Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1892 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 11. 1892-TWELVE PAGES-

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

(later td at tii Postofflre t Indlanapoli as second ciw matter. TEEMS I'EU TEAR firele eopv (Inviriahly in Advance.) Wl 00 IV ark democrat to l rar In mind and elrct th.ir (vd stat pnper when they coma to take subecrlr tit'm ar.d make up clubs. A tri is jr.akinpr on club wnd for anr Information coircd. AdUeaaTHE !MdAAIOLIS SENTINEL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY. MAY 11. 1S2. TWELVE PAGES. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. IxriAyAroLis Sentinel Compart: We received the "Encyclopaedia Britannic" all right, and are highly pleased with it. It is much more than I expected, and U cenainly a very excellent work. Please accept our thanks. Yonn respectfully, LESTKÄ L. AiUSON. Malott Tark, April 2. . To th Editor .Sir: Having been in possession of the revised Encyclopaedia lirltannica about two weeks 1 am highly pleased with it. I marvel at the extreme low price that you fnrnish it at. Being a student 1 rind it of great benefit to me 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 for having been the medium through which I have been made able to procure so useful at book, which I consider the best investment that I ever made for so small an amount of money. "William D. Parr. Two Great Stories. " "We have in hand two exceedingly interwting stories, one of which will be comnenced in next Weekly Sentinel. This atier was written by the famous Englishman, Oscar Wilde, which we are permitted to publish through the courtesy of the American publishers, Messrs. Dorr, Mead k Co., of New York. It is entitled "A Sreat Ghost Story," and will run through thrse or four issues of The Weekly Senticel As soon as it is completed it will be followed by a longer Eerial of the most fascinating type, entitled "Old Man Gilbert," for which we are indebted to the publishers of Belfora" Monthly. This delightful story has been pronounced one of the most vigorous and intensely entertaining romances ever written by an American. The author is Elizabeth W. Ejcllamy, who has also written "Four Oaks' and "Little Joanna," under the twm de phwie of "Kamba Thorpe." Tbirx will be one material difference between the campaign of 1SSS and that of 1SD2. In the former the republicans talked through grandfather's hat. In the coming one they will have to use JJenjaRcssell Harrison in an interview in the good Brother Shepard's Hail and Express declares that he never knew anything about those 5,000 shares of Yellowstone park association, but he has come to the conclusion that they were set aside for him with malicious intent by some enemy. Very likely. But it will be very difficult to force people into Russell's way of thinking. Mb. Watterson saya in the CourUrJournal that the only newspapers in New York City which support Mr. Cleveland are the mugwump papers. But he nejrlecta to say that in New York City there is only one newspaper which can by any stretch of courtesy be called democratic. That is the World, which, while not urging Mr. Cleveland's nomination, is not opposing it. The IVorll is exceedingly friendly to Mr. Cleveland, and has been unsparing in its opposition to the Hill-Tammany program, and especially the mid-winter snap convention. Throughout the etate of Neqr York the recognized democratic journals thoee of the largest circulation, the higheet character and the greatcet influence are, with scarcely an txception, earnest advocated of Mr. Cleveland's nomination. To thk Editor Sir: Will you etat whether a ballot that fchewn the stamp of ;he voter after lein? vote i is Ie?al? At the recent city election the ballots were printed on paper that ihowd both the Itamp an i the initials of the poll clerk after being properly folded. Old Subscriber. Hartford Citj, Ind., Maj o. Presumably the inquirer means that the tamp showed through the ballot, as on a ballot that is "properly folded" the initial of the poll r'erkn must ehow, but no part of the face of the ballot can be seen. A ballot on which the stamp shows through docs not comply with the law. but it would not probably be invalid ho - far as the result of the flection is concerned. The law (sec. 20) requires that ballots shall be "of the same quality and color of paper, and sufficiently thick that the printing cannot be distinguished from the back." It is the duty of the board of lection commissioners to enforce this provision, and they are subject to fine, im prison men t, and disfranchisement (sec. SI) ht willfully failing to do eo. Says the Jeffersonville Xeus: It is intimated by pome Indiana papers that the Cleveland men in the delegation to the Chicago convention will not abide by the compromise, but will split off. "Where these papers get their authority from is not known, and it is exceedingly doubtful whether any Indiana delegate would be foolish enough at this moment to be the cause of contention. The voters would no doubt visit any foolishness or strife with proper punishment. There is ro kind of strife in Indiana and there must be none. The Xcv i is right. There will be perfect harmony in the Indiana delegation. The Cleveland members will abide loyally by the action of the state convention. They willwork heartand soul for the nomination of the man whom that body unanimously pronounced "the logical candidate." The anti-Cleveland members of the delegation if tbers are any will do the same thin?, as in honor bound. If, however, the national convention rejects the logical candidate then, and not until then the entire delegation will work heart and soul to secure the nomination for Isaac P. Grat. The decision as to the expediency of nominating Mr. Cleveland is left with

