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

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MOftNINS. MARCH 15. 1893-TWELYE PAGES.

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

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Two Tapers for the f rice of One This remarkablv liberal offer is made for a limned tme onlv to secure new subscribers, and is confined to those who are not now taking either The Sentinel or the Journal. SPECIAL TERMS for the Jonrnsl and sevtI other im'T will l e sent to preaeot subcribers of The Sentinel who cut out this alTertisemT.t and end ir, inclosing two one-cent tamp t- Nutiouui Lire Stock and Farm JourBal. Chicago. Remit r-y drift r-n Chicago or New York yo-tal ord-r. re.-ibUred li!tr or express order. Address India a rou s s i: n tin el co. , Itidinnapolis. Ind. Tin- Staff Now I,ws. The Sentinel in this l-ue presents to its readers a compete synopsis of the new i laws of Indiana as enacted Ly the legislature which e'osrd its ses-don Ia?t week. This is not a mere index by tula of the bills passed. Tnat would indicate verv little to those ot:ts;tI of the legislature or to a good many of these inide of it. This fvnorjsis. however, givs ail the provisions ef the new iaws freed fron the Icrai ver biage and gives to the reader a clear and correct im ier-tan ding of the new iegis'a- j tion three months in advance of thepubli- j cation of the act, j Thi? synopais is not s extended as that published two years a?o, for this legislature has not enacted o many or bo important laws as its predeces-or. But it is just a9 accurate nnd complete and will be found of imwer.se value to lawyers and public officials during the three months before tbe act ar-j oiliciady published. Every citizen of Indiana should preserve Lis copy of today's ."?kv;i.n::i.. If the railroads will paint the state this spring there will be such a boom in Indiana after the world s fair is over and foreign visitor have returned to their bomes a was never seen before. Inptwa is likely to cut a prominent figure in the new senate. It is generally Understood that f-enator Vix.i.iiee" will be chni-ir.an of the linance committee nd S nitor I t m ir. of ih committee on pension?. These, promise to be the most important committees in the near future. The chairmanships are placed in thoroughly competent hands. j The republican press is taking great pleasure in the report that the appropriations of the lat conjrei amount to more than a billion of dollars. I'o8ibly they do, but a lare part of them were the direct re--uit of tha repnhlicau legislation of 1S0O and 1SU, an.l all of them were adoptd by a rtpublican t-enate and binned by a republican president. I roin tlii-s time we shall have democratic government for while, at least, and if it does not make a better showinir for economy than the late repub ican andministration we wi.l be wiliinji to accept the republican theory that "thif is a billion dollar country." The movement recently inaugurated in Washington and responded to favorably throughout the country to change the presidential inauguration day from March 4 to April 3U will probably meet the views cf everyone who has had the food or ill fortune of beinz present daring one of those blistering cays of March at the incom in i? of a new administration. All the pleasures of the occasion are padly marred if the weather be disagreeable, and March almost always as unfortunate in producing a pleasant day as any of the winter months. Washington's first inauguration occurred April 3). 1789. Ir seems certain now that President Cleveland will appoint a commission to visit Hawaii to get at the exact facti in regard to the situation there before any further action is taken on the annexation question. This ia the proper coarse to pursue. It is possible there are good reasons why the United States should absorb the island kingdom, and it is pestitle, if not probable, that such a course would be a serious mistake and would odIv aid special interests and involve thie government in endis complication. Nothing is to le lost by delay and tbe pusp eion of a job will be removed by giving the whole subject due consideration. A mitcal benefit club for working pirle has recently been, organized in Chicago, and it seems to include niany admirable features, aitheugh thus far it ia only an experiment. Among the girls receiving benefits ere many employed as domestics, eome from factoriee and others from stores. Many of them are foreigners and facilities are extended them to learn the o?!ish language. Plain sewing is taught an J instruction, given in cutting and fitting garments. The plan of the enterprise ia toDjake it self-supporting or nearly so. The membership is divided into two classes active and associate. More than

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one hundred women are enrolled among j the associate mernnere, paying a fee of 25 cents per month. The working girls j

