Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 May 1892 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1892-TWELVE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL

BY THE IKDIÄHJPOUS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS, PretidcnU Iltrd t tas Pwtofflcs at lodlsaspoUa M ccad cIm matter.) TEKMH IKK VKARi ttrtU ropT (InTsriablT in Advance.).- 1 OO V ark democrat to U-ar iu miud anl wlwt thrlr wn state ppr when they com to take aubcr!p tit r and naka up club. Agents making uj cluba aend for in Information Retired. Add TUE LNP1A2 APOUS SKNTINEL Indianapolis, Jnd. WEDNESDAY. MAY 25. 1892. TWELVE PAGES. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. Ikdianapolis Sentinel Comtart: Wo received th nncyclorwrcll Britannic" 11 right, and are highly pleased wlt It. It 1 much more than I expected, and ia certainly a very excellent work, l'lease accept our thanks. Tours respectfully, Lester L, Allisox. Malott Park, April 2. To Tin Epitor Sir: Having been In poeMlonoftherevIsctl Kncyclopardia liritannica about two weeks I am highly pleased with it. I marvel nt the extreme low price that you furnish It at. Heine a student I find it or great 'benefit to met in the solution or 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 a book, which I consider the best investment that I ever made for so email an amount of Biouay. William D. Parr. Piirox, the slaver of Abeille, gets a tentencc of one year in prison as a punishment. The only lesson to be derived from this is that Americans bavins- enemies j they want to "work off" would do well to entice them to Cannes. It ia stated that the fear ot anarchist bombs bad a depressing elect on the guests at the queen's last "drawing-room." Judging from all published reports of Ihepe short-sleeved and low-necked affairs a bomb explosion or cyclone, or anything else more enlivening than a funeral, would e most welcome. Libra rnAN Bancroft, who made such a fuss because he was made a consul without his consent, will probably wish he had kept quiet, now that Mr. Blaine has given lhe world the reason for the change. Mr. "Bancroft's position is bnt a prooi of the oft-made assertion that not every man knows when he is well oö". A prominent physician of Washington claims that the phonograph can be used ior the cure of deafness. The modulated counda which h is able to send into the ar through this instrument will gradually fcring the hammer and anvil bones of the -delicate organ'into their working condition. This i very important discovery, av-frue. - The late William B. Astob iri his will cut off hi9 brother Henry, who shocked his family by marrying a pretty and sensible country girl, with whom, the dispatches say, "he has lived happily ever eince." Henry will probably not grieve much, for money tainted with ialse pride, and ground from the poor, who exist but cannot be said to live, in the filthy Astor tenements, would scarcely bring him any additional happiness. Still it was .hardly fair in William Astor to treat Henry, whose only offense was an honest love, worse than he did Mrs. Drayton, whose crime was in the publicity given to Ler unwifely passion. Ir the Lord dealt with liars now as lie did in the days of Ananias one chair in the editorial rooms of the Fort Wayne Gazette would now be draped in mourning. That paper says: With the experience they are jnst now undergoing, they (the farmers) could eea no just reason why they ehould be compelled to submit to an increase of from 80 Xo 00 per cent, in the rato of their taxation, -while rich corporations of the state, the railroads, etc., are raised from 5 to 10 ?er cent. only. It is the inequality of the aw against which the people complain, and they insint that the railroads and corporations ßha!l bear their just proportion of the burdens a course which the democratic party of Indiana does not favor. We understand that the editor of the Gazette is a pious man and makes pnblio prayers. The republicans of the Massachusetts legislature are at work on a ballot law calculated to disfranchise the working class. It is proposed1 to require registrars to make up their lists from the list of those who paid taxes in the previous year. The man who has not paid his taies may get his name on the registry list if he discovers his disfranchisement early enough and can spare the time to go through a long and tedious program. But as. very few workingmen can spare the time to do this, the law practically works their disfranchisement. However, there is nothing to be surprised at in this course of the Bay state legislators. The republican party never has been in favor of a fair ballot. It haa opposed it in Indiana, In New York, ia Khode Island, in Connecticuteverywhere. Being essentially fraud itself, it sees no hope of success except in fraud. The Fort Wayne Gazette says: If anythinz in the Australian election law is an incentive to fraud and corruption, it is the provision which eompels the burning of the ballots immediately after they are counted. If the Gazette had ever given any thought or study to, or taken any interest in, the lubject of ballot reform it would know that cneof the most valuable and sensible provisions of the Indiana law in that which requires the burning of the ballots immediately after the caovasa Las been completed. Moit of the ballot reform lawi in the country have this provision, and all of them ought to have it. There can be no lonit purpose in preserving ths ballots, and we believe there can be none in demanding the repeal of the existing provision on the subject. Under the law every poesiLle safeguard against fraud is provided at .every stage of an election. Representatives of the leading political parties elected by their official committees have charge of all the machinery, including that provided for the printing and distritaUoacfUiji balloU aaitht coaUazof

the votes. It it provided that every ballot which is challengod or contested shall be preserved for six months to be used in case a recount is ordered or a contest is instituted. There can be no honest reason for preserving: the uncontested ballots, and the proposition that this shall bo done is so clearly in the intereet of ballotbox stuflinc and other sorts of election frauds that we shoaM think the proposition made by the Allen county republicans would double ihe democratic majority in that stronghold ci sound and honest politics next November.