the national convention and not with the Indiana delegation. No member of the delegation will attempt to influence that decision against the man whom the Indiana democracy has with euch tremendous emphasis characterized as the ''logical candidate." There will be perfect harmony and entire concert of action in the delegation.

Henry Wattersoit's Folly. Mr. IIf.xry Wattersox, in a letter from Washington to the four ur-Journal, savs: That Mr. Cleveland is, and has been since the question of a presidential nominee took the firr-t place in democratic thoughts, the choice of an overwhelming majority of democrats outside of the state of New York, no well-informed observer can or will dony. Again: That Mr. Cleveland is largely the pop ular favorite, and that it is never safe for place-seekers or place-holders to oppose the wishes of the people, will account for the reticence of nine out of ten of thoso democrats who, feeling and believing that Mr. Cleveland can not bo elected, and freely admitting this in their personal intercourse, refuse to speak out their minds like men, but instead allow themselves to be used as witnesses to a false hood both dangerous and cruel to their party. In the face of these admissions, Mr. Watterson declares that it would be political suicide for the democratic party to renominate Mr. Cleveland "because," he pays, "of two simple, conclusive reasons." The alleged "reasons" are as follows: First, he would lose the state of New York as surely and as disastrously as it was lost bv Judge (olger, when a hun dred thousand republicans stayed away from the polls And gave the f täte to Mr. Cleveland by nearly two hundred thousand majority. And, second, with his proclaimed and extreme views upon silver coinage we could not hope to gain votes in a single one of the republican states of the Northwept, and would purelv risk the loss of such states as West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. These eo-called "reasons" for maintain ing that Mr. Cleveland's nomination would be democratic suicide are simply no reasons at all. They are only the expression of Mr. Watterson'8 individual opinions, which are unconsciously, no doubt, colored by his preferences and prejudices. His opinions are worth no more than those of any other good demo crat of intelligence and good opportuni ties for studying the situation. Against Mr. Watterson's dictum that Mr. Cleveland would "surely lose the state of New York," we put the contrary assurances of the democratic press of that etate and of citizens of New YorK in whom the country has the utmost confidence. When euch men as Chahi.es S. Faikchild and Frederick II. Coi'dekt and William Ii. Gracb and euch newspapers as the Brooklyn Eagle, the Buffalo Courier, the Albany Argus, the Syracuse Courier and the Utica Ohrrier unito in saying that Mr. Cleveland would be stronger in New York than any other democrat who could be named, we are bound to believe them in preference to those who said Mr. Tilden could not carry New York in 187, w ho pledged Hancock 50,000 majority in that etate in 18S0, and who said in 1881 that Mr. Cleveland would lose the 6tate by 50,000 if nominated. As to the northwestern states, the only ones which are at all debatable appear to be as 6trongly oppo-ed to free silver as is Mr. Cleveland himself. There is every reason to believe that the latter, if nominated, will carry Wisconsin, and he would have an excellent chance to carry Illinois and Iowa. No other democrat could possibly carry more than one of these etatee. What is the matter with Henry Wattersox, anyway? Time was and that not many years ago when he would have scouted, and did scout, the idea of the national democracy submitting to Tammany dictation. He made his reputation as a journalist and a politician by his brave and wise insistence, in the face of tremendous opposition, that the democratic party should be true to great principles, and should adhere to the leadership which personified such principles, regardless of every thine. In those days of Mr. Wattehson'.s glory he cared nothing; for the clamor of demagogues and time-servers. The clatter of spoilsmen and jobbers did not disturb him in the least. lit; despised alike the whining of the cowards and the threats of the mercenaries. He had 1 deals in thoie days, and ho fonirht for Uiem. He believed that the democratic party had a cause and a mission, and he insisted that it ehould always be faithful to them. For the results he was willing to trust liotl and the people. But Mr. Watterson and the Courier-Journal have lowered their political standards of late years, and now thev are carefully trimming their eaila to every breeze that blows. Today they are calling upon th democratic party to abandon the man whom they ad mit to be the choice of an overwhelming majority of its members, run away from the issue which this man pre-eminently personifies, and name eomo obscure favorite son or other, who stands for nothing and moans nothing all at the behest of a band of New York professional politicians, whose promises to the national democracy, whether of success or disaster, have never yet been ful filled. It won't do. Mr. Watterson. You told the democratic party, in your golden days, to be true to its principles and true to itself, and it could afford to let consequences take care of themselves. It has not forgotten your teachings, if you have. It has even more courage and more conscience than it ha i when you were so much better equipped with both than you eeem to be today. Justice Is Done. The people of Dubois county and, in a lesser degree, the people of the whole state of Indiana, are to be congratulated on the result of the white cap trials. A death blow has been given to this cowardly species ot crime in Dubois county, and the lesson thus administered cannot fail to haveasaiutary effect elsewhere in Indiana. In the conviction of these four white caps the good people of Dubois have given a high testimonial to their own good citizenship. The crime for which four men hare been eent to the penitentiary mi nnt mn Ksr-rmvuteil in r ha meter as liianv others which have disgraced the state, and was the first of the kind ever committed in Dubois county. But it id likely to be the last, for the people and their courts met the innovation with a response ex

