Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1892 — Page 4

TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY JIOUXING, JUNE 29. 1892 TWELVE PAGES.

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

ITnttreJ at the Poatoftc at Indiaaapolia" M second ciaa matter. TKK3I5 PER YKAIU flrvl copy (Invariably Id Advance.).-. ..I OO W ak democrats to War in mind and select th-ir tu Ma t paper when they coma to Ukd-iubicrlp-ticnt and make op club. .Agents making op ciaba send for inr information tcsiied. Addess THE LND1AI APOU3 SENTINEL Indianapolis, ind. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 29, 1S92. TWELVE PAGES. THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA. Indianapolis Sentinel Compabt: We received the "Encyclopaedia liritannica" all right, and are highly pleased with it. It is much more than I expected, and is certainly a very excellent work. rieae accept our thanks. Yours respectfully, Lesteb L Allisoh. 3Ialott Tark, April 2. To the Editor .tr: Having been in possession of therevised Encyclopaedia Britannic about two weeks I am highly pleased with it. I marvel at the extrem low price that yon furnish It at. Being a atadent 1 find it of great benefit to me in the solution of a great many perplexing questions. I bellete that all young readers of "The Sentinel should lutve it, and many thanks to you for having been the medium through which 1 have been made able to procure so useful a book, which I consider the best investment that I ever made for so small an amount of money. William D. Pabe. The Victory of the People. The triumphant nomination of G rover Cleveland as the democratic candidate for the presidency ia a marked honor both to the man and to the party. It ia one of those occurrences that is because it should be one whose existence reflects its greatest luster on those who cause it. G hover Cleveland stands today without a rival in the confidence and esteem of the people of the United States. No one questions hin integrity. From iriends and foes alike comes the testimony that he is an honest man, a man who has the courage of his convictions, a man who has been tried and not found wanting. The overwhelming demand for his nomination is conclusive evidence that the masses of the democratic party appreciate and desire honesty in public life. Their steadfast adherence to him through all the bitter effort to thrust him aside is the best testimonial that could be given to the honesty of purpose of the democratic masses. They have ehown their faith by their works. This manifestation of a sincere and earnest desire for good government farriishes a strong ground of appeal to the people for confidence in the party. No one would be to foolish as to claim absolute parity for a political party. There are bad men in all parties, and in the movements of political organizations it is inevitable that the worst elements should at some times prevail. But here is a case in which the fight has been made on a leader on other grounds, and the character of that leader of itself has stood like a rock against every assault that has been made upon him. To every attack that has been made the answer has come clear and quick, "lie is honest. We can trust him. We want him." And this as to his availability as well as to other points urged, and it is a legitimate and sensible answer to that objection. People are right in believing that whom they can trust others will trust. The man who has gained the confidence of every other state in the onion may reasonably be be'ieved to have the confidence of e w York. It is a manifestation of the correct judgment of the masses a judgment founded on subtle reason, that comes unconsciously as an inspiration to the majority of the people. As an indication of the sentiment of the party as to the principles to be contended for the nomination is not less significant than it is as to the character desired for a leader. The name of Groveb Cleveland Is of itself a platform pledging two things, iconomy in government and the reduction of tariff taxes. In the course of his wise and prudent administration he iemonstrated that the national government was collecting taxes to the amount of $60,000,000 per annum in excess of its needs. It was no matter of theory. The money was actually saved and placed ia the treasury. On this state of facts he appealed to congress for a reduction of the tariff taxes, and a republican senate refused the relief. An appeal was made to the people, and by fraud and bribery unparalleled in the history of the country narrow majorities were secured against Lim In two etatea, which decided the remit. When Geoveb Cleveland laid down the reins of government there ensued a carnival of extravagance such aa was never seen before. The principle of "God help the surplus" was adopted as the rale of official life in every department. Not only the ordinary revenues of the government, but also the savina of the Cleveland administration, melted away like snow under the exultant public debauchery of the republican snowmen. There was no hand lifted to stay them, ' no voice raised in proteat, among republican leaders. A besotted congress increased the tariff taxes to a point nevtr dreamed of by . the most ardent protectionists among the earlier statesmen of the republic. The people looked on the record of two years and spoke their condemnation in unmistakable term. They wanted no more of profligacy, no more of increased taxation. Confronted by this rebuke the republican administration undertook to revolutionize oar elective system and take a control of elections that would insure their party's safety without regard to the withes of the people. The attempt was exposed and the protest against it was so loud and so universal that it was abandoned. Coming now into control of one branch cf the legislative department the democratic party was expected to show its condemnation of the republican record by action. Instead of doing so boldly it has proceeded timidly with feeble and vacillating steps. InsUad of making a record that would condemn rejpuhlicanüia it hu made a record that Is