The Great Tax Conspiracy. We publish this morning our first series of proofs of the infamous republican scheme to make the tax law odious by putting over $1,500,000 of unnecessary local taxes on the people and the results of their scheme. We present in tabulated form, by counties, the exact amount of taxes assessed for 1800 and 1S91, the increase or decrease, the amount of increase of state taxes and the exact increase of railroad taxes. The names of the counties having republican commissioners when the assessments were made are printed in italics, and a glance through the table will show that opposite nearly every italicized name there is a heavy increase of local taxes. It happened, curiously enough, that exactly one-half the counties had republican commissioners and one-half democratic. In the forty-sit republican counties there is a total increase of taxes of $1,805,030.84, of which $W,755.13, or lees than one-third, is state taxes, and $1,258,205.71 is local taxes. In the fortysix democratic counties the total increase is only $1,134.231.42, of which $f,23,792.G0 is state taxes and SÖ10.43S.S2 local taxes. Of the latter amount it will be noticed that JD7,15f.02 occurs in Marion county, and $213,201.90 in the other forty-five democratic counties. We shall show hereafter that most, if not all of this, was due to increaeed levies made by republican township trustees, town boards and school boards in democratic counties. The tax law haa nothing to do with the increase of local taxes, which are fixed entirely by local officials. The increase of state taxes is slightly greater in the democratic counties than in the republican counties because the assessment of the j former increased more. The increase of ; assessment in the forty-six democratic counties was from $118,422,117 in 1800 to $125.057,725 in 1891, or $2(X;,G3ö.G0S. In the republican counties it was from $139,232,270 to 030,108,313, or $190,946,043. If the increase of taxes were due to the law there would, of course, be a greater increase of taxes in the democratic counties than in the republican counties, but, in fact, it is $730,779.42 less. In the statement of state taxes the state school tax is not included because it is in fact a local tax. The state does not receive one cent of it, but it is apportioned to the counties for tho support of the chools, and the local school taxes should have been decreased to the same extent that the state echool tax was increased. Notification of this was given throughout the state by the superintendent of public instruction before the taxes were levied. The actual increase of taxes paid by railroads is $937,203.28, or from ? 1,093,936.73 for 1890 to $2,081,140.06 for 1S91. The increase of assessment for state pur- ! p ses is $1,230,547.73, but deducting from this the usual delinquency the amount ; a :tually paid would be $1,069,772.23. Of this sum, therefore, the railroads alone will pay all but $S2,568.93, and the increase on other corporations will much more than cover that amount. As to railroad and elate taxes the counties divide into four groups. In the nine democratic counties of Cass, Clark, Dubois, Franklin, Jackson, Miami, Tike, Scott and Wells, and the republican county of Steuben, there has been a decrease of total taxes paid. In the four democratic counties of Bartholomew, Hancock, Martin and Warrick, and the republican county of Montgomery, the increase of railroad taxes is greater than the total increase of taxes, and hence the people pay less. In the Beven democratio counties of Dearborn, Laporte, Marshall, Owen, Fosey, rulaski and Starke, and in the twentythree republican counties of Benton, Fayette. Fountain, Hendricks, Henry, Jasper, Jay, Jennings, Kosciusko, Lake, Lawrence, Morgan, Newton, Orange, Parke, Torter. Randolph, Rush, Tippecanoe, Union, Vermillion, Warren and Wayne, the increase on railroads is greater than the increase of state taxes, and in these there would have been a decrease of total taxes paid by individuals if the local taxes had not been increased. In the remaining counties the increase on railroads is less than the increaeed state tax, and as we have no convenient way of ascertaining the increase of taxes on other corporations we cannot say in how many of them there ehould have been a decrease of total taxes. The results as to railroads alone, however, are sufficient to demonstrate the excellent character of the law, and to show up the republican local officials who have needlessly taken over $1,500,000 from tho pockets of the people of Indiana in order to prejudice them against the new tax 'law. There is reason to believe that thii wai tugjested to them by the corporation people who desire the repeal of the law. Last year the appropriation for the purpose of extending the American corn trade in Europe was but $2,500, and that for extending the beef trade was $000,000. This ii entirely out of proportion to the relative merits of the two industries. In fact the appropriation for the latter might well be dropped altogether, for the beef business is practically controlled by a combine which iiwell able to look out