composing the active membership payonly 5 cents per month. Some of the philanthropic ladies of Indisnapolis mir perhaps gather from ihe foregoing hints that might lead to the establishment of a similar institutioa in Indianapolis. The field here is surely larga enough. There are hundreds of young girls employed in the stores and manufacturing establishments of Indianapolis who would be glad to avail themselves of the privilege of a similar enterprise here. The I.nte legist At tire. In imitation of the fabled swan, the legislature eang it9 sweetest note when it passed tbe motion to adjourn $inr d!?. Thia is no breach of confidence. The people at large knew it before we said it. And yet it has not been an altogether useless body. It may well serve aa a frightful example to future legislatures. It tiecan its session with every opportunity for making a record that would bo a credit to the members ami a source of strength to the democratic party. ltd opportunities have been frittered away, and the party will find the record a load instead of a support. Fight or ten years ago such a record would not have occasioned much surprise, but a new era was inauguarated by the leciilature of 1SS0, a new standard set The legislature of 1S91 diJ not quite equal that of 1S.V but it did much creditable werk, and it was supposed that, when the idea had passed away that the people's party was a formidable organization, and it ws wise to take up its dogmas and abandon those of the democratic party, there wouid be no difficulty ia following on in the paths laid out in 1S9. The failure of the legislature of 180.1 furnishes a most excellent study for the student of governmental science. We believe that in intelligence and ability the members ranked above the amaze, and especially so in the house of representatives. The cause of failure, as it daily manifested itself, was in the organization, or perhaps better, ttie lack of organization. In the hou!e the miet.ka was made of putting Mi. CfLi.or at the head of the wavs and means committee and thereby making him ex-oilicio leader cf the house. Whv tha speaker did this wo do not kn v, but it is commonly rumored that it wa in response to the urgent pleas of prominent politicians who aro erag-'d in an elTort to build up a "machine'' in Indiana democracy, and to "have no further question aboit per cents." Whatevrr the cauee the se ection was most unfortunate, for the very intelligence and ability that could have been made most useful revolted from his leadership. At first it was rather a matter of sport, a mischievous desire to crons Mr. Ci'i.top on account of his pompous and dictatorial etyie, t r.t a.4 the sedsinn prozrtsssed it develtu ed into bitternep?, and thf-re was created a larje and closely knit fa- tion in opposition to the oilicial leadership. This opposition grew into formidable shape on the question et conferring the appointing rower on tbe governor. This measure at tir.t had every appearance ot easy passage. There wa no formidable opposition to it from any source. Kven tho?e who believed that the governor wouid attempt to use the patronage for the t'Urrot-e of building up a personal machiuH took the position that as a principle of government the power outfit to be located in the governor, and urged that it be so located. I5ut there was suddenly a cloud over the bright prospect when the house democrats caucused and, bv a vote of 17 to 2, decided not to return the power. Then bean the fatal mistake of an effort to coerce the majority by an alliance with republicans accompanied by an endeavcrto draw away the caucus majority, one by one, ia order that on the final vote a m ijority of democrats muht be obtained for the measure. This naturtdly increased the bitterness, and it failed to accomplish its purpose, for a majority of the democrats voted against the measure both in tbe final caucus and on the. pa-)-esge of the bill. Oiher matters had been hed back on account of this measure, and when it was finally paef-ed, the house had become so completely d. mora ized that there was no or;auition and no leadership for the ret of the session. The senate was equally the victim of bad organization but of a diflerent character. The lieutenant-governor fell an easy victim to a few prominent politicians who "had interests to look after," and the committees were made up with a view to the radical protection of cor porate interefds, and especially those of railroads. The work was well done for the purpose. At the rime time there was a combine of the hold-over eenatore by which control of the senate was secured and rules adopted that left the new members practically help ess. A number of the hold-over senators were products of the peoples' party craze of 1SD0, and would in all probability never have been nominated but for this. It is also to be remembered that in both houses much of tbe difficulty arose from having too large a msjority. There ia in fact no greater source of danger to a party organization than trie. It begets overconfidence and breeds factional contention. It makes those in control dictatorial, and makes thoee in revolt reckless. It is a source of weakness and not of strength. The work of the legislature is not a topio that will furnish matter for more than one volume. We have repeatedly called the attention of the legislators to the records made by the preceding legislatures and urted them to take up and push to conclusion some work of importance. If they have done so we have as yet been unable to identify the bill. The nearest approach to a law of any real importance is the one for the protection of inventors in building associations, but even thij is not so stringent as it hhoul l be. The remainj der of the acts are largely of a local char acter, and eome of them not of the best character. The estisei. has done what it could t9 stop vicious legislation at every turn, but eome bills have gone through despite its protests. The protests still ptanl. The Sentinel is printed in the interests of democracy and good government every day in the year. Itdoas not sing one eong during campaigns and another between times. It stands for the rihts and the best interests of the people always, and a constantly growing subscription list is gratifying evidence that the people stand by it. It win not apolrzize for bad laws or for the