today the subject of ridicule and jeering for republicans. The people have seen and understood this was the work of tbe enemies of Uroveh Cleveland, and the final testimony to this fact has boen added by the declaration of the leader of the house that the tariff reform demanded by the party would "not be of the Cleveland type," The party has 6at in judgment. The decision is express. It wants economy and reform of the Cleveland type. Any man who henceforth obstructs it is the enemy of the party. Let us have no more feeble imitations of republicanism. Let us move forward. The democratic party is the party of economy and the reduction of tarilf taxation.

The Defeat of Gray. As might reasonably be expected the Indianapolis Journal, Cincinnati Enquirer and other republican papers endeavor to create a belief that the defeat of Isaac P. Gray for the vice-presidential nomination was dua to treachery of Cleveland men, and especially to a failure of Mr. Whitney to do what he could to secure his nomination. That sort of talk is the customary thing for an opposition, but in this case the facts and figures are all of record, and no one need be deceived concerning them unless desirous of being deceived. Mr. Whitney never professed to be able to deliver the entire Cleveland voto to any one, and never was foolish enough to promise such a thing, but he did intimate clearly that he thought Gray should be nominated for the second place, and unquestionably worked to secure that result. The particulars of Indiana's support of Cleveland were open to the world, and we give the following statements concerning the matter from the telegraphic accounts that appeared in the Journal of Tuesday, June 21 : NO PLEDGE TO HOOSIERS. He (Mr. Whitney) was asked whether any pledge had been made by Cleveland's friends to the Gray men, and he said that noDe had been made, although the logic of tbe situation would naturally bring the vice-presidency to Indiana. In the same issue the Journal quotes S. E. Morns, of the Cleveland forces of Indiana, as follows: There was no bargain made with the anti-Cleveland faction by which they will support Cleveland in consideration of the nomination of Governor Ghay for vice-president. To say now that there was such a bargain, in the face of these open declarations made at the time, is absurd. The actual situation in regard to the matter was stated in The Sentinel's speciale of Wednesday morning in thwse wordä: The Indiana delegation will present the name of Governor Gray for that place (the vice-presidency) and he will receive the united support of the delegation. While he will be opposed by a number of states which have favorite eons it is generally believed that Governor Gray will go on the tail end of the ticket. Michigan will present Judge Mouse, Wisconsin Congressman Mitchell, California Congressman (iEARY, Illinois ex-Aet-istant l'ostiuaste rGeneral Stevexsox; the silver ttateswill vote for Boies, and perhaps a portion of the Missouri delegation will also vote ior Boies. Morrison will also be voted for. This situation was a natural one, and one that could not be controlled by any one. From the first Mr. Grw's Indiana supporters bad not only identified themselves with the anti-Cleveland element by declaring that Gray would be nominated for president and would receive the support of Indiana, but also had encouraged other aspirants by declaring that under no circumstance would he be a candidate for the second place. The Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin democrats have high hopes of carrying their respective states and, of course, desired the sssistance of a vice-presidentia- candidate. Tbey had advanced too far in their campaigns, and the nomination of Cleveland was too well assured, when Indiana's Gray men decided to fall in line, to cause them to drop their ' favorite sons." This situation put the balance of power in the hands of the anti-Cleveland forces, ami they used it to slaughter the man whom they imagined to have led in the defection to Cleveland. If they had not been led to believe Indiana soU-Cleveland by the protestations of Gray's supporters they might not have done so. Their vote was as follows:

o 1 c fc 9 .2 1 " 2 J O STATES. -3 m s ; s fa B. a to O if , It, Colorado........ s 8 Idaho 6 6 Iowa 26 ........ 2f Kentucky.. IS S 12 14 Louw.ana . 3 13 i6 Mary and . . 6 lu 12 4 Montana. ........... 6 j 6 New Vork 72 I 72 Nona Carolina 3V; lsi - 22 Ohio 14 Si j 4 4.' South Carolina 2 1 H Virginia 12 12 ! 24 Tota'i..... , 5."'v 2ff- 40 23.