ceedingly discouraging to those having a penchant for masked night riding, the whipping of old men and helpless women and the midnight assassination of personal foes. Every good citizen will glory in this triumph of justice. For several years the state has been disgraced and certain sections terrorized by the lawless acts of hooded marauders, who, professing to seek public order and claiming to enforce private morality, have committed all manner of outrages on persons and property. The Sentinel has ail along maintained that the communities in which these outrages have occurred have been, through their public officials, responsible for the repetition of these crimes; it has held that if the people had demanded it and their officials had performed their full duty, whitecapping could have been suppressed and the white caps made to pay the penalty of their crimes. The result of the Dubois county trial demonstrates the soundness of these positions beyond all possibility of successful dispute. The. trouble has ever been that the public servants, whose duty it is to suppress such outbreaks of lawlessness, have not done their whole duty, and that their neglect has only too often been the result of indifference on th part of their

constituents. The crime of wbitecapping itself is a peculiar one. It is not practiced by individuals, but by groups or cliques. That being the cape there is much reason to be lieve that officials whose position depends on votes will wink at the violations of the law and that private citizens will often repress their indignation either from fear of the vengeance of the malefactors or through a desire to avoid neighborhood unpleasantness. But such officials on the one band are violating their oaths of office, and such private citizens are neglecting the requirements of pood citizenship. It will not do to reply that it is difficult to detect the perpetrators of these crimes. It is not. Wherever and whenever a con spiracy is entered into to do a lawless act that moment the purpose of the conspirators becomes public property. Nothing that is thus done is longer a secret and not all the bloodcurdling oaths ever administered beneath the creaking pines, ty the lLdit of sputtering pitch knots, can keep it so. The doings and thoughts of the organization are heralded broadcast throughout the region till every member of the community is familiar with the details and the conscientious public official can have no difficulty in piling evidence mountain high against the violators of the law. All these facts the thinking public knows; it knows that everv protestation of inability to ferret out and punish is a deliberate falsehood or a confession of cowardice, and in either event it will hold responsible not only the official who neglects his duty hut also the community which tolerates such official's malfeasance; and on both it will place the stigma of deserved disgrace. How Republicans Fought Ballot Iteform in Indiana. In discussing the platform of the Indiana democracy, which it indorses, the New York Evening i'o recently said : The whole nation has reason to rejoice over the wisdom of the Indiana democrats, under the leadership of The Indian u-olis Sentinel, in insihting upon the adoption of the Australian eystem and carrying through the reform in the face of bitter opposition from republican organs and politicians. Indiana has long been a cloe and doubtful htate, and for a good many years past its elections have been notorious for their corruption. The scandal culminated with the notorious "blocks-of-five' campaign in 18SS, when Harrison secured his narrow plurality oi 2,04$ in a total poll of 5öti,80'J by methods which disgraced his partv and his state. This year for the first time Indiana will have a presidential election in which bribery and intimidation cannot be practiced. It is the misfortune of the republicans that every candid observer thinks their chances of carrying the rtate much injured by the adoption of the secret ballot. To this the Indianapolis Journal excepts, saying that the Pott probably got its information from the editor of The Sentinel, and denying the assertion that the republicans opposed the enactment of the Australian law. We do not know where the PoM got its information, but we do know that it didn't gut it from the editor of The Sentinel or anybody connected with The Sextinkl. But, no matter from what source it came, the 1'osi's information is correct. The Australian law in Indiana was enacted axainat the very vigorous opposition of the republican party under the leadership of the Indianapolis Journal. The filei of the Journal furnish ample proof of the truth of this assertion. At the legislative hestdon of ISSOthe Andrews bill now the Australian law was introduced and passed without material amendment. The Journal opposed it as "cumbersome," "complicated," "expensive," etc., and predicted that "no good would come of it." When this bill was reported to the eenate Jan. 28, 1889. the Journal put these headlines over the announcement of the fact: "Andrews Election Bill Democrats Propose to Have Voting Done by a Strictly Complicated Syetem Restrictions That Place the Illiterate Elector at the Mercy of Party Heelers Who Will Undertake to Manage AffairsA Safe Method of Registration Does Not Meet with Democratic Support." Feb. 4, 1889, the Journal again turned its attention to the Andrews bill, sneering at the democrats for "proposing to pass an election bill based on the Australian system on tho ground that it is a reform measure," and reproduced, with approving comments, a statement by a New Jereey senator denouncing the Australian eystem as "too complicated to be understood," and as a scheme which would "enable the election officer to carry an election by the deception of ignorant voters." The Journal added: Advocacy of the Australian system is a convenient subterfuge, since it it usually classed as a reform measure, but as the Jersey senator ears, it offers sample opportunities for fraud. In New Jersey popular sentiment in that direction is somewhat less urgent, and as the democratic majority is satisfied with the opportunities for fraud afforded by the existing law they prefer not to change. In referring to the Australian system on Feb. 8, the Journal aaid: "It does not follow that because it originated in Australia it is the perfection of human wisdom or that it embraces everything that should be included in an American law." It charged that the Andrews bill would dis

