Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1893 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1893 TWELVE PAGES

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BY THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. S. E. MORSS, President. Ilster J at tie Foitoftic at Iniltanapolia aa second lass natter. TKIIMS I'EIt YEARi t Jnjrte copT (InYariaMy In Adrance.) t OO IV c V tl ui err a Ts to N-ar in mind and neloct thlr c vn state paper when they come to Uke aubscr'pl.rr.rand Du'oup cluhc .A pruts leaking up flubs wml for anr Information tenrtd. AddiTllE 1SL1A. PdUS SENTINEL Indianapolis. Jnd. TWELVE PAGES. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1S93. Several large gaa wells have been recently drilled at various points in tba great gas belt of Indiana, and, notwithstanding the unusually cold winter that we experienced, the precious fluid eeems to be plentiful. Manufacturers neeed not hesitate to coma to Indiana through any iear tnat the gas will not hold out. The world's fair management has done a great many cheeky and outrageous things, but it has capped the climax by giving a monopoly of the water-front dockage, and therefore of the water transportation to and from Jackson park, to a f yndicate which pays a percentage oi the profits. The lake front was granted by an ordinance of the city of Chicago to be tised for exposition purposes, and there Certainly could be no worse use for it than this of cutting off competition in water transportation. They might as justifiably give some hackdrivers' syndicate a monopoly of the land approaches to the fair. Everything was going along smoothly with the financial interests of the country tin til this new administration came into power. The great mistake was ma J a last November by the voters of the country. $Iuncie Neva, Oh, yea. Very smoothly. The gold Was sliding out of the treasury at the rate f about $13,000.000 per month. The rest of the money was going with it. Secretary Jooster introduced a new system of bookkeeping, and transferred trust funds to the credit of the government in order to avoid the appearance of a deficit. Bonds were printed and preparations made to Bell them. Everything was going smoothly, but it was going in the wrong direction. Kowahalt is called. It may not be so Smooth, but it is wholesome. Referring to the confidence that the great mass of the people of the United States has in Mr. Cleveland, the Louisville 1'od says: "In the midstfof what amounts to almost a financial, crisis; with the ablest financiers wagging their heads and pouring forth the most dolorous prophecies with tba sacred myth of the gold reserve inTaded; with a combination of Wall-&t. gamblers endeavoring to control the financial policy of the country in order to make money for thempelves, he etands resolute, and by his single word restores public conlidence. It is this public confidence in Grover Cleveland that made him absolutely unbeatable, in spite of all sorts of political combination?, in Chicago lagt June. It is this public confidence that made the machinery and the money of the republican campaign go down before his triumphal car as grain before the reaper. It is the fact that this public contldence is deserved that makes President Cleveland the mo:t wonderful man of his age." The Columbian bell, which will be cast next month in Troy, N. Y.. will be a most wonderful bell. Valuable relics recalling important events of our national history will be cast into the bell. It will weigh 15.C0Q poundd and will cost $0,500. Hare coins, old Ewords, silver goblets and gold pens that ware used in signing documents will be used. A link of the watch-chain worn by President Lincoln at the time of his assassination, a spoon belonging to John C. Calhoun, flints taken from the room in which Thomas Jeffkk-ov wrote the declaration of independence, and souvenirs of Wasiiingto.v, Hamilton, Gen. Schuyler and other great men are included among the most valuable relics. Two hundred packages, each one representing from one to fifty contributions, bare been received. Will Indiana and Indianapolis contribnte something? Have not the citizens of tba great Indiana commonwealth something yaluabltf in connection with the history of the state that can be used to make up the great bell? If so, send it to the Meceely bell foundry, Troy, N. Y., promptly. "Will it be eafe to visit Chicago this year? is a question that many people are asking today. After the report came from London that an investigation had besn made of Chicago drinking water, and that the result of the inquiry had not been favorable, a great outcry began at once all over the country in condemnation of the water supply of the lake city. The editor of the Rniew of Ii Uirg in the forthcoming May number goes into an extensive discussion of the magnitude and importance of the Columbian exposition and in relation to the water subject says: You are extremely fortunate if you ara drinking as pure water at home as Chicago people enjoy every day. The Chicago supply is one of the amplest, purest and beet in the world. Nineteen-twentietha of the visitors to the world's fair who will Use the ordinary an filtered water that the city furnishes will be drinking a purer and more wholesome beverage than can be