men who made them, and it will not defend extravagance and waste on the part of democratic officials. From the beginning of the session The Sentinel has warned the legislature of the folly of its course. It has condemned ita errors from the increase of doorkeeper? down to the pieaage of the appropriation bill. It has pleaded for harmony of action and adherence to the plain principles of propriety and rirfht. It stands cow in a position to appeal to the people of Indiana if it has failed of its duty from first to last. It has gone thronen its medicine box ana tried every known remedy from sugarcoated pills to lunar caustie in the effort to secure a legislative session creditable to the democratic party aud of benefit to the people of the state. It has conscientiously endeavored to place responsibility in every instance exactly where it belongs. It cannot truthfully say that it is paused with the result, but it feela that no reproach can be laid at its door. tYtiiniii 1'utillc l-'avor. A few davs ago The Sentinel took the trouble to explain to the Washington W why it was that Mr. Cleveland was the object of what the I'utt was pleased to term idol worship. We do not desire to assume the credit of having converted our contemporary to a right view of the mstter, but it adopts our ideas very fully in the following statement of the reasons of the pheuomenal public confidence in the

man: It waa an abiding trust in hit personal iiiteuriiy, iu his aturdinesa of will, in the pt-riect patriotism of his motives, in the resoluteness of his devotion to the public welfare, that, supplemented bv hie representative character an an advocate of who esome reforms in the revenue and his eyetematic independence of uiteranco and action, assured his candidacy and made certain bis election. This is true, bul it is no more true than is the Wi statement of the manner in which this confidence was created. Cornin as it d es from a paper that has never been friendly to Mr. Cleveland and that has always had a sneer for any profession of regard for political honesty, it has the force of the testimony of au unwilling witness: He entered the public service at Washngton without any special training in the schoo. s from which statesmen are commonly euipoged to graduate, vet in the conduct oi national afl.iirs exhibited from the outet edatesujaniike attributes of a high order. it ai never claimed for him that he possrsed in conspicuous measure tho qualities ot popular leadership, yet, as no man before him had doue, lie developed with his other growth the faculty of swaying a great party at his will. He was never an orator of captivating e'oquente, yet is gified with a coirency of speech that on more than one occasion has compelled a hearing from even deaf an t unwihir.g ears. There is .lttle mngnetim in his temperament as the term ia ordinarily understood, et time und again the democratic party has yielded to the resistless spell cf in personality. He remained at the rear in comparative seclusion during the greater part'of the late udnunistrHtion. y-t ltier wnsalwavs a potent suggestion of his presunce at the front. He was never a po'itician, a9 politicians are usually defined; he held the po itical machine in contempt; lie discarded old political methods; he made himself obnoxious to a lar'e aud powerful wing of his own party ; yet when came the final tet ot strength, and without effort on his part that avorud of partisan agirreseiveness, he thrice captured a nomination and twice an election to the highest office in the gut of any people. We doubt that anything more compli mentary to Mr. Cleveland than this has ever been said by his most ardent admirers, but what the Vr does not appear to understand, and what the average politician neeinf incapable of understanding, is that lie was successful not despite these things, but on account of them. Pleasing oratory, personal magnetism and aki 1 in political manipulation never won public confidence for any man. There is nothing in them on which to base confidence. They may draw, but they cannot hold. Men "joy pleasing oratory, but it does not convince. They enjoy it as they enjoy music. The su bject and the sentiment are comparatively unimportant. True oratory is that which convicts which gains the purpose of the speaker. Personal magnetism may be poseBee i in a large measure, and its pojsessor despised for having nothing more. Skill in political manipulation tnds to repu ee rather than to invite confidence. We give Mr. Cleveland credit for having learned many years azo the simple truth