Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1893 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRTJATtT 15. 1S93 TWELYE PAGES.

INDIANA STATE SENTINEL BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. . t. MORES. President.

Itstertd at the Poitofhce at lnI!anapotia aa second hiM datier. TF.KM IT.K YKATU Rjf? efTT (InTarlaMy In AdTanee.)......Jl OO Va-1 ?rr rr-, to I 'srin mimi r1 eket th- lr CSF lif t p;- r nlwn they ee:iie to take aiibscrirfcc acd uatev.p tluha. .fnt ikinp tip cl.ib T 4 for arv Information feittd. .Ad. TfaE IM lAroi TS SENTINEL Int!anr oü. n4. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1893. FREE. $2 for $1. Civ a (i I! CHICAGO, ILL. TTsekly, lö to 32 ragea, I luttmted. Sabacrlptioa price, 1 a year. Devoted to General Farming, Ltnrsea, Cattle, Pheep, Swins, the Dairy and the Chicago Market Reports. Jmt tbe purer every intelligent farmer, l',ock-raier and dairyman will dud speeia.ly Interesting aai valuebli. Sent Frcetor One Year To snr.scri ers for The Indianapolis Fentinet. Each rw yearly sulner:cer forltiE WLEKLY SFN i'lNLL, in clut'i of three or more, with rem tt tr o- of M each, w i. receive for one year, J"KLE OF CHUU-i:, the Week! National lire ;cei aud Parin Jeurual. Two l'apers k ths Fricö of One This rcmarkab!? liberal offer is made for a limited t'me- onlv to secure new subscribers, and is confined to tbose who are net now taking either The Sentinel or the Journal. STECIAL TERMS for the Jonrnal and sevenl utt.t-r r wr t.ilba mat to preeol Subscriber of The J-eritmel who eat out thie ederienint ni sen t it, ieeloaint; two nw-eeet stamp ti Nitionil Live ücoek and Farm JonrEil. C'ii:'ß4.". Kernt y draft on Chicago or New York po-t! erder. registered Itir or express order. Addrrta 1 M)I A N A 1 0 LI S S K N II X IX CO. , I Tdi r f pol is, Itid. you th.it cor.'rep has officially announced the result we hope that Thomas II. C.r.n u wil acknowledge that Cleteund is elated. J.mk Uu'.viy tare It up eorie days ago. Tr.nOhto state boird of hilth is endeavoring to abo ish kiaeing. on the pro nr.! thnt it transmits dissase. Persietrinc :n thie curse will more probably tloiisrt tLe state board. Masy atates havo lived aaJ pro'crtd witnnut any hoard cf health, but nr.e ever without kissing. Tcaiit lv it m?.v transmit diecme, bot tue remedy id wor th(t dit-eüce. are roafidtol tükt tl.e rettra of America -will rit tip ai ono taaa aad raj trm on your transuiiuf r. Another insane a?ylurn horror ia reported. Foriv-iour inmates copa 1 up in ft t.r.ilar box i.ave been roaiile l alir?. It iroul i Fea n tliat omebody otifht t b held rt8jon9:!j e for thie awful Farrstice. Tliis was a pnblic :n-titati n, an J tha aiats of New Ilarnr i'irö is not so impoverished that it co'lM n-"t iinve a"":or ii reason aMo fcnritr to its iipies ward. Safety coaatruclion haa reached a roint where the orcurrBQce of such traji-idiei ia wholly unnecessary and becorii3i alnaost murder. CoN;Fr 5 VedneadRycanva?-! the electoral vote cust in November and announred the repaltaa folows: Cievelanh 277, llAitni.oN 115 and Wr.AVEi: 22. liut for eharp practice in Norih Dakota "Wewek would have had - votes, but in ordr to pive hitn eometinnz like a repectsble ?ianüin oni oi We wer's Totea from thtt state wna transferred to IIakkieon This "vas the f:rt time in tbirtrtwoyars tHt :t was necvftäary to u.Je three column of Lures in tabulating the votw. ' It "errf a rrr-t:r hard ' te that a man Iflic) has E' ccrrjf-!'-btd eo much and has ttood eo Lirii in tho public cBteein m Ferdinand i;: Lrs.-rr piioill die in pri;on, Yt-t tb.at is vry likely to be his fats, for it in not probtbie that public ympathy will ei-ure a commutation or lhatbewUl survive the i:2rracp. Not with the intlntion of hitting a man when he is down or with a desire to unreasonably disparage his achievement, it may not b improper to tay that posit !y the iLt thrown upon DeLr.s. t.i''s chararr and tnethoda during the rentr.t in vestisti jn is truer than any unler which ha had aver before beoa placed.. When the Suez canal was put through the esnd there wert (rrave rurt'jrs cf scandal abroad. Hut newrap?r correpondetitii were not as acrekt-ive and inquisitive then as now, mean of coinxnunioation ware imperffct and the rumors received little attention. Ttiat thousands, yc8, teas of thousands of lives ware sacrificed in the nndtrtaking ia known. JIuch of the fatality was undoubtedly trainable te the 'reed of contractors. Bat success crownl te effort and acandal is ever pi ent ia the presence of aneeis. Vi'hüö all will sympathize with this feeble, broken down, di'raced o d man there will yet b tnos ineiinei te donbt whetker justice has really bees te9 severe. Why do American cirls dislike hoaatwork? It surely does Dot arise from a desire to shirk duty, labor or responsibility. It probably is the rcsalt of repugnance to the drndzery, and a certain lowering of supposed seli-reapset In addition to this, a girl who (roes out to work na a domestic cats her f off largely from the beat eenranionhip. Therefore wo aee a rnsh to the stares fer positions aa ealeswemeB. This has been very marked in Chica?, and to such an extent that hcmsmaiis, cooks and other domestics avre difficult to eltain. The eirls have all songht positions in atores and manafactnring establwhinenta. There they obtain tetter vir, perhaps more deoirable corn panier a ip and more genial sarrooadic?g Benerly. Mils Fiaxcm M. Abbott In a neat article in the Forum discusses tbo matter at length and with maea interest. She tnkea larly the tame view of the matter as that a ready indicated. She says In concluding her pper: Tho aio'e domestic lacta aociety ; ihe is !i lated from the family life and she caa