franchise illiterate voters, end paid: "The pending bill seems open to the charge of cumberBomeness and intricacy." Feb. 11 the Journal falsely charged that the bill made no provision for illiterate voters and took up a half column of editorial in denouncing it for this reason. In its head lines Feb. 15 announcing the passage of the bill the Journal gave it a liberal denunciation as follows: "Taking Care of the Party Democrats Pass One of Their Pet Measures with Republican Help The Expensive and Cumbersome Election System That Is to Be Tried Democrats Meddling with a Reform About Which They Know Nothing." In the senate eleven republicans and but one democrat voted against the bill. March 1 the Journal pronounced both the Australian law and the school book law "worthless for good results" and added of the former: The expense of elections will be more than doubled, while the persistent refusal to enact a registry law deprives the people of the most important help to honest elections. It remains to be seen whether the so-called Australian system, with it abundant and complicated machinery, will not leave wide-open doorB for political corruption, or become an engine for the exclusion of legal votes. But these extracts might be continued almost indefinitely, all goiogto prove that the Journal opposed the Australian law juet as far as it dared, in the face of the then existing popular indignation against the frauds which had given its candidate for president the electoral vote of Indiana. The Evening Post is right. The republicans, led bv the Journal, did oppose the enactment of tho Australian law, and

and they opposed it through fear that it would prevent them from carrying the state by bulldozing and bribery, as they had done in 1S80 and The State Finances. To the Editor Sir: You will confer a favor bv answering the followiug: 1. What was our state levy in 1S90? 2. What is the present levy? 3. What is the indebtedness of our State? 4. What party created this debt; when, and for what purpose? Ri'ssell Wise. Lancaster, Ind., April 27. Replying in the same order: 1. 12 cents on 100. 2. 12 cents on $100. There is also a special levy of 6 cents on $100 for tho maintenance of the state's benevolent institutions, the annual cost of which has increased about $r,00,(KX since tho twelvecent levy was first made in 1877. 3. The total debt reported Oct. 31, 1S01, was $3,82o,14:.13. Of this amount $44.000 is bonds due to the Stato university and Purdue university, which does not represent money expended. That is to say. the etate donated them these bonds and pays interest on them for the support of the institutions. The debt created by expenditures is $3.342,1-13.13. 4. Of the total debt crea'ted by expenditures $4,833,783.12 was made by the republicans, and $3,483,302.01' by the democrats. What the republicans did with their part no one has ever been able to explain, but it was made before the democrats came into ' power." They built no state buildings except a soldiers' orphans' home at Knightstown, which afterward burned down and was rebuilt by the democrats, and the old state buildings at the corner of Washington and Tennessee-sts. which have been sold. Their total expenditures for buildings were less than $200,000. The democrats expended $707,500 for furnishing the new capitol, which was in excess of the tax levied for building; $1,500.000 for the new insane hospitals at Richmond, Logansport and Evansville; $200,000 for the soldiers and sailors' monument, and the remainder for other buildings needed for the state, among which the more important are the institution for the feebleminded at Fort Wayne, new soldiers' orphans' home at Knightatown, new