that the wisest thiug au oificeholder can do is to perform honestly and faithfully the duties that are entrusted to him. This is a necessary result of free government. The masses of the people have no direct interest in politics except the proper administration of government. They will never discard an administration that gives them this, except undttr the influence of mistake of some kind, and then they will be glad enough to get it back again. If politicians wou d be successful they should lay aside the ordinary political armor of fa se pretense and actually do something for the public welfare. Tnis will be a most startling recommendation to man of them, but it is really worth trying. As a means of attaining public favor it is superior to pleasing eloquence or personal msgnetiem, or the wire-puller' skill. Now lo the Kncampnient. It is almost beyond comprehension why there should be any hesitancy about the council's pswsingthe ordinance for the special levy for tbe grand army encampment. Fifty years ago a proposition of the kind might have been of questionable propriety, but Indianapolis is a city now, and ought to be able to maintain the dignity of a city. These veterans of the war have been invited hereby the state and the citv. They have accepted the invitation. The invitation and the acceptance carry with them the necesaary implication that suitable entertainment will be provided. If not provided, there would be a breach of faith and almost necessarily an abandonment of the entire enterprise. In consequence, Indianapolis would be left in a position that would bring for it the contempt of the entire country. Kven if there had been any mistako in making the invitation, snd we do not think there was, it ia too late to let the matter drop now. The state has been disgraced sufficiently by refusing to make any extension of hospitality. Indianapolis ciainot afford to a Id to it. There has been no legitimate argu

ment of any kind advance against the tax. The ta k that it is an improper use of the taxing power is rendered utterly absured by the fact that eimiliar uses are

constantly made and without opposition or comment. Such an objection miht as reasonably be made every time a public building is decorated in honor of some great event or draped with emblems of mourning on occasion of the death of some great man. There is no provision in constitution or laws that cities, or counties, or ßtates shall, be empowered to rejoice or to mourn. There is no provision that officials may use the money raised by taxation for other purposes to pay for these emblems or for putting them in place. It is simply an exercise of power that is carried by implication and that ia backed by a public sentiment of propriety. The put. lie would quickly condemn any official who took the hidebound view of public .expenditure on euch occasions. We do not champion waste and extravagance, but W6 do say that there are hundreds of occasions on which a pubdc regard for decency and for the manifestation ol proper feeling demands that there should be such expenditures. They have always been made. They will alwars be made. They should be made on proper occasions, and nothing but hypocrisy or the narrowest style of bigotry would withhold them on this occasion. There can be no question in the mind ot any patriotic American that the veterans of the civil war deserve the gratitude and affection of the American people, and a gratitude and atlection that is not ready to extend to them the co union decencies of life is not one that is calculated to give the rising generation a wholesome idea of patriotism. Further, it is to be remembered that this encampment wi.l be one of great benefit to the city of Indisnapo'is if successfully carried through. Thia is a comparatively young city. It ha great natural advantages. It is to the interest of all of us to bring here people of capital, people of influence, people of position. This is the year of tbe great exposition at the neighboring city of Chicago. Thousands of people will come to the encampment because they are coming to the exposition, and thousands who are at the exposition will be drawn to Indianapolis by the existence of the encampment. We want these people to come. We want them to see oar city for themselves and know its advantages. We wnnt them to return to their homes and carrv with them the reporte of our progress, of the beauty of our city, of the desirability of the place es a location for homes and for business. This is an advertising chanco of a century. To neglect it would be an act of fo ly that would injure ever' man in Indianapolis, whether he be engaged in conducting a business or in working Lr wages. Our growth is something that is of advantage to ail, and everything that tends to promote it should receive hearty and generous support. l'airit Her Up. Indiana ought to be freshly painted this spring. Not a deep crimson, but something or atiytting neat and tasty. The paint ought to be applied early and thoroughly and the state would reap a rich harvest from the investment. This may seem lue a cranky notion, but it isn't. It is a cold, plain, business proposition of dollars and cents. Here are the facts; the conclusion is irresistible: No other state in the onion, with the exception of