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never call any time ber own. Girls will work all day amid .the eteam of a laundry, the fames of a factory, the bad air of a lowing room, becttiae there they have companionship, their hoars are defined, and they are their own mistrep?es when the dav'e work is done. It is impossible to have these conditions in domestic service except in very wealthy families, and there the workers must be brandod as servant;. As there is every probability that house-was; will (79 hither rather than lower, and aa the girls will not cooue to the bouses, the honoes must go to the girl." The gir's of this state are evidently being influenced by the same motives and are seeking other avenues of employment than tho.se which pass through domestic servitude.

The State School Tax. The question of reducing the state school tax 5 cents is a plain buBineas question. In 19Q the total assessed valuation of the state was $S57,674,3S7. A lucent levy on this made a tax of $1,372. 270.02. No one claimed that this waa not enough for the etate to pay. In his report for lS'K) th superintendent of publio instruction recommended that the limit of local taxation for tuition be increased from 25 cents to 50 cents, but never hinted at any increase of the etate tax. The result of the new tax law was thst the valuation increased enormously. For the present year it is $1,267.702.342. A 16cent levy on this would produce $2,028,32 74 or $ .!:,$ l. 17 mora that was produced by the same levy in lSf3. A levy of 11 cents wi 1 now produce J 1,39 4,4 72.57, which is J22.in3.ft5 more than in 1S:0. The proposition now is to make the levy 11 cents. If the legislature of 1801 had known juat what the increase of va uation would be, it would have fixed it at that 6cure. In addition to the fact that no increase was contemplated or desired, it is desirable that this tax be reduced in order to allow provision for a sinking fund for a gradual redaction of the state d-bt It is under every obligation of honor and decency to do this. It ia under pledge to tho people, and its speakers and its pren have defended the tax law on the ground that it would provide means for the gradual extinguishment of the state debt. Th legislature of 1 .SO 1 bepan the work of olying the iinincial proble ns of the etate. Its system bus worked well. In that work to be now stopped to satisfy the greed of a fw counties that receive inor money from the etata tax than they pay in? That ia the question. Is the democratic party firm enouch and sensible enough to carry out a financial program without permitting the furuls to be sidetracked at the demand of some in-tert-st or other? Ii the 1-gislature is to by swerved fr. in a f' raiffhtforward path by the demands of a few counties with padded enumerations and nnderva ued property, the democratic party would better retire from business. Of course it will b claimed that Marion connty is interested in the other directioa, and it ia trno thnt she is. For years she has paid over 5f IKH) mere of eehool tax each year than hti been reapportioned to her. and she is willing to do as ehe has teen doing. H it it is aIo argued that this extra tux is paid by lhe wealthy corporations" of .Marion county, and this is not true. The principal corporations of Marion countv ara the railro.td?, an 1 of th5 he has beow the average of the state. Iliilroad property forms only 0 per e nt. of tier property valuation, whtie for t:-t Plate it forma ncariy l:i per cnt. The tax in .Marion countv falls on individuals as moi-li as it does anywhera. If h r enumeration were padded as Clay county'B is, Marion county too wou d receive more than sue payi in. Marion count, asks nothing but justice, but this matter is abov local interests. It appea's to th common sense and justice of the legislators. It appeals to their loyalty to the promises of their rartyIt is urged against the proposed reduction of the school ttx that th? constitution of Indiana contemp ated that the common HCii oolshhotil l be entirely supported by the state tax. This is true, and the earlier decisions of the supreme court held that any local taxation for tuition was unconstitutional and void. Hut after a few years we grew out of the old idaa. It was found that certain communities desired to give their children more xchooling than others, and legislature; kept passing Isws to permit them to tax themselves for that purpose, and gradually the supreme court