for its own interests and which takes good care that the producers of live stock pet none of the profits derived from the increased European demand. With our Indian corn, however, ths case is entirely different. Whatever increase comes in the demand directly bene tits tho raiser. . And the conditions attending the raising and handling corn prevent itt falling into the hands of any combine. Germany has literally "fallen in love" with our corn bread, and by proper pushing corn meal would soon be in general use throughout Europe. The beneüt to American farmers would be almost inestimable, and anything that benefits the farmers benefits the whole people. Congress is making some pretty extravagant appropriations, but it could hardly be extravagant in appropriating any sum, however great, for the purpose of introducing our Indian puddings and johnnycakes to the attention of a benighted and hungry world. A "Wholesome Lesson to Would -Bo Itnascs. The action of the democratic 6tate convention in Georgia is more significant, perhaps, than that taken by any other democratic convention held this year. Something more than a year ago a number of Georgia politicians undertook the contract oi nominating Da vir R. Hill for president. They knew perfectly well that in Georgia, as in every other state, North and b'outh, a great majority of the democracy was for Cleveland against the field. But they depended upon their money, their influence, and their skill in "practical politics" to prevent the sentiment oi tho party from finding expression. They went to work with a great flourish of trumpets and a tremendous beating of tom-toms to impress the country with the idea that Georgia and the entire South were ablaze with enthusiasm for David JR. Hill. They blustered, blowed, bullied, "claimed everything," scouted at the bare suggestion of any division of sentiment in Georgia or tho Fouth as regarded Mr. IInx's pre-eminent fitn6s and availability for the presidency, derided Mr. Cleveland oh a "mugwump" and a "etulled prophet," characterizing his friends as "featherheads," and raised Buch a terrible dust and clatter and euch a tremendous hullabaloo that the soul of CiiAKLEd Anderson Dana was filled with a great joy. and such eminent patriots and reformers as Johnnie McLean and Carter Harrison were in the seventh heaven of delight. And then came Senator Hill's ''triumphal journey" through the South, his "magnificent ovations," the "whirlwind of enthusiasm" and the "tumultuous applause" which greetel him at every step; and then, fizz! pop! bang! the balloon boom exploded, and the debris fell to the earth with a dull, sickening thud! Eor the last two months the engineers of this grotesque crusade upon the presidency have been making a de?perate effort to save the pieces. But the end came "Wednesday, in the state of Georgia, where but a few short weeks ago "everything was on fire for Hill ;"' in the city of Atlanta, where, in the Constitution office, the hindquarters of the Hill boom have been located (the headquarters being in the olfice of the Butler-Dana organ at New York) there in Georgia, at Atlanta, the democracy in convention assembled, elected a Cleveland delegation, adopted a Cleveland platform and never so much as mentioned David B. Hill! When the personnel of the anti-Cleveland managers in Georgia is considered the profound significance of this result becomes more apparent. The ring-leader of the anti-Cleveland movement was Evan P. Howell, proprietor of a great newspaper, the Atlanta Constitution, There was a time, not more than two years past, when Capt. Howell, although a protectionist, swore by Cleveland and at Hill, protesting that he would never, no, never, vote for David B. for president, even if ha should obtain the democratic nomination. But in due course Capt. Howell made a pilgrimage to New York, and while in the mighty metropolis he spread hia aristocratic legs under Charles Anderson Dana's mahogany. And then he hied him to Albany, and was taken by David Bennett Hill to the top of a high mountain and ehown all the kingdoms of the earth, which were to be his in certain contingencies. And when Capt. Howell returned to Atlanta, behold the Constitution forswore Cleveland and began to sound the cymbals and beat the tom-toms for the statesman of Elmira. A few weeks later -the redoubtablo Pat Walsh of the Augusta Chronicle made a trip to New York. He also broke bread with Charles Anderson Dana and found shelter under David B. Hill's hospitable roof. And the Chronicle forthwith lowered the Cleveland flag, which it had been floating for years, and threw the