That Mr. Whitney exerted himself for Gray is conclusively demonstrated, not only by the fact that Gray' received the entire vote of Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey (except one vote), Pennsylvania, Vermont and Rhode Island, where Mr. Wkitnky is most influential, but also by Mr. Gray's total vote. He received on tbe original ballot 303 votes, which was only nine short of Stkvenson'b total, but of Stevenson's 402 votes 214 were cast by the anti-Cleveland states named above. If there had been any division of the antiCleveland strength Mr. Gray would certainly have received a majority on the first ballot and would have been nominated. He received a large majority of the Cleveland strength in the convention 205 more totes than hia strongest competitor, Mr. Stevenson, but the united anti-Cleveland strength defeated him. The Vice-Presidency. Indiana democrats would have been better pleased had their honored leader, Isaac P. Gray, been the choice of the democratic convention for the second place on the national ticket. It ia useless to attempt to disguise the keen disappointment felt by Indiana democrats, though it is a pleasure to know that the least disappointed democrat in Indiana is the one most airectly and personally interested. As Governor Gray himself says, he did not desire the nomination and has no regrets whatever. His voice will, as in every democratio campaign, be heard in support of the ticket, and when November rolls around the size of the democratic majority will attest the efficacy of his labors. And when four years have passed, as they will pass with surprising swiftness, Indiana will, with uniudfroat, advance on tho con

vention city demanding in a wavthai cannot be resisted the first place on the ticket for her favorite son. To the nomination made that of Gen. Adlai E. STEVEXSON'of Illinois there can be raised not the slightest objection in any quarter. A brave soldier, an ardent patriot, an able lawyer, an efficient con gressman, a skilled executive officer, a life-lcnff. unswerving democrat, bis name will bring strength to the ticket and enthusiasm to the hearts of the democratic masses. Stevenson's name on the ticket is almost an absolute assurance that the elector, vote of Illinois will be found in the democratic column when the votes shall have been counted. For years during and eince the war he has possessed the sincere devotion of the Illinois democracy and the respect and admiration of all its opponents. Possibly no man in the Prairie state has a wider personal acquaintance than he among the people of all parties, and it is an acquaintance of bo friendly a nature as to insure to the ticket bearing his name a large accession of votes. But Gen. Stevenson is almost as well and favorably known outside the state as in it, and taking into consideration his magnificent private and public record he will prove, in every way, a fit running mate for G rover Cleveland.

