there is no immediate danger of that. The disaster argument is based on the hypothesis that the government will coin so much silver, and silver will fali so low, that the government will be unable to maintain its equality with gold by maintaining its leal tender quality. That will hardly wash in a country that has been able to handle an absolute debt of nearly three billions, and whose resources are daily increasing. Even more fallacious and untrue are the propositions that pensioners get only 70 cents instead of a dollar when paid in silver and that all laborers are served likewise. If any person doubts it lie can step into the nearest bank and change five Bilver debars for a five-dollar gold piece w henever he wants to, or i-r rcrta. That sort of an argument is pure rot. Nevertheless Tin: Sentinel thinks it inexpedient for the democratic party to take up the free coinage matter at present. We believe that this issue was brought forward by republicans to distract attention from the tariff is.u which is vastly more important, and on whicii we can win the next election. The democratic party would be foolish to fall ioto such a trap. It has made a long, hart light for tarilf reform, and now victory is practically within its grasp. All that is needed is to be true to its avowed principles. To lay asido its advantage and take up a new isr'Ue, on which it is not united, would be maduess.

Ijow Prices for Farm Producta. The Philadelphia Tnquirrr (rep.) takes tho following solemn view of the commercial outlook : The prices oi the five leading commodities have been reduced to very low levels. Iron, Kilver and silk are now selling for less than at any tinio in the history of tho world since records have been kept, cotton is lower than in almost had a century. Apparently the influences that produced these conditions are still at work, for prices vielded ail around last week. Cotton went off' an eighth of n ceut, wool was a shade weaker and there is no sign of a reduction in the piur iron output. Wool stocks are large both in Europe and this country, and the coming wo jI sales in London are regarded with some apprehension by holders. Even the price of grain, which has been firm because of the European shortage, is beginning to weaken. Wheat declined 4 cents, corn u cents and oats 2 cents. Petroleum worked lower in sympathy with other articles and declined 2 cents. There is nothing especially strango in this, but it is remarkable that the Inquirer should attribute this partly to overproduction and partly to the Baring failure. It would be absurd to attributo the decline in all the articles to the tame causes. Tiiat of silver is clearly due to its demonetization. Cotton appears to be a case c f overproduction. Iron ond wool are the victims of tariff legislation, which has boomed the "shoddy" ir.dus.try until in INK) the United States produced 100,000,OtX) pounds of shoddy and '.'2,000,000 pounds of sound wool. The Inquirer should have the boldness of its republican contemporary, the Chicago Tribune, which says: The way to raiso the price of American wool and check the uae of adulterants is to tako the duties off wool. More foreign fleeces would bo imported, but they would not take the place of American wool, but of tiiese adulterants and manufactured goods now imported. Then the use ot shoddy, which the Lawrences and Blrkowses said they meant to stop bv their high duties, would be checked, and cheaper wool uted instead. The woolen manufacturers must have free wool, or they will resort to cheap, rotten, course, dishonest substitutes. Have not the consumers some interests at stake? They number iV,000,0 KJ, and nothing could be done which would benefit thern more than to free-list wool. The more foreign wool utied the greater the quantity of domestic wool consumed and the better the price paid for it. Minnesota is practically unanimous for Cleveland. Of thirty-seven counties one instructs for a western man, and one sends an uuinetructed delegation. Hill has not a delegate. There is one issue, and one only, on which the democratic party can carry the presidential election. And that is the issue of tariff reform. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. B. W. Stewart, Cason, Ind.: ec. 5 of of the Sherman silver act provides that "eo much of the act of Feb. 28, 1878, entitled 'An act to authorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar and to restore its legal tender character' as requires the

monthly purchase and coinage of the same into silver dollars of not lees than ?2,000,000 nor more than $4,000,0iX) worth of silver, is hereby repealed." This provision does not in any way affect the lecal tender quality of the silver dollar of 412 grains. It simply stops the compulsory coinage of silver dollars as prescribed bv the act of 1N7S. F. J. It. breaker Crisrj is an American citizen by birth and eligible to the presidency of tho United States. He was born in Enzland while hie parents, American citizens, were visiting that country. JUDGE WOODS' CONFIRMATION