Hill banner , to the breeze ! Messrs. Howell and Walsh, with their Constitution and their Chronicle, supposed they had a "dead cinch" upon the state of Georgia, but to make assurance doubly eure they took U. S. Senator Colquitt and Speaker Crisp and Pat Calhoun into the deal, and then gayly snapped their ringers at fate. Bentor Colquitt, who is first a Colquitt man, then a prohibitionist, then a protectionist, and a democrat last of all, is a Sundayschool statesmen of the Garfield-Ilarri-eon-Colfax type, with which we are familiar in this part of the world. He is very "ready in prayer," comes out strong at clacs meetings and in the Sabbathechool, is a sworn enemy ot tho wine cup, and with one eye constantly on the throne of divine grace, has always kept the other oitfortho main chance. He had been doing an extensive political business on a very small capital in Georgia for many years when Mr. Cleveland became president. His political debts were numerous, and Colquitt insisted that the president should pay them ail oil. regardless of tho fact that they were very largely due to dead beats, superannuated "war-horses" and blowers and strikers of a not too reputable sort. Mr. Colquitt was persistent in his importunities, and Mr. Cleveland went rather farther than he should have done to serve him. But the more the president did for Colqcitt the more he demanded. His cry was ever that of the horse-leech, and there came a time when, Colquitt having unloaded a lot of very questionable citizem upon the president to the discredit of the administration, Mr. Cleveland was compelled, in self-defence, to give an occasional polite negative to the Georgia senator's requests. &r& jo it happentdjbii

this pious man entered with holy real into the Howell-Walsh crusade against Cleveland and Clevelandism only to discover that the democrats will have their way, and will not submit to be bossed, even by a U. S. senator. It was a wholesome lesson for Colquitt, and it should not be . lost upon any U. S. senator who finds himself tempted to assume the role of master, instead of servant, of his party. Speaker Crisp, as in duty bound, lent the Howell-Walsh-Col-quitt combine assistance in consideration of services rendered him last December by Senator Hill and his friends. Pat Calhoun, the ledin agreprtateseof nive monopoly in Georgia, took a hand, and thus completed the most powerful political syndicate ever organized in the South. Yet what did it amount to, after all? The people of Georgia are for tariff reform, and because they are for tariff reform they aro for G rover Cleveland. There were newepapers to speak for them notably the Atlanta Journal and the Savannah Nev$. And for the rest they simply bided their time, and when the day came for action they rose in their might, smote the anti-Cleveland Philistines bip and thigh, and brought many months of scheming and plotting and booming to naught. The would-be bosses in Georgia and everywhere else ought to understand by this time that the democratic masses propose to have their own way this year. They were betrayed in the speakership election at Washington last winter ; their wishes have at least once been sacrificed in a national convention to placate Tammany hall; they have been bossed by U. S. senators and other inflated officials year in and year out. They have made up their minds to take control of affairs themselves this year. The fate of the politicians who, in Georgia, in Indiana, in Illinois, in Connecticut and in a dozen other states, have attempted to lead the democratic party this year where It doesn't propose to go, should be a warning to all others who aro contemplating similar enterprises. Cleveland In NewYorlc. The most able, influential and thoroughly representative democratic journal in the state of New York is the Brooklyn Eagle. The Eagle is not only the recognized organ of the democracy of Kinirs county, but it is understood to be the mouthpiece of Hugh McLaughlin, the democratic leader in Brooklyn. These facts lend great significance to the following extracts from a leading editorial in a recent issue of the Eagle'. Of course th delegation from New York state to the democratic national convention will obey the instructions which they received. They were instructed to vote as a unit. That order will bind them throughout the sessions of the gathering at Chicago. They were also instructed to present the name of David 1. Hill as a candidate for the nomination for president of the United States. They will formally do that. The Eagle presumes that aster" such presentation ot Senator Hill's name, the delegation will vote for him so long as there is an apparent chance of his nomination. If the first ballot of the convention ehould show that such a chance was neither apparent nor real, the delegation could feel absolved from to much of the instructions. The