normal school at Terre Haute, new building at the institute for the blind, new school building at the institute for tho deaf and dumb, new library building at the State university, and smaller improvements at other stato institutions. The democratic party can account for every cent of debt it has created, and has no apologies to make for it. It has erected the buildings necessary for caring for the insane. lor educating thosts afllicted by the loss of aight,speoch and hearing and for rearing and educating the orphans of soldiers and Bailors. It proposes to maintain these institutions. It provided for meeting the expenses by a tax law that placed the burden on corporate property, but repub lean local officials, wherever thev have had power, have unnecessarily increased local taxes in order to cast odium on that law. We think the people of Indiana are intelligent enough to see through this bit of trickery, 'and honest enough to puuish the guilty "tricksters at the polls. Congressional Absenteeism. Representative Bailey of Texas is on the right track with bis resolution to "dock" congressmen for absence from their poets of duty, but it is very doubtful if he can secure its adoption. There is no other das of public officials in America whope members are so inclined to look upon public ofhee as a private cnap as congressmen. They talk about obeying the wishes of thir constituents, but the fid of the matter isthat mighty few of them know anything about the wishes of thir constituents after their first session, and almost none of them obey any wishes except their own. There are many reasons for this condition of affairs. In the first place the newly elected congressman usually celebrates his election by a journey to Washington, and there he remains continuously until his constituents retire him, only excepting his few brief visits to his old home for consultation with the local managers of his partv relative to his renomination and re-election. While he is idling away his time nt the capital, his district is growing, its sentiments are changing;, new conditions are arising and he alone remains stationary. Again, Washington is the narrowest, and in regard to current topics, the most unenlightened city on earth. Everybody statesmen, newspaper men and department officials jroea to Bleep on his arrival and never after fully awakens. The town has no trade to give it a knowledge of commercial affairs, its newspapers devote all their space to the doings of the government and the whole people drop into a satisfied self-con

sciousness that is highly pleasing to its partakers no doubt but not at all encouraging to the absorption or dissemination of information. In this somnolent atmosphere the congressman soon forgets almost that he has a constituency. He falls behind the times; he becomes negligent of his duties and eleeps through tho sessions or remains away ' from them altogether and devotes his attention solely to enjoying himself and drawing his sa'ary, the latter being the only thing he does with anything like regularity. It thus happens that the work of congress is done by a comparatively few men, while the majority are devoting their time to personal matters. It is these latter that Representative Bailey is after and it ia to be hoped he will get them. If he doesn't the people will rise up and get them some day and then there will be a lot of genteel loafers out of a job. Ixdiaxa republicans would Dot feel half so downcast by Harrison's defeat for arenomination as Indiana democrats. The latter are unanimously for him, while even the India rubber conscience of the Indianapolis Journal will Lot permit it to claim that for the former.