bad. without the most careful domestio filtration, in their own towns and cities. As to eountry wells, not one in hfty budplie water aa pure as flows througn Chicago's hydrants. Thin is not a reckless assertion. It is tha plain truth. The editor also compliments the police and cab service of Chicago and all the other arrangements made for the accommodation of visitors. "In short," he conclude, "the reports adverse to tha ability of Chicago to take decent care of her guests In all respects have for the most part been idle vaporiogs. One expects to meet some annoyances on any occasion that brings together large masses of people. But it may be said with some assurance that never were preparations for a great gathering so adequate, all things considered, as they wilt prove to be at Chicago in There is always a class of people who will be in trouble no matter where tbey go. and among this class are curious; pruwJsrs wh.o want to see the dark and

seamy side of city life. If such people get into trouble the advice given Grctchni by is apropos viz: -"If Grctchen falls into de water she will have to swim:" Uepeal the Sherman Law. It is evident that the gold scare is over. The invasion of the "reserve" hag had no effect on tha country, notwithstanding tha efforts of the Wall-st bears to utilize it. Stocks have taken an upward tendency. Trade is eood everywhere. Business is being done on a safe basis. There will be a great influx of money to this country on account of the world's fair, and much less money will be 6pent abroad by Americans than usual. The preeident hag announced hia intention to maintain specie payments at all hazards. The country's credit is unlimited. If it desires to issue bonds it can have SlOO.OuO,000, 500,000.000 or 1,000.000.000 in gold when it wants it. Indeed, it is evident from the action of the New York bankers that the purpoee of this pressure on the national treasury was to force it to issue bonds. The country at large apparently understands that fact, and resents the effort of Wall-st. to play at battledore and shuttle-cock with the national currency. The patriotism of the country will back the administration in its determined resistance of these efforts of tha moneybags. The scare is ended, so far as it ever existed. The bluff has been played for all it is worth, and it has failed. There is a lesson to be learned from the occurrence. It is that it is dangerous to let the financial affairs of the country get into a condition where the moneyed interests can exercise any control over them. They will not hesitate to use their power whenever they think they can gain any advantage by it. Tha country was almost put in such a condition. One year less than one year more of republican control would have sufficed to do it. We have already called attention to the eSect of republican extravagance and republican tariff legislation in crippling the national treasury. There was a still mora potent, more vicious and more thoroughly repulican agency. It was the Sherman Bilver law. From the first The Sentinel has denounced this law as a fraud, a juggle, a partisan monstrosity, an illogical piece of class legislation, a pretended compromise in which reason and principle were absolutely deGed. It was claimed to be an el fort to maintain the intrinsic value of eilver, but, as we havo repeatedly demonstrated, its necessary result would bo to depreciate silver. It demonetizes silver. It makes it a mere commodity. It adopts the absurd "subtreasury" scheme of the people's party, stores silver bullion ic warehouses and issues paper money on that bullion as security. No paper money should ever be issued on any security but the credit of the government. No nation can afford to do a pawn-broking business. The Sentinel has insisted from the first that this iaw was enacted by John Siikkm an and his colleagues for the express purpose of forcing the country into the abandonment of silver money. It is in line with their actiou ever since 1S7. They evidently intended to bring about a crisis in which silver coinage could be entirely abandoned under the plea of necessity. So long as Sheum.yx and his colleagues controlled the government we steadily opposed any repeal of the Sherman bill until they were ready to replaco it by a proper measure. It was not safe to let them get absolute control of the currency legislation. But now the situation is changed. The agents of Wallet, have been scourged out of the temple. The administration has declared its unalterable purpose to maintain tha parity of gold and silver at present coinage ratios. Congress is safely democratic in both branches. The only.danger to equality of gold and silver now lies in the manipulations of the Wall-st. people outside of politics. Under these circumstances it is plain that the wise thing is to take away from the moneyed interests the power they now have to deposit silver bars, draw coin certificates on them, and draw gold on these coin certificates. This tremendous power, ingeniously deviled by Sherman, permits them constantly to hamper tha government and iuterfere with its policy of maintaining the equality of tho two metals. It must be taken from them. The banker must have no more control over the currency than the farmer or tha mechanic. Tha Sherman