abandoned its old position. It decided that local taxes cou:d be levied for one educational purpose or another connected with the common school system, until rinally in l1) the last vestige of the od constitutional theory was wiped out of existence ia Ron in son vs. Schen'C Jv (102 Indiana, 307). In that case Judge Ki-i.iott said : It is aimply and absolutely impracticable ior a general law to juat y knd adequately provide for the necessities of all the fftvernmental subdivisions of the state. It ia poas b e, and only possible, to build up an etiieient syetem by leaving local school matters, under proper general laws, to the peeple of tha diifereat localities. The old constitutional theory U therefere obliterated in Indiana and the constitution as now interpreted by the supreme court means merely that the state funds most provide common school education for a limited time im every school district in the state, and theme districts which desire moro may pay fer it themselves, up to the limit (uader the presentlaw) of 25 ccnte taxation on $100. Under thu construction enr schools have made great progress. The atate funds provided in 1890 for an average of feur months schools everywhere, and in many 'laees the local taxation provided ier five or mix months more. Bat with that growth there has cornea peculiar iert of development that was never contemplated by the constitution. Our echo are teaching a great many thiags that have no connection with a "ceaimoa cheol education," and it is certainly very questionable whether this development is advantageous to the scheois or to the state. The same state of thiais exists elsewhere, and in many localities there ia now being made an earnest fight against the extra features ef the public school werk. For example we cite the follewiag from the Chicago Tribuns as to the Illineis schoo s: All the fads must go. They are exereecences and ehou'd be uprooted. They form no part f a common school education for bread winneri. The itudies .which are needful for the children of the

masses, constituting 90 per cent, of the . whole people, are (1) spelling and read-1 ing. (2) writing, (3) arithmetic, (4) geog- j raphy, (5) American, history, and (6) En- i

gush grammar the latter for chi dren over fourteen years of age, aa under that age they are not likaly to comprehend it. Drawing, sewing, mud molding, einging, paper cutting, physical culture, German and the other fancy studies fritter away the pupils' time, divert their young minda from the essential studies, and send them out into the world without anv education of value in the atru?gl of life. Visionaries, cranks, tadits and specialists after salaries have nearly ruined the common school system of Chicago, a though it costs an enormous sum to maintain it, hal as nsuoa indeed as all the other departments of the city government. The roonev spent on fads is raooev taken from the taxpayers unlawful y. The public schools impart not more than half the instruction in the eix primary fundamental branches that should aod could be communicated to the children. In other words, six millions a year of taxes, wrung from the earners of them, only give three millions of useful results. Ninetv per cent, of the taxpayers do not want fads taught. They want their children to receive a common school education in the fundamentals which the law contemplates und for which thev are taxed, and not the fripperies which the law does not contemplate and yet for which they are taxed just the same. If the other 10 per cent, want fails taught to their children thev can send them to private echoo's, which are not regulated by law and in which any fad or nothing but fads will be taught, according to the wish and the length of the parents' purse. This Gght has not yet opened in Indiana, thoutrh there have been frequent signs of discontent wi h the present system, but it will not take many years of huh taxes to bring it. There are very few places in Indiana where the local tax levy is up to the limit except in towns and cities where the ''advanced" idea of pedagogy has taken root. If these corporations desire that sort of thing let them have it, but no parent ii entitled to expect any thintr from the etate tax but a plain, common school education for his children. If he wsnts more let him send his children to private schools, and dancing schools and Delsarte classes and art schools, or anywhere else he desires. There is no neceisity for greater provision than is made by the interest on the common school fund, a state tax of 11 cents, and t!ie letl 1 'cal Uvy to provide "common echool education" anywhere in Indiana. AtlvcrtUcment of Itallota. Now that the proposition to do away with advertisement of ballots in the newspaper line bean considered by the senate we wish to call attention to one fact that appears to have been overlooked by the advocatesof the chnngo. The advertisement is the only method by which the names o: the candidates are brought before the voter by the governmental authorities prior to the day of election. The political parties thus far have