Indiana's delegates to the Minneapolis convention cannot understand why a fund for general entertainment and missionary purposes should be raised when they are expected to put out a great deal of money beside for their privilege of voting for Harrison. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. "Parties Interested," Weetfield, Ind.: There is no discrimination in the assessment of taxes between householders and non-householders in Indiana and never has been any. Taxes follow property, whether in the hands of men or women, householders or non-householders. There is no exemption of $1,000 or any other amount of property. N. G. Mastend, Stiiesville, Ind.: It has been repeatedly proved that many agricultural implements manufactured in this country are sold cheaper abroad than in the United States. The price lists for the export trade show this to be true, and leading manufacturers have admitted it. eT CETERA. The average life of a tradesman is about two-thiids that of a farmer. Tin-: theaters in Melbourne are almost all equipped with billiard ro ma. The natives of Damascus are said to call drunken men victims of "the English disease." Elections in France are always held on Sundays in order to suit the convenience of working i. eu and peasants. Nicholl Ci'.orcH, the composer of "Kathleen Mavourneen," is recovering from his recent severe idness at Baltimore. Gen. G. W. Jones, the first U. S. senator Iowa sent to Washington, is living in Dubuque at the advanced age of eightyeigth years. Said a revivalist the other day : "I like to hear a man say that he owes a great deal to a woman when he means his mother or his wife, but not when ho means his landlady or his washerwoman." So.ve idea of the ductility of gold may be had when it is stated that in making gold threads for embroidery it has bei'n found that six ounces of gold can be drawn into 200 miles of wire. The Rev. Lyman Atujott of Brooklyn and Mrs. Abbott are eo impressed with the good work cf Mrs. Ballingtou Booth that they proposo to become members of the auxiliary league to the Salvation army. Prof. Valch of Connecticut, who has the credit of having predicted the great March blizzard of 'S3, has kindly arranged for a terrific f torin early in May. lie eays it will strike tho Pacific coat May 5, and arrive in this neighborhood within one week thereafter. The pope has the largeet private fortune of any man in Rome and is careful not to fritter it away by bad management. He looks after it himself, and, keeping his safe in his own room and the key in his pocket, doesn't have much fear of any cashier skipping to Canada. Mr. Gladstone gives as the key to all his political changes this fact: "I was educated to regard liberty as an evil ; I have learned to regard it as a good." This, he believes, will explain his political evolution and make intelligible phases of his public life which to the casual observer eeem contradictory. Ah, Tri t friend! can you ask me to forget you Shame be mine, ehould I forget and lire! Calmly too, you atle tue to forxire you; Willingly, yes gladly I forgiTe. In ono Lour, of all hope and faith you robbed me; To ik from rue all hope of life, so dear. Be it ao, take hack the Ioto you iroiniael, B it do Dot star the sweet descending tear. Yea bett-r. better far ia weet remerahrarjo Of a love ao pure, so inmiDg kind. Thau to trust aaia to seeming; i lie dreaming Oi the joya my heart shall neer find. As well uk tb stars to cease tbsir abinlng, As to ask mo nTtr to regret ; And the tea forbear ita ceasuiess murmur, Aa to ask me erer to forget! 1 forair. od the falfe lore forsaking. I foiyive, aud live within the pat; AU too eil I did trust your fond caressing r.ut the, parting it must come at lait. If in tru:h you'd loved, I o'er could hste you, Of you now I think but with regret; You were p aying lore, aa at a pnHiine, I fordre, hut never can for j2t. CuluuibuJ, lad.. May 5. R. F. G. I Am S.. Tired" Is a common exclamation at this season. There is a certain bracing effect in cold air which is lost when the weather grow a warmer; and whn Nature is renewing her youth, her admirers feel dull, aiuirsish and tired. This condition is owing mainly to the impure condition of the blood, and its failure to supply healthy tissue to the various organs of the body. It is remarkable how susceptible the system is to the help to be derived from a good medicine at this season. Pos.aessin8T just thoee purifying, building-up qualities which the body craves. Hood's areaparil!a soon overcomes that tired feelinjr, restores tho appetite, purities the Mooif. and, in chort, i:r parts vigorous health. Its thousands of friends ns with one voice declare "It Makes the Weak Stron." Kvolntlon f Advrtiainnta. (.Street oV Smith'i i- o 1 New Great Editor (not many years hence) "I jiif-t sent in a long editorial on a most important suhject." Foreman "Yes. sir; it is already in the hands of the printers." Crest Kditor "Good! Re careful to nut it in the advertising columns, so it will be euro to be read. Bariln.ton lto..t. New fcrrl. A through Pullman Sleenine Car Chi cago to San Francisco is a feature of the Jiiirlington s new service, inis car leaves Chicago dailv on the fast train, at 1 t. m.. and runs via Denver, Colorado Springs, Leadville, Ciienwood Springs, bait I-Jtke City and Ogden, arriving in San Francisco at 11 :45 a. m.. less than four dara en route.

WOMAN AND THE PERIOD.