situation as it will unfold itself at tho convention may soon relieve the delegation from any obligation to continue to vote for Senator Hill, while the obligation to vote as a unit will remain unimpaired. The men from Kings will let the men unconditionally for II ii.i. have no chance to formuate any true charge of want of lealty against the representatives oi this community. No false charge of that kind will be permitted to escape resentment and punishment The compact will be lived up and lived out. It will bind, however, not a moment beyond its capacity to accomplish what it was made to eliect. The incapability of Hill's nomination will early appear, unless a substantially miraculous revolution of manifest tendencies within democracy should occur. That incapability formally shown, the Kings county democracy will be released from Hill. So will the delegation from New York state. That a majority of such delegation wiil be glad to be released could easily be demonstrated. The Kings county delegation have an uncompleted Hill pledgn on their Lands. They will be faithful to it and free after it. They have a Cleveland hope in their hearts. They know that Cleveland ia the preference and insistence of those at homo who can decide elections, local or state or national here, and who will be minded to decide them according to the fidelity or to the infidelity of the Chicago gathering to the desires of the democratic people and to the principles of the democratic faith. ' It will not be very surprising to find the eeventy-two delegates from New York in the Cleveland column at the Chicago convention after all. The democratic masses of New York are overwhelmingly for Cleveland; the democratic press of the state is almost a unit for him; and we are prepared to see the democratic politicians falling in line for him at Chicago after a formal obedience to the instructions of the midwinter convention are made. Mr. Watterton'g Wild ProphenylnR. Mr. Watterson is la New York and haa solemnly assured the people of that state, through the Herald, that Mr. Cleveland if nominated cannot carry it. Mr. Watterson does not explain what exclusive sources of information he has on the subject. He certaiuly knows no more about the political conditions in New York than any other democrat of like intelligence and equal opportunities. The leading democratic newspapers of New York, such as the Brooklyn Eagtc, the Albany Ar gut and the Buffalo Courier, pay that Mr. Cleveland can carry New York, and that he is stronger in that state than any other democrat talked of for the presidency. Mr. Frederic It. Coudfrt, president of the Manhattan club, ex-secretary Fa men hp, ex-Mayor Grace and others among the most eminent democrats In New York say the same thin. They certainly know as much about the situation as does Mr. Watterson, who in the past has shown himself one of the poorest political prophets io the country.' In 1884 Mr. Watterson opposed Mr. Cleveland's nomination on the ground that he could not carry New York. Mr. Cleveland was nominated, and carried New York. In 18SS, a few days before the election, Mr. Watterson went to New York and, after looking over the ground, announced to the reader! of the Courier Journal that the state was safe for CleveijtKy. bxlargamajority He lost it by

about 14,000, Mr. Watterson has always been unfortunate in his political prognostications. Notwithstanding: tho action of the midwinter snap convention there is every reason to believe that Mr. Cleveland is stronger in New York than any other man the democrats could nominate. The handful of machine politicians who are opposing him do not represent any great number of votes. Tho democratic opposition to Cleveland is not so formidable as the republican opposition to Harrison. The performances of Hill, Flower and the democratic legislature have rendered it exceedingly doubtful whether any democrat, except Cleveland, can carry the state. As against Harrison he can poll the independent vote, including the great body of the Germans, the business men of all classes, and thousands of republicans who are inclined toward tariff reform. No other democrat who is talked of can command this great vote, and it will more than compensate for any possible democratic defection from Mr. Cleveland. The conditions which force us to the above conclusions are so clearly defined that we are unable to understand how Mr. Watterson can ignore them or mistake their significance. To us it is plain that Mr. Cleveland is the man of all others to carry New York, notwithstanding the fact that its delegation is instructed to present the name of Senator Hill. As a matter of fact there are many members of that delgation possibly a majority whose real preferences are known to be for Mr. Cleveland, and it is very probable that after fulfilling honorably the instructions of the New York