ieaued aumple ballots for the instruction of voiers that have -rvel the same purpose, but there is no certsinty that they will always do 60. The expense of ea-rtle ballots is coniiderable, and after the voters of the slate have become familiar with the system of voting the po itical part es will have no special motiv for isitiir.g them. Pnrties expend tnonav for their own benefit, and not tor the purpose of instructing the public as to whois riiTinhv'on the opposition tickets. They tiütially advertise tbur own tickets, but no one ever heard of their advertising others. resides, the object of this law was to give the state entire control of the machinery of elections from the first move to tho last It was believed desirable that ail the work ehou d be done by responsible agents of the state rather than b irrepponfibld ngents of parties. In eo tr as it was necessary to recognize political parties they were recognized and hrouL'iit within the restrictions of law as to all actions connected with elections. The theory cf the Australian bal ot law is that elections are of vital importance to the dtate, and it is the duty of the Mite to ee that they are properly conducted. We do not see how the soundness of this principle can be i'.i-r-tiuneJ. It is the business of the state to see that the voter has an opportunity to canvass the merits of respective candidates prior to election day. Tho only way it can do so is to make ollicial announcement of their names. It cannot compel political parties to make the announcement, and it cannot compel them to make correct announcements in case they choose to iaue earup e ballots. The Gold nnd Silver Product. The absurd misrepresentations ef the gold-bug element as to the great increase of production of silver are put in their true lifc'ht by tne staMitics for 18t2. The Flua. trial Ch rciick'f statement of production shows a decrease in the silver production from thatof 1801 of 330.000 ounces. On the other hand, the production of gold has increased 560,422 ounces over 1.S01, and has increasod 1,200,024 over the averaze ior live years previous. The product of go'd for 1802 was 6,615,611 ounces, having a money value of 140.50S,903. The product of silver wss 58.000,00. ounces, having amonev value of about $10,310,000. In other words, the gold product was nearly three times the eilver product. This certainly does not indicate any alarming increase in the quantity of silver being brought into use, or any reason for decrease in price from natural causes. On the contrary it demonstrated conclusively that the depreciation of silver or the appreciation of gold, which is the same thing is due wholly to artificial causes. During the years 1811-00 the relative amounts of the word's supply of gold and silver was one ton ef th former to thirty of the latter. The relative value ef the two throughout the fifty yesra from 1820 to 1870 was uniformly 1 ' to 15.6. From 1S70 there was a marked increase in the relative production of geld.Jwhich continued to gain until in 18S1-2 the world's supply of siiver was enly 1S.4 tons to 1 of gold. So far as natural causes are concerned this should have produced a strong gain in the relative value of silver, but in H79 the business of demonetization bagan, and through it' there resulted a heavy decline in the value of silver, the value rati being reluced to one of ailver to 21.2 of god. Frem 1832 to 1SD0 there was a gradual increase in the relative' supply of silver, the ratio increasing to 18.7 tons of ailver to one of a-old, but in 1S!K) the value of silver suddenly increased until the value ratio was 1 to 18.3. Since then goldbug legislation

has forced the ratio down to I to 25, bat the pretense that this was in any war produced by the amount of the metals mined is dissipated by the fact that the product of 1S9-' was only 8.8 tons of silver to one of gold, or less than one-half the existing ratio in the world's supply. Theke is no doubt as to the temper of the house in regard to the Roby infamy. That has been proven by the vote on the Barnes bid, which was passed by the practically unanimous vote of 73 to 1, because the popular opinion held for a time by The Sentinel as we I as by the members of the house and we believe by the author was that the bill would wipe out

the Lake county plague spot. In that light the vote U an honor to Indiana. It is a fitting rebuke to the hired lobby of this gang of unprincipled toughs, who are accustomed to make their way on the European plan of paving for what they get. Close examination of the bill in question, however, leaves much doubt aa to whether it would accomplish the desired object. To matte it sure and binding the senate ought to amend the measure so that it wou'd compel the county and etate officials to enforce the law after it is enacted. Speaking for itself, Tns Sentinel thinks that thoroughly conscientious officials in Lake county could break up the gang under the present laws. The thing to do is to get not only an effective law, but means for insuring ita enforcement. Fkom every county In the state there has