THE SECOND OF THE ''NINETEENTH CENTURY" PAPEHS. Rtight Tliat Follow I'pnn the Crowding of 31aara of Pe;ti Into Citlra Inrreaae of Crimr-l)runkrnni und Oilir Vicra at Coo(iitd Cnleri Ar Thfia tti L.i'slt. Ira at a It-nulta of the .N'ffrf Tenrirnctr of Sortnl DrTli uirut ur Are They Evidence of Duraif? 1 Alice U. Mylene. Lord Chestenield, at the age of seventy, was in the habit of Baying to hi old serv ant, Tyrawley: "Ty, you and I have I been dead for many years if wa ouiy knew j it. Let us walk down town and rehearse our funeral." When learned political economists, those unextinct pachyderm of modern learning, who are looked upon an the finest products of the nineteenth century civilization, eten out of their libraries and parlors and tell us with an air of divine impertinence that "social classes owe nothing to each other," and that the crying evils existing at the centers of our large cities are "inevitable," American society is re- j hearsing its funeral. Neglecting the "proper study of mankind," our educational institutions have afflicted us with redundant learning cn bnga. Ii civilization is a process of social development and not an abnormal departure from the conditions of nature, and if cities are the natural outgrowth and necessary factors of civilization, none of the evils which follow upon the crowding oi masses oi people in cities can be accepted as in- i evitable. A well-known writer on the social trob lems of the day says: "There are certain inevitable results which follow upon the crowding of masses of people in cities. These are, first, an excees of damand over supply in the necessaries of life and a consequently increased cost of living; secondly, an excess of supply over de mand in all departments ot labor, proles

fessional, clerical and mechanical, and for 1 mains before th world tho spectacle of many a constantly increasing difficulty of j almost infinite suffering and want. Beob'aining the means of living ; and third. I hind the epectale of suffering is the epecly, a development of crime, intemperance j tacle of inequality without corresponding

auu umt-t nuc!. The above enumeration does not accord with existing facts. It is not true that in cities there is an excess of detuand over supply in the necessaries of life. Fxcept when controlled by monopoly or interrupted by eome temporary natural obstruc tion, the supply of necessaries of life in cities is in excess of needs, and the larger the city the greater the excess. 1 f cases of individual deprivation of these necessaries of life in cities is in excess of needs, and the larger the city the greater the excess. If cases of individual deprivation of these necessaries arise it is not because there ia any lack of supply. Nor is the cost greater. Cities are the receiving and distributing reservoirs of the products of industry, and at these centers thecostof tiles') products to consumers is in many particulars less than at points more or less remote. Exception might also be taken to some of the other counts in the indictment, but, granting them all, they are none of them "inevitable." Are we to accept this pious folding of hands over the evils of our civilization on the plea of their assumed inevitability, with its concomitant recourse to charity-mongering palliatives, iu place of a thoroughgoing examination into causes and adoption of efficient remedies? lhe proximate, it not the ultimate. cause of these evils is the conge-tion of population at the city centers congestion as distinguished from vital incorporation. To whatever extent the population of a city is in excees of the functional activity . .. . - . i -ii jol a city ns an organism oi tae aociai uouy there is a congestive condition. Of the total population of the United States eleven and two-thirds millions are dwellers in cities. That is to tay, 22 J per cent., or more than one-fifth, of the entire population of the United States today is to be found in the cities. Of this population very nearly one-third is in the cities of New York. Philadelphia and Chicago, including ns part ot New York its tributary cities of firooklyn and Jersey City. Is such an accumulation of population in cities a legitimate result of necessary tendencies of social development, or is it an evidence of disease? Are not such cities as London, Paris end New York monstrosities, hydrocephalus formations? Is not their rapid increase, such as has taken place in recent years, a thing to be deprecated rather thau foolishly boasted of? Considered in connection with the no less rapid development in labor saving machinery, whereby tho work of ten men is performed by one, is there not something still more strikingly abnormal and inconsistent in this increase0 Playing with forces ho etrango and mighty that they have changed the face of the world, we have drifted into anew epoch of civilization, and continued to apply to its problems the wisdom of the ancients. Attempting to carry the commerce of the Atlantic in the galley-boats of the Komana would be idiocy less (stupendous. Three-quarters of a century ago, in the beeinninsr of the epoch steam, wine men said: "We have arrived at tho golden age, the giants have come to bear the burdens of men. The Rods of tiro and force will enrich this fair world; thero will bo enough for all. Toverty will vanish like a dream. The music of wheels, the laugh ter of steam and steel, will take the place (