A Satisfactory Substitut. Fully as reassuring as the nomination ot Cleveland was the action of the democratic convention on the tarilf question. The plank submitted by the majority was a timid irresolute proposition to attack protection without hurting anything that is protected. It began with an apology to workingmen and an explanation that ther6 was no intention to interfere with their wages, as follows : We reiterate the oft-repeated doctrines of the democratic party that the necessity of tbe government is the only justification for taxation and whenever a tax is unnecessary it is unjustifiable; that, when custom house taxation is levied upon articles of any kind produced in this country, the ditlervnce between the cost of labor here an. I abroad, wheu such a difference exi.i fully measures any possible benefits to labor, and the enormous additional impositions of the exibting tnri tt fall with crushing force upon our farmers and workingmen and, for the mere advantage of the lew whom it enriches, exact from labor a grossly unjust share of the expenses of the government; and we demand such revision of the tariff laws as wiil remove their iniquitous inequalities, lighten their oppression and put them on a constitutional and equituble basis. This was an error. It is an assumption of a claim very frequently made by protectionists in the past that the tariff inincreoaes wages, and it is an assumption that has very foolishly been made in'previous democratic platforms. No one of any intelligence who has examined the wat'e questiou believes any such thing, and, le&qtof all, do wage-workers believe it It is a common mistake of politicians to suppose that wage-workers do not understand their own iuterests, that they must be coddled by fa se pretenses, and that they have been deceive 1 by the talk about competition with the "pauper labor" of foreign countries. Nothing could be more preposterous. There is no class of people in the country so well informed on the tarilf question as organized labor. There is no clans that so clearly understands that, as a rule, employers in this country will get their work done as cheaply as possible, just as in any other country. There is no class so educated by experience to the ia-:t that, aside from natural conditions anil supply and demand ot labor, the most potent cause of good wage is organization and resistance to injustice. There is no class more bitterly acquainted with the fact that a policy that cuts off markets, causes "over-production" and makes long stoppages of employment is the worst enemy the workingman can have. Workingmen do not need education on tho tarilf question. They have it. They were not scared bv the English system bugaboo of 1888. They walked up to the polls and voted the democratic ticket. In that election the democratic party suffered no loss from a defection of workingmen. As a rule we gained in cities, and especially did we gain in manufacturing districts. And what was true then is equally true now. The interim of republican power, and the operations of the McKinley legislation "for the protection of American labor" have not tended to weaken their faith. The weakening has all been on the other side. We have reached a stage when even the Bulletin of the American protective tarilf league says: Wages will be reduced and advanced from time to time in obedience to laws beyond the power of man to control, no matter what kind of tariff we may have, i'ust as the price of wheat or beef will bo ligh one year and low the next. We have reached a 6tage when McKinley himself declares that "no one ever claimed that the tariff increases wages." We have reached a stage when the protective prtes of Pennsylvania, confronted by sweeping reduction of wages in the highly protected iron and steel industry, is explaining that wages do not depend on the tariff, and when the working men affected are preparing for appeal, not to a tariff, but to organized effort. At such a time as this it would be unpardonable folly to cumber a tariff reform platform with any rot about the difference of wages between this country and foreign countries. The remainder of tbe rejected plank Is not so objectionable ins what it says as in what it might be construed to imply. It is as follows: But in making redaction in taxes it is not proposed to injure any domestic industries, but rather to promote their healthy growth. From the foundation of this government taxes collected at the customs house have been the chief source of federal revenue. Such they roust continue tobe. Moreover, many industries have come to rely upon legislation for successful continuance, so that any change of law must be at every step regardful of the labor and capital thus involved. The process of reform roust be subjected to the execution of this plain dictate of justice. It is not probable that any congress of moderately honest men would deliberately ruin, or even injure, any legitimate industry, but these words would certainly be taken to made the protected industries largely the judges of what will be necessary ior tbem. That has been the policy of tbe republican pnrty, and under it there has been a steady increase of demand a continual asking for more. It is time the infant industries" were weaned. Their powers of auction have increased to euch

an extent that they are drawing away the life blood of the nourishing mother. The principal "dictate of justice" that should be kept in mind in tariff reform is justice to an oppressed and wronged people. What Is the Remedy? The Maine law relative to boiler inspection needs bracing up, thinks a contemporary, and the reason given is that almost anybody is called an engineer. An instance is recalled where tho boiler ot a large factory was left to the care of anyone of six persons and no one of the six had an engineer's certificate. We doubt whether the laws of Maine or any other state need so much bracing up on the boiler inspection matteras those of Indiana. New laws would probably not avail much in any event. We have enough laws probably, but it seems to us that too many precious lives have been lost in Indiana within the past few years by bursting boilers. Only a few days ago four lives went out at Idaville, a bright, energetic little town ot White county, by the bursting of a boiler. Two of the victims left widows who were bright and happy brides only about six months ago. The four men killed were standing quietly around the boiler awaiting for the steam to arise, when the boiler exploded and hurled them into eternity. Therecertainly could not have been any very recent inspection of that boiler, or if there had been the inspector who passed it with a goodcondition certificate should have been arrested and tried for murder. We wish to warn the farmers of Indiana, now that the wheat harvest is about to begin, against detective boilers and reckless, incompetent engineers. More lives are lost during the threshing out of wheat every year in this state by bursting boilers than any other one causa. It may be for economy's sake that so many reckless engineers are allowed to roam througn the country with defective boilers attached to their steam threshers, or it may be tbe result of ignorance or carelessness to see that their machinery ia in proper condition, but let tha reason be what it may, human lives should not be jeopardized. Farmers should sea to it that not a grain of wheat be threshed on their farms until the steam thresher is thoroughly examined and passed upon as trustworthy by competent authority. Boilers should be examined frequently and engineers Ishould be sober, competent, trustworthy and reliable. If the proper precautions were taken at each returning harvest so many lives would not be iot-t every year iu Indiana as has been the .experience heretofore. We have not referred to the hundrcvls and thousands of boilers used in the factories of the state. Comparatively the loss oi life in the factories is not so large as the loss by bursting boilers during the wheat threshing period This may seem strange, but we believe the statistics of these frequent casualties at the time we name will bear us out in our etatement. If this is true it demonstrates that careful, watchful engineers are employed for