Illinois, will see . fio many of the visitors to the wor d's fair as Indiana. And the portion of Plinois eeen by fivesixths of the visitors to the fair will be bounded by the city limits of Chicago. Indiana is in a much better position to profit by the fair than her western neighbor. It is eafs to pay that S" per cent, of the visitors to the world's fair will pass through Indiana, pa;1 g nnywhero from six to sixteen hours in traversing her territory. It ought to be apparent that the state wou d profit by p'ltting on her best bib and tucker for inepcction of these millions of strunzer?. If the Indiana people worili make an early and libera: investment in fresh paint and distribute it judicious'y along the railroads applied to fences aud farm buildings and town houses, and wherever a rusty or eetdy appearance is now given such an impression would be made on travelers as would boom immigration and investment most amazimrly. There ought to be encugh business enterprise and public spirit in the citizens of Indiana to take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity. A clean, fresh look given to the pnrface of the state during the coming eummer would be worth as much as the diecovery of natural gas. Therefore, paint Per up ET CETERA. Asrmx C. Beckwitft, the new democratic senator from Wyoming, is a methodist deacon. If you want to pronounce the surname of Richard Olney, who is to be Mr. Cleveland's attorney-general, as he does himself, drop out the "1." Gen. Dacvet H.Macrat, one of Beauregard's school mates and a fellow soldier in the Mexican war, lives in Houston. Tex. He is one of the few confederate msjor-generals of renown who survive, and is still a stout and rugged man. There was a preponderance of important little men at the launch of the Indiana. Besides President Harrison, the Camp brothers, who built the vessel and who have $;V0,00) in naval contracts to perform, were conspicuous for their diminutive physique. Tiioma8 O'Bhien, who some years ago swindled a man in Albany out of several thousand dollars and was afterward, sent to Dannemora prison for ten years, but mysteriously escaped, has recently been discovered at ttuenos Ayres, where he ia "moving in the best society." The king of biam is not a man of much physical prowess. He is less than five feet in hight and weighs 100 pounds. He speaks Burmese, biamese, French. German and English. He rises at 5 o'clock in the morning, leads an industrious, life and innista on his relatives doing hard work in the service of the government iustead of spending their days in id eness. Bkavhegard'h death narrows down the list of prominent confederate officers now surviving; but the statement of a southern paper that Gen. E. Kirby Smith is the only conspicuou military leider of tbe lost cause who is left is not quite correct. Gen. Joseph K. Johnston was still alive at last account. After retiring from the office of cotnmisbionsr of railroads, to which he was appointed by Mr. Clara

land, he went to practice law in Baltimore. Gen. S nith is eeventy years or more of ag. and he is a pro essor of mathematics at Sewanee, Tenn. When Senator Gibson met Afllai Steveneon In Washington the other day the next vice-president said to him: "Well, Gibson, you are a good prophet. Here I am. as you predicted." This had reference to a remark Senator Gil sn made in Chicsgo during the convention to the effect that Mr. Stevenson wouid return to Washington March 4 as the democratic vicopres dent. One of the interesting features of the suit of the bail-player Pickett against the Baltimore club was the great scientific and technical knowledge of the game displayed by Gen. John Berry. In Iiis testimony for the defense he said that be had been present at nearly every base ball game plaved in Baltimore for ten yeara past, and he was decidedly of the opinion that Pickett, as second baseman, "did not cover tncu?h territory" and "was uncertain on ground bal e." The smallest Eoldier in France ia Louis Bernadat of Luret, who is only two feet four inches in heighL He is a dwart with a slight mustache. When he presented himself to draw his number out of the con-cription urn it was discovered that bis head did not reach to the top of the table on which the urn was placed, so a gendarme be d him up by the collar to enable h;m to put his hand in the urn. Reviewing the post-official careers of the presidents of the United States, a Washington writer notes that eix men Washington, Jefferson, Ma lison, Jackson, Johnson and Haven became planters or farmers upon retiring from public life; that five Van Buren, Polk, Fil more. Pierce and Grant traveled extensive ly at the close of their oilicial careers; and that four Adams. Pierce, Buchanan and Hayes sooner or later became recluses. Tins illustration of the pluck of Admiral Sir Arthnr Cumming, lately deceased, is given by a London paper: When a lieutenant on the South American station, half a century ago, he boarded a slaver, and, through his boatman losing hold of that vessel, he found himself unsupported on board a ship the deck of which was crowded with hostile Spaniards. Without hesitaiion hr shot the helmsman, seized the wheel, ran the slaver up in the wind, and, pistol in hand, kept the entire crew nt bay until his boat was once more alongside.