law must be repealed, and it must be repealed at the earliest opportunity. With this relic of republicanism disposed of eilver will at once advance toward its normal price, and the imaginary difficulties of the silver question will vanish. The wisdom, tha patriotism and the statesmanship of the democratic party can be t rusted to give tha country a perfectly sound and stable currency, in which gold and Bilver shall maintain their ancient relations. After tba events of tha last two weeks we think the people are perfectly willing and ready to trust to the financial wisdom and ability of the administration. Certainly tha democratic party is, and it will not hesitate to take from the Wall-st. money kings the club with which they have been threatening the country. ' Let the Sherman law be repealed. More Trouble. The soldiers' monument is having a very bard struggle to learn what it was built for. The latest complication arises from a letter of Col. Lilly, stating that inasmuch as tha G. A. Ii. has repudiated the monument, the unveiling of the Indiana statue on the monument would not ba a proper part of the entertainment of the G. A. R. by the city. This seems to us a very just conclusion, but Col. Lilly further says that, in the effort to carry out the original orogrsm. tha committee will

endeavor to have the Indiana soldiers assemble by regiments "for the grand march on Thursday, Sept 7, with the militia and Mexican soldiers in position as already assigned them." This might possibly work, but we are inclined to believe it will not. As we understand the situation the G. A. K. objects because the Mexican war is recognized on the monument. If we are rightly informed as to the haughty and war-like spirit of the Mexican veterans, they will have nothing to do with the G. A. It. on this or any other occasion. What, then, is to be done? The only soldiers that can be relied on to take part in the ceremonies are the state miiitia. These cannot escape. Tbey can be ordered out, and will have to attend or be court-martialed. It strikes us that this will be sufficient military force for all practical purposes, and then there will be more room left for the people who want to hear the addresses and Fee the ceremonies. If there is anything that makes these public affairs unenjoyable, it is tha crowd that prevents one from hearing or seeing what goes on. And military proCessions always take up more room than anything else. On the whole we think it would be well to induce Col. Siwhr, or some other prominent kicker, to get up an excursion to Broad Ripple on Sept, 7 and get as many of the G. A. It. as possible out of the city. This will give the people of Indiana, and the militia, an opportunity to dedicate their monument in a peaceable and comfortable style. Of course The Sentinel must decline to attend tbe ceremonies unless the dates 17'Jti and 1S11 are added.

The Spirit of Liberty. The .Liberty bell demonstration is through' with. It was very successful, very pretty, very entertaining, probably, to the great mass of those who took part in it. Let us now confer on this occasion a sacred uniqueness by seeing that nothing exactly similar to it occurs in Indianapolis again. Its wisdom may be somewhat questioned from a hygienic standpoint. It may not have been very sensible to keep Email children standing or marching on tho streets lor two hours or more. That is not very material. They were not obliged to go. Their parents were not obliged to send them. There was no assault on liberty in this. If they suffer from overtaxing their powers they and their parents endure the consaquences. Itrf wisdom may be questioned from an iconoclastic standpoint. Object lesions are probably beneficial to a certain extent, but there is some danger of overdoing them. Those who have heard Mr. Kiley'h dissertation oh tho peanut will understand this. When this method of instruction drifts into the idolatry of objects that are symbols it sometimes becomes more than absurd. There appears to be a large class of people in the United States today who imagine that the removal of the national Hag, bv the national government, from a place where it had been displayed improperly and without authority, is a sort of treason. Whenever people are made to believe that a flag id greater than the government it represents they are deceived and injured. A private ship cannot protect itself by flying the flag of any nation. The confusion of a symbol with tbe principle for which it stands is hurtful. It is a weakness of mind that should not be encouraged. It is what makes some persons number among their most valued possessions euch treasures as "shell of an egg eaten by Gedk;e Washington," "chin of the monument to Patkrk Hexky," "pebble from the grave of a man who once shook hands witn Lafayette." although like enough they have never taken the trouble to read tha lives and speeches of these great men. "The life is more than meat and tha body is more than raiment.'1" We have not only confused the symbol and the spirit. We have desecrated tha spirit. The school authorities had no more right to order the teachers to take part in this demonstration than they had to order the barbers, or the hod-carriers, or the editors of the city to do the eame. Some of them did not