convention they will wheel the delegation into line for the great tariff reformer. Mr. Cleveland is going to be nominated and he is going to be elected by a large majority of electoral votes, New York's among them. As for Mr. Watterson he bee ras determined to throw away his well earned reputation for political sagacity by his attempt to in duce the democratic party to put itself in a false position in this campaign. We are sorry to see Mr. Watterson make such a fatal blunder, for we have always held him in the highest regard. Even now, while deploring his poor judgment, we do not question his entire sincerity. Mr. Watterson really thinks he knows that Mr. Cleveland cannot be elected and that some favorite son dark horse can be. He is the victim of a delusion, but he is an honest victim. An Attempt to Escape. Of all the pitiful sneaks that the Journal has ever attempted the worst is the one it undertakes in regard to the increase of local taxes in republican counties. The democratic platform charges an increase of local taxes of over $1,250,000 in fortysix counties controlled by republicans (the Journal says forty-seven), and in reply the Journal says ''the democrat have a majority of the boards in fifty-four counties and the republicans in thirtyeight." What of it? The question is what did they have when the assessment was made, not what do they have now that the tidal wave of 1890 has had its work completed by tho seating of the officers elected. Kepublican boards of commissioners made the levies in fortysix counties, and are responsible for the local taxes paid by the people. They cannot escape that responsibility by any such transparent trickery as the Journal attempts. It might aa well face the truth first as last. The Journal does the democrats a service by calling attention to the circular issued by Chairman Jewstt just before the levies were made. This circular was not only sent to democratic officials, but was published in republican newspapers throughout the state, and thereby brought to the attention of republican officials who might profitably have heeded its advice, for it advised exactly what was the right thing to do. Note the words: It is at all times the policy and endeavor of the democratic party to reduce taxation. Great care ought, therefore, to be observed in levying county and other local taxes to eee that the former rates of taxation are reduced enough to avoid tho payment of an increased amount of taxes timply on account of tla increztcd astttsmcnt. That is good democracy, good citizenship and good eenee. No one wanted local taxes increased simply on account of the increased assessment, and yet some officials might have increased them without realizing what they were doing if their attention had not been called to the matter. The democrats almost universally heeded the warning, and reduced their levies so that the local taxes would be no greater than last year. On the other hand the republican officials increased their local taxes without any excuse or justification. They were not only warned by the publication of Mr. JkwetVs circular, but also in nearly every county prominent citizens and tax-payers called on them and protested against any increase of local taxes. What was the result? In the forty-six counties controlled by them, in addition to the 606,000 of state taxes called for by the tax law, and concerning which the republican press has made such an ontcry, they deliberately levied over SI ,250,000 more of local taxes than they did last year, making a grand total of increased taxation more than three times as large as there was any need for, not to mention the increases made by republican officials in democratic counties. This infamous outrage is absolutely without a parallel in the history of any civilized country, and it is as insulting aa it is unjustifiable. To take over S 1,500, -000 unnecessarily from the pockets of the people is bad enough, but to ask them to believe that the new tax law did it is a reflection on their intelligence that deserves to be resented. We do not believe that people of Indiana are fools. We think they are able to understand the difference between a atate tax and a local tax. And "we think that when the votes are counted in November these republican tricksters will find that they have been fooling with two-edged iword. Just as long as the destruction of the forests at the head waters of our western and southwestern rivers continues will the rapid melting of the snow in those regions and the enlargement of the tributaries cause the rivers to become vast seas, into which are drawn houses, persons, crops and cattle. The frightful loss of life which has become an anntial occurrence along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers should cause the state and national governments to consider the importance ofjjreaerTiaapuxfjax&aU.