come an earnest appeal for the legislature to pass the grand army encampment appropriation. The reputation of the etate is involved in the action that may be taken on this bill. It is to be hoped that the legislature fully appreciates this and that it realizes, as The Sentinel has before suggested, that it cannot a ford to assist in the ellort to make a failure ot the encampment. It should not permit itself to be tnis'ed on this question by misrepresentations and bad advice. It will act wisely if it gives the encampment the support due it as the greatest publio undertaking involving the honor of the etate. ET CETERA. One of the most charming contrasts in the whole wide world is a pretty modem girl industriously studying a page of Attio Greek. JStmervilk Journal. The countess of Aberdeen keeps eighty servants at her Scotland home and is paid to be the one woman in Great Britain who has solved the problem of retaining her s-rvants. Stephen G. Bovoof York. Ta., formerly editor of the York duzcth, has just been admitted to the bar after passing a very creditable examination lie was fdxtyone years of age when be began his law studies. A rooR French peasant woman whose husband was seriously wounded by a German fo'e-ter on the Alsa'an frontier has refused to accept th? indemnity of 2.."00 francs odered her by the German governnunt. Prori.E who will keep pnrrcts must tnka the coneequtncds. An old lady in a Pennsylvania tvn was recently terribly mortitied while receiving ca lers on accou nt of tier parrot's frequent criea : ''She wears a wig. She wears a wig'." Wilson McDonald, the Fcu'ptor, whose Hancock statue ia Boon to grace the upper end of New York, is modelir.g a statuette of James G. B aine. It wi I be thirty inches high and will be finished in bronze, terra cotta or any metal desired. Now that Funny Kemble is dead it is recalled that iu her youth site took a most gloomy and pessimistic view of life, though endowed with every blessine that makes lile enjoyable. Ibit in her old ae she was the personification of optimism, eniiii'-ntly cheeriul and unrepining. Samuel llAKMoxof Fox Hill, Fa., claims that he has eaten io the last twenty years 3.iC0 pies. Iiis regular consumption has been half a pi each day. Mr, Harmon declares thst he has never known what dyspepsia is like, and bis neighbors ami towns-people say ha is a man of truth aud veracity. Senator Coi.qcitt of teorgia. who has been lighting paralysis all winter at his home, expects to go up to Washington about a fortnight hence and stay oer March 4 to attend the sp cial executive seas on of the senate that is to be ca led to confirm Mr. C.t velaud's appointments. Senator Colquitt is seventy years of age. The wife of Payard Taylor is gentle and refined. Her eyes are blue and her hair blnde, streaked with white. She dresses entiro'y in black since her widowhood, though in her earlier years she wore b tie a grent ieal. as it wns the color which was supposed to be especially becoming. Her voice is chnrminj v soft and low, and the very abght foreign accent which ia perceptible but aids to its pleieant toues. An ordinsry kettle lid eniraped the attention of a judge of the U. S. circuit court and a jury for two days at Chicatro. The plaintiff had been arretted for the alleged larceny of the kettle-lid while he was shopping. He declared that he did not fttesl it and eued the proprietor of the 6tore to recover .-25,000 damazes. The case was in the nature of a tempest in a teapot, and the evidence revealed a tendency on the part of the pot to call the kettle black. The verdict waa for the plaintiff. Marvin Clark, the blind newspaper man, is well known in New York by his specials for the daily papers and other work. It is now nearly five years since he lest his sijht, after a journalistic career that had extended over a period of thirty years. As soon as it wss decided that he was hopelessly blind he taught himself the use of the typewriter, and, by having the papers read to him daily, manages to keep his place as a worker in his profession. He ia steadily cheerful aid uncomplaining and does excellent work. This is the way the pneumatic gnna of the Vesuvius adect a person aboard ship: "Suddenly an intense vibration seemed to pass from stem to etern, followed bv a kind of kick that moved the vessel at least three feet astern, and simultaneously came a sharp, cracking report, not so intense ss that of a powder gun and similar in sound to the explosion of a million popguns. This was the tiring of a five hundred ponnd dummy projectile from the Vesuvius' starboard gun." When loaded for b'ar this projectile csrries dynamite. Francis Murphy, the famous temperance preacher, proposes to establish a workingman's temple in Pittsburg and to r reach therein the brotherhood of man. le is about to leave that city for southern California to do temperance work for a lew months, bot the asauraacesof pecuniary support and hi observations of other signs lead himjto believe that he csn make a great success of this n w scheme. He will begin by giving Sunday night talks in a theater and be hopes to r. ach a large class of men who do not usually attend church services. Salvation Oil curat froitid feet, 25a