TO TEST A LAW. Superintendent Vörie Objects to the Act Kelatin to-littered on S lio.l 1 und. State Superintendent of Schools Harvey D. Vöries is preparing to test the constitutionality of an amendment to the school laws passed duriog the recent session of tbe general asenib y and signed by the Kovernor. The bid was introduced by Representative Heagy, and provides for the reduction of the interest on school funds from S to t per cent, per annum. It a eels 1 aus already made as well as uture loans, and Mr. Vor. es believes it to be unconstitutional in that it impairs the obligation of contracts. The bid as parsed is as follows: Sec. 1. The principal of all moneys, whether belonging to th commou school fund or to the concressionid towtmtup ichnnl fund, received into the county treasury shall be loaned at 6 per cent, per annum, payable annually in advance, and the interest paid out as prescribed by the school law of this state, and not otherwise; and any judgment upon anr note or mortgage for any part of aaid fund shall bear 6 per cent, interest iron) the dnte (hereof tdl the stmeiipttid; and net greater rale of intereat than ia hrin specified shall be exacted or received upon any loan heretofore mart; hut all loans heretofore ma fe at the rate of 8 per cent, ptr aiiti'iro hüll, irom and after tbe taking ctlect of tliis sot, draw 6 per cent, per annum. It is alleged that the bill was passed in the interest of persons holding loans and who wanted the rate of interest reduced to o" par cent. '"THE SENTINEL" AD LEGISLATURE. Madison Herald dem. J Great ideas of economy hare some of the senators. '1 hey deprive the voters oi the state of authentic) information regarding tickets at el. ctiori lime because it ootta too much to inform them, and in tbe game breadt vote lio kkeepers -'2S per dty for prnv ng that the state owes Warden Patten a considerable sum of money. Tim is reform witli a h c K and a compreiiensire wink. in fiannfol s rntin'l. There are a number of jack-leg lawyers in thn senate who are much better fitted for saw ing wood end mnulintr rails than for legisltttin for a great state like Indiana. Th?-ir constituents should bear this in mind and see that they fo'low in the intnre what the God of nature has best qualified them for. f Kokomi (iazptte-Trlbune rep.l The reading public is familiar with the manner in which The Sentinel has been fulminating nga'nst the Indiana legis atnre now happily and eafely deceneed. Ibis oracle of democracy has raked the democratic iaw-tr.akera fore and aft and hel l eotnr of the most prominent of its party leaders up to ridicule and ecorn. Kvansvllle Journal rep.l The Indianapolis Sentinel, the democratic stato organ. sa that "there are probably more cases of nepotism in the distribution of patronage in the present house of representatives of Indiana than there ever has been before." This is an important and significant confession. fRirhmond Item Ind. Even The Indianapolis Sentinel is criticising Governor Matthews for his cowardly evasion of responsibility in permuting the McHugh municipal bill to become a law without any action thereon. Tipton AdTanoe.l The Indianapolis Sentinel expreese? the views of the Adnca!r on the enormous expenses of circuit courts. A Yonthfn.1 Climber lead. London Daily News. A youth of eighteen was frozen to death on Sunday on the Rax, the most dangerous roint of the Setnmering mountain. Our Vienna correppondent states that he was one of ft party of tourists, consisting origina ly of four, but the two elder men turned back, leaving the younger onee to climb a'one. To save his employers eon, who is weakly, the youth took all the trouble upon himself, cut steps and dragged his companion forwnrd. When thev sat down exhausted he went to sleep ami never woke aain. The other proceeded a little far; her and was found prostrate but alive. llrr Favorit Attitude. liton Transcript. J In the Street Car: Gentleman (entering) "Will you kindly get up and give me your seat?" Lady "What do yon mean bv addressing me in that manner, eir?" i lnnOmin " When 1 olfured vou a seat last evening you said you preferred to stand. As I tk you for a lady of your word, I wid accommodate you bv occupy ing your seat nunu you osoumo your iavur ite attitude." Dividend nt the Start. Melanges Overheard at a email club in Paris "Who will lend me a couple of louis? I'll pay him one bac!; at once. Chapced hands healed by Salvation Oil, 2o cents.

oSUNDAY THOUGHTS! ON MORALS MANNERS

IT CTKROTMA.Ä. An evel that needs nowadays to be watched and restrained more than any other is gambling. Close observers agree, and tha police reports confirm the opinion, that this is a growing sin, and one which infects alt classes. There are many causes, one of the chief of these hednz the prominence given to racing, not as a trial of speed (iu that there is little harm), but as a means of betting. The word "bet" finds a place in ail life on all occasions. The very divine enforces his views upon theology, often, by saying: "I'll bet you it ia so!" Let Christians preach and practice the gospel of quid pro quo. The basis of nli honest business is an exchange of evuivalents. Christianity Is not only a good faith to live by, 'tis a magnificent creed to die by. "Ask the death-beds, they can tell." The