SUNDAY THOUGHTS! OH MORALSicPMANNERS

XT A CLERGYMAN. Churches of all creeds and of no creed are agreed in believing and teaching the supreme truth of individual responsibility. 'Tis impoesiolo to overemphasize it. It is the article of a standingor a falling church. For a church is not a ferry-boat carrying from the shore of time to the f-hore of eternity passengers who have paid their fare and who are therefore entitled to be ferried across seated and at ease. It is a college racing shell. Every one of the eight is important, and all are of equal importance. Any one may lose the race by an indifferent or laggard stroke, and there is not one which cannot do much to win it. Too many Christians have the ferry-boat conception instead of the racing shell conception of the church. A few are left to do all the work, and the many regard themselves as mere passengers. All should pull and must In order to succeed. After the battle of Bunker Hill, a courier rode breathlessly up toGen. Washington at Cambridge and announced the news. The great Virginian asked one question onlv one. He did not inquire who commanded, nor how many were killed, nor even whether the British were finally repulsed. He simply eaid : "Did the militia stand fire?" The messenger told him they did. "Then," was his comment, "we shall win our independence." He recognized the fact that the success of the struggle depended not so much upon the generals as upon the courage and determination of tho rank and file. Juet so in the church. If the members are consecned and diligent their cause will march on conquering and to conquer. If they are Biugvrardly and craven no splendor of generalship can achieve victory. Whether in church or state battles are won not by staff officers, but by union of purpose and will and effort. Each must help all and all must help each. St. Paul teaches this under the fcimilo of theibody (I Cor., xii, 14-31): "For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot phall say, Because I am not the hand I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say. Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body ? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 15ut now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee; nor again, the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more, these members of the body which seem to De more feeble are necessary." Many Christians are sitting "at ease in Zion." Some of them mistake a pew for a sleeping car. "Oh," exclaimed the late Mr. Beecher, "that a man could take his pew to bed with him." Well, as that can't be done, some people carry their beds to their pews. We have too much preaching, we are preached to death and the devil. We absorb preaching as a sponge does water. We need to be squeezed and made to give out. We ehould do as tne primitive believers did in Trajan's day. They met in secret under the pavements of Rome to pray and exhort one another, and then went up and. out to attack: falte altars and wicked laws. Would it not bo well nowadays to preach in the morning and then adjourn to prrctice in the afternoon. Christians might wisely go into the streets on errands of evangelization. Methodism was cradled in the streets was born out in the open air hence its robust vitality. Wesley and Whitfield were street preachers. John B. Gough was redeemed by the touch of a Christian band upon the shoulder as he staggered along the sidewalk after a debauch, and so was Jerry MacAuley. ' The general assembly of the presbyterian church met at Portland, Ore., last Thursday. Now, then ! There is more explosive power in the dynamite of character than in all the powder ot privilege and position. Clergymen outside of the pulpit and of ecclesiastical bodies are the most genial and charitable of men. It is truly eaid that the advantages arising from the social and common life of students at college often outweigh those of the instruction and discipline of the class room. Kven the student who is careless and shirks duty as often as hecan, is perceptibly benefitted by the atmosphere he breathes and the molding influences of the little commonwealth of which he forms a part. President Patton of Princeton college once parodied the well known couplet of Tennyson as follows: " 'Tis bettor to bars coma and loafsd Thao neter to brt come at all." This, however, is not a plea for shirking and shirkers, but a word of consolation to parents whose sons may have disappointed their hopes and purposes. It it a recognized principle, remarks an acute critic, that a good cause is injured rather than benefited by bad arguments.

Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder t CONTAINS NEITHER AMMONIA, ALUM OR ANY OTHER INJURIOUS DRUG. The Wisconsin Dairy and Food Commissioner says In his Annual report for 1890, on page 82: "The Katiohal DisraxsATOST says of Carbonate of Ammonia! 'It Is Irritant, and ir long continued, even In doses which the stomach will tolerate. It lm. pairs nutrition; in doses of five toten grains It Increases the fullness and force of the palse and causes a sense of lightness in the head. 21 i on oj our tnott pot4T fyX mtdicints and certainly thendd not b used in th preparation effoodt? " On page 85 tho report further states: "The result of experiments would indicate that the residues In bread made from Alum Baking Powder, have a decided eject even ot a tlrong and healthy itorrucJU The weight of testimony ia docidedly against the use of ALC. Tho following powders contain either ammonia or alum, or both: Koyal, Calumet, Forest City, Pearl, Unrirallea Echo, Crown, Chicago Yeast, Bon Bon, Star, New Era, Snow Bal ?Mi Graii CastiL

For this reason we were sorry to see recently in a contemporarv a plea for th traditional view of the Pentateuch based on the existence of the Samaritan codes, which, it was claimed, dates back at least to the time of the Judges. But there is a consensus among scholars now that the S&maritan codes are not earlier than tho time of Ezra. The point was fiercely debated once, but since the beginning of this century there has been but one opinion on the subject. It is therefore very foolish to argue against the negative criticism of our day on any euch ground as this. "Come off!" eaid a war! politician angrily to an opponent; "your candidate doesn't know the principle of political economv." "Doeen't he?" was the hot retort; "well, all the same, he paid 50 cents for a vote that your man bad been ollering a dollar for a week."