Condemned as Weakening Public Confidence in the Courts. X. Y. Tim es. 1 The effort to defeat the confirmation of Judge Woods' appointment to a place on the bench of the supreme court has proved unavailing, but that will not dissipate the very general impression that he is unlit for the place. Notwithstanding the elaborate defense that he has made of his charge to the Indiana grand jury in the Dudley cane, fortified by correspondence with Justice Harlan, ex-Senator McDonald and Judge Niblack, none but republicans who countenance the Quay and Dudley stylo of politics Mill doubt that bis second charge was intended to save Dudley from indictment for counseling crime in the blocks-of-five letter. The appointment was intended as a vindication, if not a reward, and the senate has absented to it. It will have the effect of distinctly weakening confidence in the supreme court whenever it has questions to deal with into which political considerations enter. I' inter n Cloud. Chicago Times. I The advice and consent of the senate to the president's nomination of Judge Woods of Indianapolis as a member of the appellate bench was secured by a majority of one vote after the president had personally exerted himself to obtain just the result he was laboring for. In the narrow, vulgar sense Judge Woods earned his promotion. But the means employed were such as to the popular conscience can not possibly recommend bim. His recantation of a charge to a grand jury in a matter which involved Dudley and might have touched upon bis friend Harrison, whose law partner, now attorney-general of the United States, collected campaign funds in Chicago for use in Indiana, ha never been adequately explained. He blew hot and blew cold, a most unjudicial proceeding, and the remark may be ventured that had Dudley gone to the penitentiary Woods would have failed of promotion on the federal bench. Judgo Woods will don Ids gown under a cloud of suspicion which wilt impair public confidence in his capacity. It Will Not Out. (.'eve'.and Plaindcaler-l The long struggle over the confirmation of tho judges of the new circuit court of appea l ended by the senate's confirming the entire batch, including the notorious Judge Woods of Indiana. The other appointments ranged from fair to excellent and there was no opposition to them, but that of Woods was disgraeoiul. It was a shameful degradation of the judiciary to partisan purpose, it will be unfortunate if the Seventh circuit judge of the court of appeals has to pass upon a case in which partisan politics enters ever so remotely. His decision, however it may accord with the facts, will be received with distrust on account uf the manner iu which he gained his seat in the circuit court of appeals. That "damned spot" on his judicial ermine will not "out." Would Hrir Mini to Suicide. U-jsliTille Jacksonian.l The little cheap praise that Judge Woods got from party friends for bringing disgrace on the high office beheld by saving Dudley from the penitentiary hns cost him dearly. Not one man in ten in all the country now regards him as an honest man. The name of Woods will always bring to the mind of those who hear or "think of it a corrupt judge. That thought itself would drive a more sensitive man to suicide. I sgrnra on th Judletwry. Kvansrille Courier.) Judge Woods has been confirmed by a vote ot 23 to 22, a baro majority of one in a senate where his political friends have eight majority. There is no other case on record like it, and a man of decent sensibilities would not accept the position unier the circumstances. But then a man of decent sensibilities would not have been guilty of conduct that has brought dishonor upon the judiciary. Not Compatible. South I'end Times. Judge Woods finally pulled through by the skin of his teeth. His nomination as circuit judge of the court of appeals was on Thursday confirmed by the senate by a majority of one. This M as truly a narrow escape, and ought to serve as a reminder to the judge for the remainder of of his life that party work on the bench is not compatible with judicial dignity and righteousness. Wood Kronipmed. (Muncie Herald. 1 Woods' services in the Dudley frauds have been recompensed, and now all that remains to complete the infamy is to put Dudley in some soft place under the government for life. Harrison should do this and let the book bo closed and sealed, and across the cover writo "A record of the rewards given to m?n who served the purposo of thwarting the will of the peopie of Indiana, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight." On Mar Dark Spul. Madison Herald. Woods has been confirmed by one vote, notwithstanding the opposition of the democratic senators, and this adds one more dark spot on Harrison and Harrison's administration. A Dn;rsceful Act. (LonisTille Couiier Journal. The nomination of Judge Woods of Indiana, as judge of the Seventh judicial circuit, was continued by the senate yesterday by the republican vote. It was a disgraceful act. What Ilroucht It About. IKIchraonJ Ifidopendentl The sins Judge Woods is charged with the president is familiar with but possibly bcaueo of this very familiarity tho appointment and confirmation was brought aboit. I!r tho Skin ut III Tth. Louisville Times Judge Woods, like Job, was saved by the skin of his teeth, but the resemblance between the two stops right thero. Got HI lUwar.t. rr -f., .1. Tn..