! tho most part in the manufacturing esiablishmeuts of Indiana, v-hile the reverse is truo concerning tho.v who run steam threshers from farm ti iarra throughout the threshing season. We say then to tbe farmers of Indiana, inspect your engineora ss well as your boilers. The IMattnrm. The platform as adopted by the democratic convention at Chicago Wednesday night could have been improved b brevity, . and it scatters too much. Aside from these ' defects it is, lin tho main, a good demo- , rratic document. The sections relating to the force bill are in every way admirable and put the party squarely and unequivocally on record as unalterably opposed to tho nefarious republican proposition to Mexicanize j our government und destroy the liberty : of the people. It was hardly necessary to put in words the democratic opposition to this un-American project of the repub- ! lican party, but it was perhaps well to thus forcibly call the attention of the country to the long step to monarchy and despotism which the republican party proposes when it urges the adoption of a force bill. The tariff plank, ai altered by the action of tbe convention itself, is highly satisfactory to the more earnest tari.l reformers. The convention put the party in a far better position than the majority of the committee had conte'? plated leaving it. The silver plank defines the historical position of the democratic party with sufficient positivenees, and, while probably not wholly satisfactory to the radicals on either side of the money question, will fully meet the views of the vast majoritythe practical, conservative, substantial masses of the great democratic partv. The'comroon school and immigration planks are novelties in the way of national platform literature, but tney are quite in keeping with the love of liberty which inspires the party of the people in all things. All in all the platform sets forth unmistakably the devotion of tho democratic party to the cause of the masses against tbe classes. It breathes of freedom commercially, physically, politically and religiously ; it declares the purpose of the party to uplift tbe people ; to take the burden of taxation from the back of the toiler; to continue the grand, progress made by tbe republic under the constitution J to Uphold and extend tbe work of tasking this "the land of the free and the home of the brave,'' It is to be hoped that we have done forever with that ancient nonsense about tbe "two wings" of the democratic party "flopping together." When a party has two wings such as the democratic party was supposed to have on tbe tariff question, the more they flop together Clio worse it is for the bird. One faces towards its head and the other towards its tail, and by their combined efforts tho unfortunate owner acquires a motion not advantageous to anything but a gyroscope. It is time the democratic party qnit flopping. It has been spinning around long enough. What it ought to do it to fly straight forward. TnE speech of Permanent President Wilson to the democratic convention Wednesday was one of tbe soundest pieces of political oratory ever delivered to a national convention. Thero was no flubdub, no rubbish, no pyrotechnics ; it was a cold, calm, dispassionate setting forth of the truth, 'appealing not to the emotions but to the

judgment of its hearers and readers. It I was the speech, not only of the orator and ! the rhetorician, but of tbe student; it set