SUNDAY THOUGHTS OUs MORALS MANNERS

IT A CXKKQTVAX, A large intellect and a noble spirit will ever find, like the banished duke in "Aa You Like It," tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones and good in everything. The typical scoffer is the devil, and those who are like bim fix "low motives into noble deeds," until not even Helen is beautiful nor Achilles brave. In the temple at Smyrma were looking-glasses which distorted every face the moat innocent and happy. Some Uiinda are like tbode hateful rcilectors. Let us look for the good, the beautiful, the true in men and women ; and looking we shall find them. Otherwise earth would be hell. The story cf Sir Henry Rawlinson's decipherment of the inscriptions upon the lofty rock of Behit-tun, carved in three versions, Persian, Median and Babylonian, is one of the romances of cho arship. Sir Henry was the most eminent orientalist of his day. lie desired to solve the enigma of the cuneiform text; and to do for Assyriology and the cuneiform records what the famous Ilonet'a stone had done for Egyptology and the hieroglyphics. Having found the inscriptions above mentioned he bean his work and pushed it to saccess. Tho difficulties he met and overcame difficulties eo apparently insuperable that previous Fteuch explorers had retired from the fieid in despair the treading of a labyrinth with a c us, the study of the inscriptions graven up in the air 600 feet above the surrounding p'ain, the patience, the energy, the final discovery of the key to the phonetic value of the Assyrian characters the recital is as instructive as it is fascinating. The present International Sundayschool lessons which have mentioned Darius the monarch to whout the records on the rock of Behutun al ude recall and emphasize the world's indebtedness to Haw iaon. During the sessions of the present parliament popular government in Great Britain promises to make notable advances. A bill eecurim; home rule in Ireland is now beinsr debated. If it pa-Pes justice and fair play, long deferred in the Emerald is'e, wi l La at lau domtolicated. The liberals, too. foreshadow in the qu-en's Fpeech which is a ways a kind of political adumbrant the adoption of the one man one vote print ip e. and the restriction of class legislation. Vi:h Mr. Gladstone in Dowuing-st. those whom the old maa ca Is "the classes"' are .ikely have the riyhtmare, while the masses have their innings at last. Long may they hold the field. Life is a journey. We do not always know tho test roads to ths journey's end. One of the beat guides is Faithfulness. Thofe who ense his services are sure of the most consider te treatment on the way, and will rencu their destination in the satfcat and epeediest way. Vanity is usually esteemed (by men) the peculiar prerogative oi women. It is not so. 'Tis the besetting sin of 6very one. For what is vanity? Is it not the undue parading of whatever we most pride ourselves upon possessing? Thus there is a vanity of learning, of talent, of wea'th as well as of dress or looks. The ladies (God b'et-s them) usually have cnu thing to be vain of beauty, accomplishments, amiability or what not. We of the Kternor sex o'ten irlory in our shame ns the prize fighter In his fists, or the miser in his scrim pin. bid T-rt-6 pect is to be diet nguished from vanity. The one leads us to act suitably to nur estate; the other makes v. p ay the peacock and deport ourmdves on the m"8t inopportune occasions. Self-respect regards our character. Vanil? seeks to impress others. Tho firt is lau1abie. The ether is weakness weakness which often leads to sin. The curious in such matters, remarks a re igious contemporary, will find it both amusing and instructive to examine the numerous accounts of the life of the late Benjamin F. Butler, which have appeared of late, and no'.ice how uniformly the adjectives "original" and "unique" are chosen to describe him. No pot-itiortem praiso would have hotter ph ase i him. 'ibe consuming nmbhion of hi life was to ride rough-shod over the opinions and better instincts of society and stan.l out as "original" and "unique." But alas for that ambition! When one ran scarcely turn a corner without running againpt eorr.e one who is aleo trying to be "original" and "unique" by being conspicuously and audaciously conscience less. Let the Hie of Butler, with its hrilliancy, mental ability and lamentable failures, cry out to every young citizen: "If you wbh tobe really original and unique, g-t a conscience, live Dy its slightest dictates, and, if need be, yield up your life in its service." The desconess institution at Kaiserswerth, on the Rhine, celebrated its fiftysixth anniversary the other day. This was the pioneer of this kind. Now there are sixty-three such institutions, with 0.000 deaconesses who supply 2S.0 )0 stations. Tiieir annual income, all of which coms from voluntary contributions, amounts to $1,00),000. Yet the work of these god.y women is so quiet