It is encouraging to know that invalidism is no longer a la mode. Young ladies ere coming to prefer roses in their cheeka (natural) and grace of motion, and the physical development which comes from exercise out of doors, to the interesting?) decrepitude and hacking cough of Camilla in Dumas' famous storv. There are nowadays many robust Yolandes who take pleasure in climbing the highland paths. As for the young men, Lockhardt's picture of Kit North might do for the portrait of thousands of them grand physique, broad back, complexion of the Goth, health and vitality of the old Teutons who rushed into battle with laughter. Here are pome ancient bri Jal fancies: Married in white, you have chosen right. Married in gray, you will go far away. Married in black, you will wish yourself back. Married in green, ashamed to be seen. Married in blue, he will always be true. Married in pearl, you will live in a whirl. We eupect that pome of these prophecies are based rather upon rhyme thaooa reason. " r Congressman Price of Wisconsin recently eaid : "I am neither crank nor m saint. I simply want the man who eella liquor put in state prison for it, and the fellow who drinks it phut up in an insane asvlum; but I would cot for Cie world have you think I am at all radical on thif question." The four chief ingredients cf health aro air, water, sunlight and exercise. And these are within everybody's reach and Ufe. Carlo Itrtyn. Love embodies all that is potent and all that is latent in the gospel. 'Tis secure in temptation, temperate in prosperity, strong in 6u(Tering and cheerful in good works, St. Augutine. Thoughts, to flow easily, must overflow from a full mind. William Matthews. The fragmentary flashes of conversa tion, pasting words, almost the idle worda of earnest men, how valuable they are. 1'axton Hood. Grief is overcome by patience. Inscription i the Tou er of Lotion. Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. Anon. The greatest needs of the times is a positive Christianity that believes with tho heart and speaks out of that belief, and works up to the full measure of the feeling and the utterance. -Nu Orleanu Christian Advocate. The dominion of a simple habit will fearfully estranee us from God's presence. A single consenting act of disobedience is enough to let fall a cloud between Him and us, and to leave our hearts cheerless) and dark. Cardinil Manning. Every man stamps his value upon him' self. The price we challenge for ourselvei is given. Schwer. Do not live without some high intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be and do something worthy with all your might. 1'. Brooks. Piety is too often plating outward, upon us, rather than in us. It stops on the surface of our being, without penetrating into our domestic and business life. It is not melted into our existence, and so has little hold on humanity Maitod. Oh, what would become of a mother, trembling for the life of her child, if it were rot lor prayer. Mme. de Start. Pluck ia the true way to spell luck, foi that compe ls this. Ca riot Martyn. Surely as waters meet and rest in low valieys, so do God's graces in lowly hearts. '-Trapp. A darkened conscience is a blind leader. GotÜutld. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Louis II. Ccbrteb, Thorntown: Tho 'manife?t" freight syetem was adopted by the Bie Four on the 1st of May. The term is used to designate perishab'e consignments w hich are put into trains that have right of way over all other freight trains of any class and make time about equal to that of passenger trains. Tho manifest freight leaving Cleves was late and over zeal to make cp lost time was one of the causes of the accident. After the Grip Hood's Sarsaparilla wil restore your strength and health, and expel every trace of poison from the blood. The announcement that the president had approved the bill to admit Inman line vessels to free entry was received in the house with groat applause. Mrs. Charles Smith of Jimes, 0., writei: I have used every remedy for sick headache I could hear of for the past fifteen years, but Carter's Little Liver Pills did me mora good than all the rest.