-n.i l Woods was confirmed by a party yote and has received his reward for keeping LJuaiey oui oi tne penitentiary. A Sondlua Nomination. Frankfort CrescentThe nomination was a scandalous one and ought never to have been confirmed. Will positively cure sick headache and retent its return. Carter's Little Liver 'ills. This is not talk, bat truth. One pill a dosu. See advertisement. 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IT A CLEBOTatAX There are various conceptions of the church which divide Christians up into opposite, and sometimes warring, camps Euch as the pietiptic theory, which exalts inward states of feeling and makes earth naught and beaten a'l ; the sacerdo tal theory, which crowns the priest as a prince and dwarfs the congregation into subjects ; the practical theory, which emphasizes every-day duty and sanctifies common life, and no end of others, repre senting every type of mind and every vagary ot thougnt. Nevertheless there is unitv in this di versity. All Christians (when they stop fi nding at each other brickbats of coutroversy over man-made walls of separation and think) agree that tis their foremost obligation to be "Christed into Christ." in the strong phrase of the late Pev. Dr. Bushneil. Under ail ecclesiastical theories the end professed Iv aimed at is the repro duction in each feature of the Man of Nazareth. This simplifies the whole issue and oilers a common platform upon which Christians of a!i denominations can stand the reincarnation cf Jesus in every disciple. This means that we are to think His thoughts, speak His wor-is. do His deeds. We are to transfer His spirit to our environment, and embody it not onlv ourselves, but animate with it civilization at large. An eminent thinker reminds us that "the church has no right to allow its enemies to outstrip it in the study of the means by which civilization may be fully consecrated to the improvement ot hu man conditions." And in the same vein Oen. Booth, in his "Darkest England, asks: "Why all this apparatus of temples and meeting houses to save men from per dition in a world which is to come while never a helDing hand is stretched out to save them from the inferno of their pres ent life? Is it not time that, forgettine lor the moment our wranglings about the infinitely little or infinitely obscure, we should concentrate all our energies in a united effort to break this terrible perpetuity of perdition and to rescue some, at least, of thoso for whom our Founder came to die?" But while this should be a chief purpose of the church, let it be remembered that 'tis not its function, to borrow the words of Tourgee. "to devise remedies ; that is the function of government, the duty of eociety. The function of the church is only to inspire action; to provide impulse; to exact and purify motive; to incline men to apply the Christ spirit to collective human relations." When this is done all else will follow. Legislation will be patterned on the golden rul. Posaessions like wealth, knowledge and influence will be regarded as trusts and their possessors as tru.-ted. Social problems will ba looked at through tho eyes of Christ and solved in his spirit. The world-old and world-wide questions of human need and human duty will find a settlement at last on the only basis that is permanent und satisfactory that f equity interpreted by love. Yes, issues which have vexed and angered society ever since the days of Moses and Plato will be finally and peacefully adjusted when Christians reincarnate Jesus Christ. The Christ of Palestine started the revolution. A society of little Christa must end it and secure the fruits. 'Tis a wise and pregnant saying of Bishop J. H. Vincent that one's personal relation to politics where the government is wholly beyond the reach of the individual, as in the davs of the Ca sars, is very different from the relation be sustains where every individual becomes responsible for the character of the government, as with us. An interesting paper has just been printed by Dr. Screiber of Barmen on the prospects of Islam. He calculates that of the 175,000,000 Moslems 100,000,000 ore already subject to Christian powere, and that it will not be long before the remaining 75,000,000 will be in the eame condition. As a political power Islam has falien, and the loss of its political power is crushing and ruinous. If Islam is gaining a little in Africa among the negro tribes, it is losing ground everywhere else. The church missionary society reports 1,000 new converts from Mohammedanism, the Bhenish society 2,000, and in Java there are 12,000 Christiane, most of whom were formerly Moslems. Mohammedanism had a mission the destruction of polytheism. This mission it has performed over a wide territory. The world is now ready to go on and up from monotheism to Christianity. "Many Christians who bear the loss of a child or the destruction of their property with Christian fortitude are quite vanquished by the breaking of a dish or the blunder of a servant, and show such an GOOD