that few know of its existence. Let us learn to distinguish in thesedays of fast and loose theology between doctrine and dogma. A doctrine is some principle that is disclosed or inculcated in the bible. A dogma ia our human conception or explanation of bible truth. Doctrine is to be accepted. Dogma is to be examine), and received oniv when satisfactory. The first is sometimes beyond (not in opposition to) reason ; the second hould a. ways be within reason. Doctrine is all right. Dogma is apt to be all wrong. The one id God-given. The other is man-made. A profane father having overheard bis boy swear like a trooper, threatened him with pun aliment. Looking his angry parent squarely in the face, the little fellow eaitl: "If you whip me, who will whip you." A congregation of Polish Jews in Chicago had a ball a week or two ago. the proceeds of which were to be used in purchasing a cemetery. One of the Chicago editors suggests that each dancer should have been presented with a chromo of Holbein's "Dauce of Death." The police raided the jockey club in Vienna, a swell club, not long ago, and seized 450.000 florins in the card-room, where the elite of the city, together with many representatives of the diplomatic circlee, were gambling. The president of the club protected loudly and threatened to appeal to the emperor, lie did carry

the case to the minister of justice, who told him that it was the emperor who had directed the raid. Upon learning this, the club, like C'apt. Scott'a coon, came down and the gambling ceased. So then it seems that even emperors have their uses. The Louisiana lottery, chafed out of the United States by an indignant publla opinion focused in iaw, has bought from impecunious little Honduras the right to continue its nefarious business there. In consideration of S100.0UO and a royalty of from 1 to 3 per cent on all lottery tickets soli, Honduras oilers to this outlaw an

asylum and agrees to legalize its traffic. How cheap in Honduras. In that hargain it was the lottery that got swindled. Very well. Now let the United States quarantine Honduras. Sneers, like curses, often come home to roost. The favorite occupation of the quidnuncs of Europe used to be sneering at political corruption in the United States. Of late these gentlemen have hsd plenty r.f occupation on their own side of the water. Tinrewa the baccarat scandal, which convu led the aristocratic circles in England. Then came the Panama scandal in France. Then the Guelph eeacdal iu Gem. any. And now we have the bank scandal in Italy. S.gnor Giohtti, the premier, found it convenient, it seems, to use the goverraental funds for electioneering purposes. Needy politicians helped tht-maelves and proceeded to squander the "loans" upon the profligate women of Rome and Nap ee. So.then.it appetra that political corruption is not the specialty of Uncle Sam, but is a weakness common in all systems of government even in monarchies. F'ie, fie, gentlemen! Zeal without discretion ia wrong headed ; therefore let zeal spur on discretion, but discretion rein in teat $L iVrnard. Whosoever indulgei even in little mat ters, in hard judgments and hasty sneers and loud railing against men who dü'er frm him in re igion or politics or tn anything else is deadening his own sense of right and wrong and sowing the seeds of that same state of mind which, as the Son told the pharisees, is utterly the worst into which any man can fall. Chirk A bigot is a man of respectable opinions, but very ordinary talents ; defending what is right without judgment and believing what iw holy without charity. Chnljuld. Truth is od thing and cynicism is another thing. Truth is not a silad, is it. that you must dress it in vinegar? IF. M. Fthtthuv. If there is a God to swear by, is there none in whom to believe, none to whom to pray ? i'ri- ; Tell me, my soul, why art thou restless? Why dst thou look forward to the future iih sucti strong ueajre? The present is thine and the future shall Le. Lonoftllou: Some people are like the drone bee that never makta hone)'. They are always learning, yet never coming to knowledge; a ways gathering, yet never retaining, because what they gather is put into a botttm es sack. The longsr a bee r-8'.B upon a flower the more honey it will gather. St. Franc! 1 S.ihu. 'Tis perilous to tamper with a chart. Thore parts which may be of little importance to one captain may keep another o f the rocke. Aimn. Self-righteoti'-ness is like bad debts; the more a man has the worse he is o J ,N'-z Sunt ft. The beggarly robes of the first Adam must never be put on with the white raiment of the aecond Adam. S,tbr. My father, in speaking of the mannerisms which areallecled by a ce tain school of thought the subdued air. the artificial tone and other forms adopted as indications of unctitv once said something which greatly impressed me. It was this: "Let us be natural until we are divine." AHliv. Decorum and conventionality are cot the mot needed virtues just now. . IF. Alrxmnlrr. An unprofitable servant shall he punished as tiiuch as a prodigal son. Anotx. The straits and the isolation into which unbelief plungea one are attectively described by Hume, the historian: "1 seem ailrighted and confounded by the s litu le in which I am placed by my philosophy. When I look abroad on every side I see dispute, contradiction and distraction. When I turn mv eye inward I lind nothing but duubt aud ignorance. Where am I? What am I? From what cause do I derive my existence ? To what condition shall 1 return? I am confounded with questions. 