Epicurean philosophy, which says live for time and sense, and the stoic philosophy, which says brace yourself and meet care and sorrow and death with a marble bow both are aa powerless in the way of comfort as moon ben um dancing on a bed of ice are in the way of heat. "According to certain critics who tender their services as our guides in bibical matters," remarks Mr. Gladstone, ("The Impregnate Rock," p. 180. "Israel lived on for 900 years from the exodus, and transmitted a peculiar faith. law, ritual and nationality without any legislative or ritualistic or institutional system to uphold any one of them. This verv startling proposition appears to one to do Tioleuce to reason no less glaringly than anv of the assertions ventured hv theologians in the days of their pride and power. i Iceland there are 73,000 people. Poitical equality prevails even woman sudrage. 'Tis said that there is not in all Iceland an il. iterate person over the age of seven years. Tbre are no police, no prisons, no thieves, no pleutocra'.s, no paupers a plain, temperate, chate, welleducated people. Why not annex Ice land? It might serve for an example only that ecu of an example is Lever catching. Temp'ation is like a breae over a threshing floor: it tests and winnows us or if we are a I chad takes Ua- out of the wav. In the interesting book entitled "Tharaoh, Fellahs and Explorers" Mrs. Amelia B. Edwards (who is an Egvp'ologist of the first rank) tives an entertaining account of ancient Egyptian notions of immortality. Man, emerging from barbarism, is like anintelligent child, full oi curios. ty about himseiL He is puzzled bv the mysterv ot Iiis own exteilence. and according to his limit of experience he seeks to account forthat mvetery. Now the ancient inhab itants of the Nile valley accounted for themselves in a very elaborate and philosophical fashion. They con ceived of tnan as a com posite being, consisting of at least six parts, viz: a body, a soul, an intelligence, a shadow, a name and another tdemtnt called in Egyptian Ka. The co-operation of these six parts as one harmonious whole constitutes the hvingjman. But they were dissociated by death, and could be reunited only after a long probation. When so reunited it was forever. Meanwhi e, being dead, the body lay inert in the tomb, tbe soul periormed its pious pilgrimage through a drenm haunted the valley of shades; the intelligence, freed from mortui incumbrance, wandered through space, tho shadow and the name awaited the return of the s ul when its pilgrimage should be accompl.shed, aud the Ka dwelt with the mummy iu the Bepulchre. Miss J.dwa da considers this K a to re the life principle in man. IWing vi'al, it required nourishment, and hence it was a matter of dailv praver among the Egyp tians that the Ivhs of thirdear departed might be provided with a series ot good equtire meals. Being divine the Ka was immortal, and around tins the disjecta membra should by and by reunite. Miss Ed wards suggests that this Egyptian word Ka it none other than the liebrew word Khai, meaning "life." "It may be." she savs, "that tbe Greeks borrowed ther 'vital park.' as thev borrowed so much eise, from the Egyptians. At anv rate the Hebrews (who carried awav oat of Egypt even more intellectual spoi.s than spoils ot silver, gold and raiment) were indebted to their tnk.naters for their doctrine of the Khai cr lite. Thev, in fact, borrowed ziot only the idea, but the very word." The century of missions just closed has witnessed a revolution in morals and manners more surprising than that other revolution wrought in the material sphere by the inventions and discoveries of the nineteenth century. A hundred years back there were but two or three missionary societies in all Christendom ; today there are over one hundred such societies a new one for each year in Ilm century whose representatives are preaching tho gospel to every nation under heaven. Then, were there less than liity versions of the bible the entire result of bibical translation since the days of the the apostles, now ther are 2SO languages in which the word of God has been translated, and the whole bible is accessible to nine tenths of the population of the globe. Then, there were no women's missionary agencies; now there are thirty such organizations in America alone, which contribute nearly $-,000,000 per anuum for the oread of the gospel. Then most of the heathen nations were inaccessible; now almost every door stands open. The watchword of the past century has been opportunity; that of the century just opening should be importunity. 