desire to tako part in it. Some principals and some teachers made formal protest. Their reasons were probably various. Some did not feel able physically. Some felt a repugnance to appearing in any kind of street parade. It does not make any difference what tneir reasons were. There was neither legal nor moral right in the requirement. They were employed to teach school. But the school board has authority over them. It does within bounds of the contract. When it goes beyond it is guilty of tyranny nnd oppression. A few weeks ago a measure known es "the street-paving bill" was opposed in the legislature because it involved a breach of contract with the city. Are our teachors less worthy of fair treatment than our corporations? But they ought to have had patriotism enough to make them enjoy the ceremony. That was what Gkssler thought when he made the Swiss bow to his hat. This petty tyranny was an insult to everything for which the Liberty bell stands. People have different ideas of patriotism. W e have not been able to induce the placing on Indiana's patriotic monument tha date on which this bell proclaimed liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants thereof, notwithstanding in the war of independence the soil of Indiana was secured to tha union, wet with the blood of Indiana patriots. There is even a large class of patriots who object to having any patriotism but thoir own commemorated by the state and who denounce all who take larger views as deficient in patriotism. This country needs more liberty and less intolerance. The spirit of liberty and the spirit of patriotism existed before wa existed. Tbey made the bell. They made the flag. Tbey made America. They made Indiana. And all theso are worth nothing if liberty shall fail. This land has lost its glory if it be not the land of tha free. Intolerance is the germ that kills freedori. Bet it be understood that there is no monopoly in patriotism, and can ba none in liberty. Some of our citizens, very good ones in their way, seem to think that tha remainder of tha community is in danger of losing all patriotism. Patriotism must be "stimulated" or the country is lost. Hence this parade. Hence the flags on the common schools. One gentleman even went so far as to insist that the flag should be raised each morning by tha DUDÜs, "with appropriate ceremonies." This is thoughtful What can be mora

beautiful than this care for the patriotism of others? But did you ever sea an American who was worried about his own patriotism? Did yea ever see one who felt it necessary to march around the Liberty bell, or anything else, in order to keep alive the lova of country? Did you ever see one who thought he needed to raise a flag every morning, with appropriate ceremonies, in order to stimulate his own patriotism? Did you ever reflect bow strange it is that our ancestors managed to make a reasonable showing of patriotism without this dress parade and not only our ancestors, .but people of all nations and all times? Why would it not be a good thing for everyone to take care of his own patriotism, and let others have the liberty of managing theirs? Supp ose we try it for a few weeks. Let other people be patriotic according to the dictates of their own consciences, and if the country suffers any we can etart anew on tha old plan. Production of Iol(t and SUrer. The Chicago Tribune is in some respects one of tha most remarkable newspapers on the lace of the globe. One of them is the extreme ease with which it can fly around from one position to another, and at the same time assert it is remaining still while the rest of the wold is revolving about it. For gome time it has been justly celebrated for advocating tariff reform between elections snd earnestly championing protectionism during campaigns. This is not altogether to be condemned. It shows talent. It shows versatility. No newspaper would like to concede that it was not able to take either 6ide of a controversy, and it is, therefore, not strange that occasionally one should give an example of this ability. But of all erratic evidences of talent that the

Tribune has given we know of nothing mora impudent than the following: The latest report of the director of the U. S. mint gives the following as the total production of gold by all the mines in the world for the last three calendar years; 1810 J113.li3.600 1X91 1.UI.518.S00 1SI'2 l;J0,l 6,600 These figures indicate a steady increaso in the production of gold, the gain for the last year being SA per cent. Of this increase for 1S'. one-fourth part was from the mines of Australasia and the rest from South Africa. The produc t of the latter reached the total of Jl,l,.0;,J,.)7S for last year, which is about equal to the gold production of Russia, and makes that region second only to the United states and Australia. The three totals stated above do not include any allowance for production in China, though that has been estimated by competent authorities to be $0,000,000 to Si.OOO.OtH) annually. In the face of these assertions, what becomes of the claim so often made by the advocates of a debased silver coinage that tha production of gold in the world is steadily decreasing? It is shown to bo an utter falsehood. Will the Tribune venture to specify? Will it mention