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unchristian spirit that we canno'but wonder at them." Thus wrote Jobnewton a century ago. Observation a:i ex-

erience avouch it now. as then. Yhv is this? Is it because we brace ourselves to meet great emergence, eo that they find us prepared, whiMittle , perplexities and daily trials takeus unawares and surprise us unto wrah and outbreak:? Whatever the cause, 'tis as much the part of true religion tc beget equanimity in triJles and eelf-cotrol in daily ttlaira as to make us benes and heroines amid bhipwrecic and deah. Happiness does not depend upon the Fourth of July, but on wash day and sleeping; day. One of the master artists is eait to hare mixed his colors with his bra'V,-,. That it a strong combination; there is but cn better mixing our brains with car neart. There are facts connected witl the rinsj linger, remarks an obeervant moralist, which render it in a peculiar nanner an appropriate emblem of mitrimonial union. It is the only finger those two principal nerves belong to twe dietinct trunks. The thumb is suppliel with ita principal nerves from - the zodial lerve, as are also the fore-finger, the midde linger and tho thumb side of the third or rinn finger, while the u:nar nerve furniihes the little finger and the other bideof tie third or ring lingi-r, at the extremity oi which tfie two Dervesare joined in a real union. It thus seems as it it were intended by nature to ba the matrimonial finget. That the side of the ring finger n?xt ti the little linger is connected with tie ulnar nerve is frequently proved by a common accident that of striking the elbow tig.iinst tny hard elge, when, if the nerve is touched, a thrilling sensation is felt in the little finger and on the same silo of the ring finger, but not on the other eile of it. A professional politician is one who serves Cod just as far as he can without ollending the devil. The family bible of George Washington's mother, now owned br Mrs. Lewis Washington cf Charleston, W. Ya., has been loaned for exhibition at Mi. Vernon. It has a cover of homespun cloth put on by its original owner. The Washington J 'oft eays that the book is wonderfully well preserved, sll the leaves being intact save the frst five or six, which were torn out and placed in the corner stone of the Mary Washington monument at Fredericksburg, Ya. The first entry in it is of the marriage of Augustine Washington and Mary Ball, in 17;U. and the next is ot the birth of George Washington, Feb. 11, 17:J2(0. S.). J Dr. M. D Höge has been forty-seven years paster of the Second pcesbyterian church in Richmond, Ya. Only one of the original members of the church it now living. responsibility is personal. Before God, face to face, each soul must stand to giva account. V. W. Robertson. We cannot always be doing a great work, but we can always be doing something that btdongS to our condition. To be silent, to sutler, to pray, when we cannot act. is acceptable to God. Fenelon Unbelief does nothing but destroy. It makes the world a moral desert, where no divine t'ootsteps are heard, where no angels ascend and descend, where no living hand adorns the field, feeds the birdi of heaven, or regulates events. A'rumin'ichcr. Freedom in religion must not mean lreedom from religion. BUhop II. IJ H'armi. He doesn't like study, it "wsskent bis eyes," Hut ttn rieht sort of b-joks will insure a surprise; 1 t it ! aliout Ind ati, pirates or bears. Ami he's lost for the dnv to all mundane affairs; lfy sunlight or gaslight h s rision is clear; how, isn't that queer? At thnuaht of an errand he's "tired as a houn4,'' Very weary ot life a til of "trampins; around;" Hut if tli re's hand or a circus la sisht, l( wili follow it gladly from tuornin till night, The showman wiil rapture him some day, I fear, l or he is so queer. If there's work la the garden his bead "aches ta split," And his hack is so lame that be "can't d" : a bit." Hut nieDt on base hall and he's cared Tery sooa. And he'll din for a woodchuck the whole afternoon Lo you think be "plays 'possum?" IIa aeems quit sincere. But, isn't be queer? Sr. Nicholas. Bishop Taylor's "self-supporting missions" received last year 520,359.00 and expended about the eame amount. Th' bishop is now in London, whither he has gone to complete arrangements for building a new eteamer for the river Kassai to enable missionaries to reach the populous and healthy regions beyond. "Are there not women?" asks Emerson, "who inspire us with courtesy ; who unloose our tongues and we speak; who anoint our eyes and we see? We say things we nover thought to have said, for once our walls of habitual reserve van ished. and left ua at large. Steep us, we cried, in these influences for days and weeks, and we shall be sunny poets, and mill write out in many colored words thai romance that you are." Pain from indigestion, dyspepsia, and too hearty eating, is relieved at once by takine one of Carter's Little Liver Pills immediately after dinner. Don't forgel this. LUCK.