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of the groans of men. There will be leisure for the heart and brain of our race." What a mockery that golden vision appears today ! Three-quarters of a century past. The gods have done their part. The wealth of the world has multiplied & hundred fold. Civilization has grown rich rich beyond prophecy. Tho gold of the C vsars and the treasures o: the old Fast of the nations of the "Oxus and Ind" are as a pallid dream bida the imperial wealth of our modem cities. That old opulence compared with ours was as their crude galley-boats to the queenly ehipi thit cleave our modern seiFrom this gdttering barbarism turn to the darker and deadlier side of the picture to our modern slums wh-re you 6ee miserable homes, wherein human beings crouch together like hungry dous cradle

wherein lav little children, whom God uieant to be' rosy and sweet and warm, but whom poverty has changed to puny skeletons which moan and shiver in uneasy sleep. Look again, and see the scanty fires, which hardly ejrve to warm an inch of space in barren rooms, wherein sit wrecks of men and women who seek in drink to hide the eting of cold and hunger. Young girls stretch thin and claw-like hantls above a jet of llickericg flame and eeek to draw a Ittle warmth from it to thaw their frozen blood. Mothers clasp starving babies to their shrunken breasts. Don't turn away until you see the graves whence comfort and a lone surct-ase from I huuger and pain beckon with alluring I hand?. -ee the rags that are the sport of j riuaid winds, and behind tha rr.gs are tender liefdi and benumbed and breaking . hearts. Want and misery und their sister, care, evermore the companion piece tc j poverty, with an ever-precent background of darkness whereon tae alluring splendor of Nineteenth century wealth and civilization are catt in ali their glory. Poes the spectator feol it in his heart ta Question Ciod whv such sharp contract should be, or why the earth is always ti stagger an 1 groan under its harden of unmerited woe? Does it occur to him to ask why little children are born to cry and etarve and die like the wolves? And why. the earth over, must it be that one man's wine is another man's poison, one man's opportunity another's loss? With tho work of civilization so far accomplished that there is enough accumulated wealth to make comfortable all the peoole of civilized countries there rei merit. Behind the spectacle of inequality j is the spectacle of fear in the lives of lnI norent millions. j A few centuries ago these grim facts would have troubled nobody. Those were years of force and brutality. Men wers indifferent to the sufferings of their fellows. The eense of human rights had not quickened. Today it is different. Gen. (irant tells us in his memoirs that, knocked about in his boyhood in many log school houses, he was told so often that a noun was the name of a thing that he began to believe it. A similar fatality lias overtaken modern Christianity. The brotherhood of man has been preached so long from the pulpits of the world that there are people even outside of the churches who begin to suspect its doctrine of truth. To the minds of millions ot men and women the equality and brotherhood of man are no longer rhetorical phrases. The presence of poverty and s iffering in the midst of plenty ia felt as a moral discord. By every sun that rises we read reports from some parts ol this republic of the strikes or lockouts o! thousands of workmen, significant of mighty personal guttering which coaclu eively proves that social classes do owe something to each other." Theee are the facts by the side of which all other facts of learning, of art, of discovery, or commerce, or law are as nothing. They are the facts which have met civilization in its pathway as theoldTheban sphinx met the traveler, who must soive us riuoie or aie. xa&j inane tue problem of our time. Let whoever will solve it. A Pa aim of Ufa. The pilar! m'a atep ia growing alow. His aged form 1 bent, Hit scanty locks are wh ta aa snow, And life ia nearly spent. With pensive step ha'i ever beea Content through life to plod Adown the sacred paths of troth Whioh patriarchs bare trod. His life Is Ilka an opea book. From which we all may read, And on his face a peaceful look Bespeaks the Christian's meed. And in his eyes, now growing dint, A tender light appears ; Ay! lovingly I pay to him The tribute of uir tears. For when the angel death shall coma, And snip life'a silvery chord, I know that he'll be taken home To ine?t a just reward. Then let ua follow in the stena Ilia righteous feet have trod, 0, let us lire as he has lived! subscrvieut to Liod. That we, like him, he a called to g) Shall reap rich reward ; Beloved, lamented, here below. As pilgrims of the Lord. Br Wiuaoir. Indianapolis. April 30. Postmaster Foeter of Lutea, Me., write! that after the Grip, Hood'a Sarsaparilla brought him out of a feeble, nervous condition, into complete strength and health. Hood's Pills have won high praise for their prompt and efficient yet easy action.