1 begin to fancy myself in a very deplorable condition, surrounded with darkness on every hide." Poor Hume! No wonder hie Christian mother eaid to him when he tol l tier to get rid of her "prejudices," meaning her Cnriatian faith: "My eon, can you show me anything better?" One thing csn be saiJ of Christianity it Hashes light into the darkness 'hat Hume bewailed. Infidelity never kindles it or.lv niaked the darkness blacker. Christians often complain of a want of light on this, that, and the other point. Ui-e whatever light you have that will always bring more Jight. A belief in the immortality of the soul is axiomatic. Begin with that. Prepare your eoul for that immortalry. Who cannot gj that far? The moral law, too, is gene ally received. Practice the duties laid down therein. He who docs these things is far on the road to sanctity. Why choke yourself nith li-h bones of difficulty when there is so much good meat to eat? Duty is almost always connected with now. Believe now. Repent now. Do right now. Today is ours, tomorrow is God's. Sin is something to weep over, never to laugh at -whether the sin is ours or another's. 'Tis the most formidable word in language; the most fearful fact inhuman experience. A loubtiiijc Tho-a . Street A Smith's Goot' Newt Little Son "Did it enow like this w'en you was a bov?" Father "I've seen it over my head." Littlo Son (after reflection) "Was you lying down or sittin' up?" The tVrong Flower. retreetA Ö.alth'a Go4 Ntwa.J Little Miss Goldenhatr (proudly) "We is descended from ree Mayflower." Little Miss Freckles (regarding her intently; "Is you sure it wasn't a chrysanthemum?" A tried friend, Dr. Ball's Cough Syrup

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The Former Iteally Dul Have Borne Appreciation of Him. MErrrms, Tenn., Feb. 11. Some time ago the Appeal' Avalanch: contained the following paragraph: '"Marat Halstead etiil has his nerve with him. In his comment on Rlaine'f death, for instance, he .ivs that those who condemned Blaine 'when he was confronted by deadly antagon:sm while epeaker of the bouse did eo upon insufficient evidence.' Yet Murst himself condemned him on that evidence The dear, delightful, bluadeiing old field marshal will now huve to do some more explaining." This brought from Mr. Halstead the follow, ng letter that appears this morning: Ihia paragraph he pecul.ariiiea that auggeit t) n to any a lew words in review. I do MJ that I tasuile.l Klou- at thit tune uoon ioanüicient evidence, and ba 1 hardly maJe the fight aaii at hire until the un Imtanding cams to me that 1 Lad been toe swift in O'odrnnar tion. There wer three republican s iitora, who, at Cincinnati in 176, attacked Biaioe, aod have been regretful ever sir.oe Mr. Jnieph Me. 1.11. Mr. U ohar J mith and ravirir. Aa for inytelf I feel that I Li 1! tint a wrong then. In being so perpend cular I leans 1 Backward. He waa eo p eaaing a mat that I re-isted bia faicibat in qualities tot atrenuouaty lo be quite fair to him. The say ing waa that he was irresistible, an I that itimttlaieii opposition aud animated antagonism. I'erhap the paraJox does not aet.m Ut yoe hi lly irrat onttl or incredible. i aka the Mulligan leit r; when P.iaine hal real them in the house there wre two atories told, without ceaainp, that ior a tim broke the force of his wonderful vindication. One was tl.at be did not read the right prkai;e, and another that tlie ;ni( ortai.t let'i r were nuaaing, I'oth are confeaviona that Maine was wronged by fcn acciera. The mugwumps never ceaned to say i tie miesing lett rs would be supplied. Blaine rau for President. Some craps were acratehed from pigeon nolei, but they weakened the ce SKainnt it aire itiataad of strengthening it. There were no piiaiing letters of the teaat onaequeucr, but his enemies inn ti lied tb eta in their mind. If H aine had been an allege 1 lawyer, forty timsi what he waa charge i with, could have bee a made virtuoua aa "litt." (le waa iuet rudely attached by lawyers aal poet. The latter colored n.iamformntion wiih fancy. The former diator;ed truth professionally. I gave, for a little while, tco uiach credit to the indioiiueota of fancy, aud the arguments of tlia:ruoa. It jour experience o happy that you do not know how it was or is yojrteh? I h ive lovrd Jatnea O. B aine and believed in b in br fifteen years. Ilia ieah to m i a p -tonal loia. it ia a pubbe ini-fortunn. .'-ha 1 an epi'la of error in the eaiunation of ev dene. S ut lema ins to suen.-e when he is in the grave and it in ii my h.. art aud Lead and hand iu ito linn juice? 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