forth conviction drawn from a study of conditions and of history; it was logical, forceful, baldly and distinctly truthful and unanswerable. It will go down to history as a model production of patriotic statesmanship. Is casting his lot with Cleveland Senator Palmer made a statement that is liable to go down to history as one of the shrewdest political predictions ever made. He said : If Illinois eaves the country for Cleveland, with New York striving for hia defeat, New York will cease to be the important factor in national politics. If Illinois determines his nomination, and New York succeeds in defeating him, it will be the last time the Empire state will have any appreciable influence in democratic politics. It h an open secret that there are many thousands of democrats in the country who would be gratified beyond measure if we could elect Cleveland and lose New York. That result is quite within the limits of possibility, and if it occurs, then "Good-by New York" in national politics, and "Gof.l-by Tammany" in New York City. All the democratic party wants is a square test of the question of Tammany's democracy, and that's what we are going to have this year. Grover Cleveland's nomination was a triumph of the people. The demand for him was so universal that the convention could not have rejected him without such a flagrant defiance of public sentiment as would have invited disaster in November. Whether Mr. Cleveland is the strongest man that could have been nominated or not as to which The Scntinel, speaking for itself, has no doubt there is no question that he is the man the people w anted, and the convention did its simple duty to the democratic party, which it represented, by nominating him. He stands for honest administration, tariff reform, economical government, pure democracy. He will carry Indiana and New York and several northwestern and New England states which have not cast their electoral vote for a democrat for a generation. A distinguished Indianian and etanch supporter of Harrison immediately after the election four years ago remarked: "We have unloaded him on the country, now let the country take care of him." From the absence of shouting republicans hereabouts, one would infer that that Bentuneiit has spread. The nomination of Cleveland is everywhere recognized, at home and abroad, by the press of ail shades of political belief as i he choice of the people against the politicians. ET CETERA. "Pa, what do they mean by 'polling the delegates' at the conventions? Is it anything like 'oluubina' them to make them vote the right way ?" "You have got a new hired girl, I see, Mrs. Youngwife." "Yes, I got her about a we- k ago." "How do you like her?" "Very much, indeed. Mie lets me do a most aa I like about the house." .V, Y. J'rtfit. "Why, you have no servants at all in your house now." "No." "What has become of your hired man?" "My husband tired him whisky." "And your hired girl?" "he fired herself kerosene." X. Y. Prr$. The Czech students who male themselves popular at the gymnastic festival at Nancy, promenaded the streets of Paris in a costume consisting of a yellow jacket over a red shirt, with baggy troos-r stuiTed in thir boots a costume louder than an American college yell. Austin Corbix designs to plant 20.000 hawthorn trees on his great game park in New Hampshire. The trees have all been imported from England and 4,000 have e far been eet out. Tbey are to serve asa hedge to retain the buflalo and otiier large game within the limits of the preserve. It ia related that President Harrison, then only a colonel, could not promptly serure surgeons to care for his wounded after the battle of New Hope Church. He therefore took off his coat, rolled up his sleevea and did what he coul 1 himself to stanch the flow of blood and to dress wounds He directed that tents be torn up into bandages and he epent hours in work over his disabled soldiers before the surgeons arrived. Paris is to celebrate on Aug. 10 the one hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the national convention a day otherwise memorable for the massacre of the Swiss guards by an infuriated mob. Ful y two hundred persons have written to the commutes iu charge of the festival offering to lend locks of hair cut from the heads of Louis XVI. and his queen. If all these locks are authentic there must have been a great bribing of barbers in those gay times. Proctor Knott was the orator of the day at the Vanderbilt university commencement. Since bis retirement from the governor's chair of Kentucky Mr. Knott has been practicing law at Frankfort. He is a man of apparently sixtyfive years, slightly below medium night, stout, with white mustache and gray hair. His oration wts an eloquent one and showed that he has not lost the lingual dexterity which made Duluth famous on two continents. . The young crown prince of Germany, who entered the army as a lieutenant a few tiara ago, is now learning to ride an Arabian horse presented to him by his father on his tenth birthday. He was unfortunate enough to fall from the steed while riding about the royal park at Potsdam recently. He was not injured seriously, however. Although be could not be persuaded to take his mount a second time that day, he got into the saddle as uaual on the following morning. II is a plucky boy. and is already popular with Lis future subjects. It is eaid that the confederate brigadier is falling out of public lifo. Only ten southern generals are left in the senate, and not half as many survive in tho house. The most picturesque of them all is Walthall of Mississippi, who succeeds Lamar in the senate. Gen. Walthall is a tall and a very slender man, with a veritable ninne of black hair. He entered the confederate service as a lieutenant and rose so quickly in rank that when the battle of Mission Ridge was fought it was he who was in charge of the brigade that bore the brunt of Hooker's attack. I'tly and Hat-fill. But I couldn't help it. Everything went wrong with me, and I thought I hadn't a friend in the world; dyspepsia caused this, and for months 1 couldn't eat anything, and just suffered in misery till I used Sulphur Bitters. Three bottles cured me. D.LcwU. 22 Bowiiain-tL. EmLul Uoak