any prominent or intelligent advocate of silver free coinage who ever stated that the production of gold is decreasing? Will it name the time and place of such statement? Will it endeavor to give any intelligible reason why any advocate of free coinage should make any such statement? What argument could he ba?e on it? In what way would it benefit his case? The truth is, as the readers of The Sentinel well know, that the constant answer to tho gold-bug claim, that the world is bein; flooded with silver, has always been thai the gold supply of the world was increasing more rapidly in proportion than that of silver. In the last thirty years the production of gold was enormously in excess of the production of silver. It is only in the last ten years that the production of eilver has been the greater, and tbe increase in that period has been so sluht that it could not possibly havo any effect oa the value of 6ilver. If the Tribune knows anything about the silver question, or anything about the newspaper discussion of it, it knows that the position which it so triumphantly overthrows is a position of the "honest money" people and not ono of tho free silver men. Tbe relative supplies and va.ues of gold and silver, in the world, have stood aa follows during the several periods of tbe present century: TW of Hilter Ounces of s Iver to one ot sold to buy one tJt .-iiny. cj foi. 1S00-20 S2.2 16.3 U-21-40 311.1 15.6 1S41-60 31. 15.6 lNil-70 '22.6 15.0 1S71-60 Kti 16.7 ls.si- 2 1S.4 17.6 183- 4 ls.5 18.4 6 v.... IS l'.'.'J 1SS7- 8 bS.6 21.2 ISM) 1Ö.7 1S.3 It will be seen from these figures that tha proportional gold eupply increased from 1840 to 1SS2, and that since then there has been a very small gradual increase of silver. All tha violent fluctuation in the value of eilver (or gold, as you prefer) has been since 1870. when the policy of demonetizing silver originated. It is evident that these fluctuations result entirely from the demonetization, and not from the production of the two metals, because from 1800 to 1870, whon the supply fluctuated widely, tho relative value of the metals was constant. But from 1870 to 1S90, when the supply remained practically constant, the fluctuation in value was extreme. And, more than this, although the proportional supply of silver has been iess since 1S70 than in the preceding seventy years, the proportional value has been lees also, instead of higher, as it naturally should have been. When tha Tribune discovers an important fact that is already generally known it should try to learn what it means before using it. "That Accursed lMle." In an editorial on the evüs of the Sherman bill the New York I'oM says: It is that accursed pile of silver that obscures tbe thinking faculties of many poopie. Imagine for a moment that it were pig-iron of which he has to buy SjO.OOO.O'.JO worth every year for no purpose except to keep tha iron trade good, and that this expenditure added toothers left him with an annual deficit. Of course sooner or later he wou'd have to dip into his "reserve." And so it would be whether there happened concurrently to be a foreign demand for gold or not. This is a curious mixture of truth and error. Unquestionably many persons ara confused by the pilo of silver bullion in tha treasury, and unquestionably it is tha eame, in principle, as so much pig irdn. It ia a commodity, and not money. But it is not kept merely to keep tha silver trade good. It was put there to make the silver trade bad. That was the object, and it has been accomplished. Everybody sees it now. There is no advocate of silver

coinage who does not realize that silver is reduced in price because the government makes it a commodity. 'o gold monometallist but realizes it. That is why, at the international monetary conference, the most pronounced gold standard men advocated that other countries should adopt the same policy. The claim that it was done to help the silver producers is a false pretense. It helps nobody. If the law were repealed silver would certainly advance in price. Whatever policy the country might adopt afterward, this action would be a guarantee that the warehouse policy had been abandoned. It would be an assurance that hereafter the government of the United States did not propose to treat silver as a mere commodity which was to be used as collateral security for its notes. Moreover, it would be a notification to the world that hereafter the currency of the country was to be controlled by the government at d not by the bankers. No better assurance of the stability of the currency than that could be given. The whole cause of the recent difficulty was that tha bankers could, by depositing a commodity and drawing out money, when tno treasury funds had been reduced by extravagance and mismanagement, force a situation in which they imagined they could force the issuing of bonds. The bankers of Wall-st. must be reduced to tha ranks. They must be made to understand that the powers conferred on then? by a republican administration will not be to erated any longer. The government must be left unhampered in maintaining the parity of gold and silver, and then it can perform that duty. The road to a stable currency on tbe old basis lies through the repeal of the Sherman law. ' ET CETERA.