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them out to others. A week of rain an avalanche of unexpected guests; even an unbecoming bonnet, have no power to di-turh the deep ca m of her soul. It is she who conquers the grim ole unc e and the dvspept c aunt. The cross est baby reaches out its arms to her and il comforted. U:d people and strat.gers always ask the way of her in the crowdei street. Her centle spirit 1i-1ds to see the reason for every poor siau r's mi-step and condemns e ry fuU. She migiit not serve with acceptance on th judge's bench, but she ii a very agreeab.e person lo know. The evange'ical Christians of the United Sta'es are estimated to be possessed of SI 3.0 J.OJd.OJO. How much of it is consecrated? The German evangelical church has jn-t secured a site in the Holy city for a church. It soems that we owe the double-headed eagle, which is on the Russian arms, to the Hittite. Count d'Alviel.a, in his learned work cn 'Tiij Migration of Symbols." teils us it first appears on some ilittite tiu ct tires at Evu in Phrygia. To di-cover truth is the Lest happiness of the iiiuivhinal ; to communicate it is the chief b esediiess Lw ctn be slow upon society. T'-TtiMit'l. How many .ay up riches which they never en joy to provide for contingencies that never happen, to prevent trouble that never comes. Jat. The church too often errs still in seeking a glory too external. It cannot compete with the world in what is distinctively nie world' ei.irv. liven S lomoo'i tealpie was far outdone by the go.deu house of Nero. Mircvs 7W, I think- it is the going to God with out every want that he loves. Hence, th6 ot'tener we go the belter we please him, for the. to us. seeming y small things dc but demonstrate the mo-e urelv our entire reliance upon him. and this trust endrarn u to him. V? J'urt-'r. 'Tis an essential thing for the Christian every a oltn to shut the wo-li out and be alon with Go 1. Jw Stalker. Even in our outward occupations let as be more occup.ed with God than with all else. T do them well in his presence and ftirh:s eak. Ff;!o)i. Prayer is the door forever open between heaven and earth. Sooner than, sound cau reach a humrtri . ar through tuis lower atmosphere the longing desire of the spirit ris.s to the heart of Go I. Wnetiier we believe it or not, w are living in an invi-ihle world where our wi-'ne-ar- understood b lord our worjj ar tpken. -'" Istrcum. 'Tis not enough that we profess Christianity we must posse.-s it. Carlos Cease from this antc-dating of your experi n-e. SuthVw nt to today are the duties of today. Don't waste life in doubts and tears; speui vourseif on the work before von, weil aäured that the right performance of the hour'e duties will be the beet preparation for the hours or ages which follow it. 'Ti- the measure of a man Lis apprehension of a day. EnterWe know not exactly what the least degree of obedience is ihat w.l. bring a man to heaven, but thi we tnav be quite sure of, that he who amis no hi-'her than the lowest will ia 1 fall short of that, and that he who goes farthest beyond it will be most ti'esed. John A''-'.. Knowledge is tne Lill which few can hope to cluub; duty is the path that all lnav travel. Mmi 'i..

At a recent stato convention of the Y. M. C. A. th present status was anthontatively given as in contrast with the pat: In lSi;j thure was in tfie United States 6ixty-three associations, 1 2.4' S members, with property valued at ?' 0.000, and with libraries aggregating 34,00 volumes. Today there are 1,372 associations, '-0.000 members, with property valued at 12,j Hi ,'. and with libraries aggregating j 47-'. 00 volumes. The Y. Al. C A. building, not only in j this city, but throughout the union, are i furnished, as everv hily knows, fftih apI pliances or physical, intellectual, social ! and re igions purposes. The- work done j in tt.em and through them for young men ' is of incalculable value. They atlord a , saf and pleasant rai ying p'.no both day ' tuid night. Good co i patiiocshiti is as ; eured. iixce lent boarding i laces and . busi:ies opportun ties are found for those i in need oi either, t iod biess the Y. M. C. ; A. Th president of the United societies of ! Christian endeavor has just been in Japan, j While there he appointed the Rev. T. j Harada. an tloqu. nt and competent J native pastor, to look after the interests ! of the Y. P. S. C. E. in Jaoaa growing ! rat i ily, iike everything else iu that j happy island, until such time as an i accredited representative hall be elected 1 bv the United societies of Japan. 'Tis thought both in America and in Japan that the eel-ction is an excellent one Mr. Harada Mas etiucated in the famous i Io-hisha oi Kyoto, and a'so in our best I American schoo, s, and is equally weil- ! known both here und there. Triends in a houe if they be o the right ! kino are a benediction. They brehk up ! theroutitie. They introduce new thoughts, ! new expressions, new ways of looking at j things, new manners To children their ! presence is olten a real step in education, j A family living wholly wkhiii itself grows j narrow. I l'oti I of ri-hi'it;. ". Y. W.ek'y Mr. Goo. '.son "So you worked for Mr. Cleveland one summer? He is very fond of iieb'ng, 1 believe." Patrick "Fond of tishin'. is it? Wull Oi'll tell ye. P'e mo.ud th' time he wax furst uomynatei?" 'I remember it." Wull. nor, Oi whz on th' foorce thin, an me bate waz near his house. I'hwin Oi heard th' news Oi ru-he l up to 'im an' says Oi, Hooray ! We've noniynated ye fur president, says O;. 'Wull y z accipt?' says Oi. Oi wu I,' nays he. 'if there's good lishin' in th Potomac' " Too Tame. fHn-per' W.ckljr.l Visitor "Pon't you think it possible that a pardon may be procured for the poor man? His o.'!en-e was not great, and further confinement will ki 1 bun." Warden "Fin afraid it is impossible. The crime he committed was not sufficiently a'rocious to iuterest the public in his case. Who can forgot Dr. Bull's Cough SyrnpT m M r I. i 3 ft F V1 k VtH