cSUNDAY THOUGHTS t

OM4 MORALS r MANNERS KT A CLKROYafAX. "Pure religion and undefiled before God" id an inward etate of mind and heart 'T.s a conscience void of offense toward God and toward man. Love, joy, gentleness, peace, righteousness these are tbe constituent elements of religion. When these things are in us they will work out of us. Thus religion is manifested in conduct But tho manifestation is not religion, it is only the fruit of it. Keligion has a creed and it has a code of morale, but it is a life. The Jehovietic sub-names and titles in the Hebrew scriptures offer an interesting and profitable etudy. The name Jehovah meana "I am." It asserts the self existence, eternity and unchangeableness of the diety. When combined with other and modifying designations th name of Jehovah adds to its original signification the meaning of the suffix. Thus JehovatiJireh is the providing God; JehovahNisi is th banner God, i. e., the ensign or rahyiug point of the faithful; JehovahKobi is God, the shepherd a suggestive name among a pan .oral people; Jehovahfsbalom is tbe God of peace, dwelling in everlasting calm, himself not only, but quieting the strifes and agitations of this lower world. Theo'ogy is not necessarily divinity, nor are theologians always divines. The two best H's are those which head health and happiness. In church and temperance circles a good deal of unnecessary surprise is expressed oyer the perennial popularity cf the saloon its prominence und influence in the land. It should seem that a little thought and even "less observation would suffice and explain the enigma. A recent writer in one of the magazines discloses the cret: '"'ine sa'oon is the poor man's club, and flourishes most vigorously in th poorest sections of the city. Instead of denouncing the saioon on account of the numerous evils it inflicts on the poor, something better must be supp ied to take its place. The multitudes who patronize the salmon are not absolut fois. Manv se-k simpiy to satisfy the craving after fellowship which the creator has implanted in human nature. The sttloon is a wellli.'hted, conveniently located social club, provided with a pieasant readingroom and an obliging pro-pri-tor. Wise people are beginning to see that a substitute must be supplied to take tlie place of the sahxn which shall retain a 1 the good features and eimpiy discard the evil elements." Such a substitute, it is claimed, has been found in the Te-To-Tum cfi'ee-hou?e system. These coffee houses are in actual operation in London. They combine all the popular .eatures of the saloon, with the elimination of intoxicants the accessibility, the fellowship, the brightness, the good cheer, the independence, the games, the reading-room. And these places are successful, both as a reformatory agency and as a business venture. They save, they pay. The originator of the Te-To-Tum system is a gentleman of large means and practical philanthropy a Londoner named P. B. Buchanan. lie is now iu this country, and is endeavoring to domesticate his plan here. At a gathering of prominent gentlemen of kindred spirit and aims, in New York, the other day, Mr. Buchanan gave a graphic account of hia crusade-. Among other things he said: "Having teen pitched into by a parson for doing noth ing for Christ. I thought this would bn a good way to find out what I could do for Him. I don't mean to say it wasn't a tremendous wrench to give up my o d home, and to begin to live over again among these chaps. Bui the love of it grew on me, and now, after seven years of it, I'm mora in love with it than ever." Why not try the Te-To-Tum idea in this town? Are there not among us men or women with long purses and large hearts, with faith and zoal, too, able and willing to Initiate such a movement? Michael Angeo once entered a place at Home wiiere Itaphael was ornamenting a ceiling. As he waked around he saw that all the figures w-re too small for the room. Stopping a moment he sketched on one side an immense head, proportioned to the chamb-r. When his friends abked him why he didn't tell Raphael of the fault he replied : "I criticise bv creation, not by finding fault" Is not that the noblest criticism? We advise our temperance friends to stop blackguarding the saloon and to find something better to put in its place. A great many folks nowadays are fearful that the bible is being undermined. No fear of that The book is its own best advocate and interpreter. "As those wines which flow from the grapes are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which gives them the roughness of the husk and fetone," remarks Lord Bacon in his thoughts on "The Bes, Kinds of Controversy;" "so are those doctrines best and sweetest which flow from a gentle crush of the scriptures, and are not wrung into controversies and common places." r J'Tis Jesus himself who says "Search the scriptures. "And the promise is that they who seek shall find. Dickens has a novel called "Great Expectations." They didn't pan out very well they seldom do. The older w e grow