Miss Susan B. Anthony will lecture at the Cincinnati Odeon Thursday evening on "What have we gained after forty years' agitation ?'' Mus. Susannah Chadwick of Emporium, Pa., is a revolutionary pensioner and receives $25 a month. She is seventy-four years of ago. The RnjixU r at Stanford university, California, announces that ex-President Harrison will begin his course of lectures on international law next October, when the new school of law will be opened. Frederic k L. Billon, an early settler of St. Louis, celebrated his ninety-second birthday last Sunday. He is a native of Philadelphia, removed West in liSlS, and has been a subscriber to the St. Louis AVpnblicitn (now Jirpublic) for seventy-four years. "The gossips of the capital are telling a pretty story about Secretary of the Navy Herbert and Mrs. Manning, widow of Daniel Manning, secretary of the treasury under Mr. Cleveland's first adminis tration. The story is to the et.'ect that these two will ba tbe contracting parties in a wedding shortly to take place. The Salt Lake City Ihrahl, speaking of the attractions of that place to eight-seers from all over the world, reports that last week the register of tbe Knutsford hotel contained the names of guests from England, Germany, Spain, France, Hungary, Sardinia, Australia, Sweden, Russia, Queensland, Wales, Ireland and New Zealand. The Oklahoma boomers are much dis gusted at the outcome of their new territory. It is said that thousands are abandoning their claims and returning to their old homes. There has been much more eul'ering among the whites than emon the negroes, for the latter havo helped each other, whi a the white family in poor luck has had to help itself. Murders and euicides by mere children in France are reported to be very fre quent. Nine murders of boys and girls under ten years of age, committed by bovs under fourteen, are noted within the past few months. Suicides are about as numerous. Two occurred a couple of weeks ago, one of a boy who hanged himself, and the other of a girl who threw herself into the Seine. A new method of preserving pictures is being experimented with in London. It consists of placing the surface of the picture, be it canvas or paper, in a vacuum, thus protecting it from atmos pheric action. The picture is enclosed in a metal frame or a case, covering the back and sides and projecting from the sides like an ordinary frame. A plate of trlass is inserted in the edea of the case, just as in an ordinary frame and hermetically pealed to the metal. The air ia then withdrawn from between tho suriace of the picture and the glass, and the painting is in a vacuum. It is believed this plan will eiiectually protect pictures from the action of dampnesn, air, eases and other causes that operate to destroy paintings exposed or framed in the ordinary way. At the aquarium in Berlin there is a big gorilla whose habits are about as correct as those of most of bis distant relatives. He gets up at 8 in the morning and takes a bath, and uses eoap without hesitation. When his toilet is completed betakes a cud of milk, after which he eats two loaves of bread, with Frankfort sausages and smoked Hamburg beef, all of which bo moistens with a glass of Weiss beer. At 1 p. m. he takes a bowl of soup, with rice and potatoes and a wing of a chicken. He uses his knife and hia fork and his napkin like one of our own four hundred, but when he thinks that his keepers are not observing him he discards the impediments of civilization and plunges his muzzle into the bowl, as if to give evidence of the melancholy fact that even a gorilla can be a hog. PANIC IN A CHURCH Uy tho K.xplosioii of Powder Used for tho Colored Lights. Wilkesrarre, Pa., April 2S. At an entertainment of the methodist episcopal church at Fairvie a terrible panic was caused by a mixture of powder used to produce colored lights in the tableaux becoming ignited and exploding. When the explosion occurred the church was packed with people. Men. women and children made a mad rush for the doors and trampled on one another in their wild rush to escape. No one was killed outright, but some are so seriously injured that their deaths are probable. Mrs. George Edwards was holding a baby in her arms, which was torn from her and stepped on and its tkull fractured. Many wpre taken out unconscious. The following are tba injured: A. Bkown, severely burned and internal injurita. 1'LIZA Smith, ikall fractured by beiug atej pel ou. and burned about body. ilAMR Hkllisckr, cut and bruited about bead and body. Mrs. Q Koro e Edwards, bead eut and bruited. Lottik Dean, considerably bruised. Li i.li E Chakcer, burued about faee nnd bruised. J. C. Coi.bob. druggiit, severely burned aud hurt inUroallr. J. M osier, burnt about head. Old sores are hoaled by Salvation Oil.