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the less we expect 'Tis the prerogative of youth and inexperience to dream drea-i.s. In middle life we discover that one day is much the same as another that life is a dusty t lam that anticipation is onlv another way of spelling disappointmentthat happiness isJa home-spun affair that the true philosopher doesn't live a-tip-toe, but tettles down on his heels and enjoys himself as he goes along, extracting honey from the pasaing hour, and taking this for his favorite beatitude: Blessed are they who expect nothing, for tbey shall not be disappointed. Whether Columbus was actually bora within the walls of Genoa ia a dispute! point; some contending that he came into the world on the coast near by tha quaint old Italian seaport. No matter; the bouse in which he passed his boyhood is even yet a prominent feature in Genoa a tall, narrow house, in a tall, narrow street, with tall, narrow surrounding. Genoa has other claims upon the attention and affection of mankind. Here the great Irieh agitator, Daniel O'Connell, died in a room now occupied by the secretary of tht American conul. Here Byron dreau.ed 6nd wrote, liere Dicken loved to come and look out over the blue Mediterranean. G..:ioa the superb, it is well called. Home of beauty. Home of art. Home of fame. Home of Columbus. In this Columbian year we salute thee! Candor and cnaracter begin with tht fame letter and eome to about the came thing. Devotedness is, so to speak, the divine side of our humanity. P. Ftiiz. In order to do good to others we must cotne into personal contact with them. It was never expected that Christians would hand bread to eacn other as Jonathan ate honey off the end of his etaff. C. i Robinton. AH government is the outward form ot an inward grace or disgrace. France E. II illardL In this country questions remain unsettled until thev are brought into the form

! of detate, and landed in the urn of des ! tiny, which Americans call the ballot-box, J where king majority, the only ruler fit to j survive, arbitrates finally upon them. lb. No man or woman oi the humblest sort can really be strong, pure and good without somebody being helped and co forted by the very existence of this goodness. J hiti')p8 Brockt. If, invisible ourselves, we cou!d follow a single human being ti. rough ooj day of his hie and know dl his secret thoughts and hopes and anxieties, hia prayers and tear and good resolves, his nelights and i woes and strugg es. we should have p oetry enough to hu a volume. Unit IJood. Nothing is more expensive than penuriousnesa, nothing more anxious thaa care- ; le-snese, and every day which is bidden to wait returns with seven lreau duties at its back. Charit Kinjslty. A Cornell professor told hia students t'other day that the man who eells his vote is more worthy of respect than ha who stays at home and does not vote at all. Well, perhaps eo, but we can't get ud much more enthusiasm for the "blocks of five" style of statesmanship. Wouldn't it be better to disfranchise the voter who won't vote and to sen'l to etate prison the n an who buys and the man who seiis a vote? We commend this suggestion to the Cornell pedagogue. Miss Emma Bradley of Chicago has established, at her own charges, a mission school in one of the worst quarters of the city. She lives in the Rchool-room and shares her foo l with a number of pensioners who come to her table every day. Emin Push a has as manv lives as a cat He is regularly killed one day and as regularly resurrected the next, week in and week out He has rendered great services to civilization, but is nevertheless a great international nuisance. If the intreuid explorer "still lives" let him live. If be is dead bury him, for the weather is warm and he etinketh. That the Roman catholics should have decided to establish a summer school of their own, remarks the ChriMlan-nt-Work, furnishes striking and eL'niticant illustration of the marked tendency of that church in this country to utilize purely American methods for propagating the faith and stimulating the zeal of the faithful. The university extension plan has come to the front; but that embraces the idea of higher studies for those not having tbe opportunity of attending college, and is a separate thing. The Chautauqua idea amplified eo as to Pear the closest possible touch to the life of today, would bring home many valuable ' hints and he ps for economizing time und effort that now go to waste. Tho care of the poor, tbe tramp nuisance, village improvement, drainage, economical municipal government, hygiene, household economy these and innumerable other problems, together with instructions in the bible and matters pertaining to the religious lite might be brought under an elastc Chautauqua scheme by the presbyterians, episcopalians, congreeationadsts and baptists, who are at present neglecting their opportunities. That the methodists have pursued this plan in their own way end so euccfssiullv, and that the Roman catholics are about to adopt the same i means for promoting the interests of their church, suggests the inquiry whether the other Christian denominations aie not odstakenly allowing a great opportunity to pass by unimproved. 11 sick headache is misery, what are Carter's Little Liver Pills if they will positively cure it? People who have need them epeak frankly of their worth. They are small and easy to take.