oSUNDAY THOUGHTS! M0RALS? MANNERS'

XT X CLERGYMAX, Our religious exchanges are full of the subject of inter-denominational co-operation. The weakness and scandal of cutthroat denominational competition is increasingly felt and deprecated. Then five or eight weak churches struggling in one small town for mere existence, only vigorous in drawing upon tbe trust funds of tha various missionary boards, and are substantially agreed in Christian faith and practice thi3 is a common but not an edifying exhibit. Neither is it creditable for the great evangelical bodies to wage a guerrilla war ngiinst the world, the (leeh and the devil, when by drawing the independent forces into one vast whole animated by a single purpose and directs 1 by a central intelligence, the economics might be consulted and subserved and the victory assured. According to tbe eleventh census there are in the United States 143 separate denominations, of which thirteen are organized baptist bodies, sixteen lutheran, seventeen methodist and fifteen presbyterian. These fsraily groups differ but slightly, not enough to warrant a distinct life. And the great denominational families are at one in bo far as essentials are concerned. A proper reduction of each group to a eingle family would eliminate about H') of the 140 titles which now represent American religion. The remainder might be happily reduced and made more efficient by union in 601.10 form. What form shall Christian union assume? This is the burning question. That it cannot be organic all concede; for that would imply what does uot exi.-t, viz: absolute relationship and vital interdependence between the denominations. It would merge all in one. This new body would ba heterogeneous, unweil ly and despotic would produce more evils than it sought to remedy. The consensus of opinion favors a federal union ; that is, a union for some purpOBos, which shall yet have intact the bodies forming it for all other purposes. Their pian has two great merits. Firt, it is feasible for we are familiar with it in a political bcnse in the constitution of our country. 'Tis peculiarly American, and hence appeals to our patriotic and Christian feeling ; ceeond, it does not annihilate the constituent bodies. Their entity, history and eelt-esteem are all considered. In this plan inhere the maximum of advantages and the minimum of disadvantages. That pome form of Protestant church union will be adopted in the near future wa believe is certain. That it will be federal union wa feel equally sure. God Bpeed the day! The distinguished professor of geology in Harvard university has just published a book, remarkable in itself, and more remarkable because of its birthplace. The professor is N. S. Shaler. The book is entitled "The Interpretation of Nature." In the preface of tbe book he says: "My first contact with natural science in my youth and early manhood had the not uncommon effect of leading me far away from Christianity. Of late years a further insight into the truths of nature has gradually forced me once again toward the ground from v hieb I had departed." As a studv in psychology theHe pages are of absorbing interest. As a discussion of great current issues in bcience and religion, and a harmony of the two, they are masterly. The style is simple and vivacious. The denouement h as dramatic as a no vel. In such a work skeptical Harvard makes partial atonement for manifold vagaries. 'Tis a wise saying of St. Bernard of Clairvant, ono of the most illustrious of the old churchmen, that the desire to know for the mere sake of knowing is a mean curiosity ; the desire to know lor tha mere sake of reputation, is a mean vanity ; the desire to know in order to make gain of knowledge is a base greed ; the desire to know for the purpose of edifying oneself and one's fellows is true wisdom and prudence. Wa commend these distinctions to careful consideration. "Auntie," cried one of a group of children, eays a writer in MnyfJotrrr, "please tell me something nice to do. We're tired of Sunday. It's too late to go out and it's too early for the lamp and the wrong time for everything." "Well, let me see." said Auntie. "Can you tell me anyone in the bible whose name begins with A?" "Yes; Adam." "I'll tell you B, Auntie," cried another "Benjamin." "And I know C." shouted a third "Cain." "Let roe tell D," said Joe "Daniel." And so it went through the alphabet. Before we thought of it we were called to supper. The bouse was lighted and put on an evening basis, and wa bad had a fine time. All tha archbishops of Ireland, Protestant and catholic, have signed a document in favor of a bill to maka Sunday closing in Ireland permanent. Such an agreement in these United States would be a boon to labor. The Inferior Bays that PrH-ident Urston of Crozer theological seminary, has attacked the orthodoxy of that favorite hymn, "Nearer, My God, to Thee," and thinrs the "over much righteous" of Solomon and the "unco guid" of Bobby Burns still live to altlict mankind. Tha armed peace of Europe is nothing but an oppressive truce. Those electrical influences are in tha air called rumors ot war. The French hate the Germans. The ltuasians hate tha Austrians. And all hate England. Meantime France is armed to the teeth. Germany is armed to the teeth. Russia is armed to the teeth. Austria is armed to the teeth. Italy, through excessive armament, is on tho verge of bankruptcy. "The unspeakable Turk" is tolerated in Europe because tha great powers cannot agree upon an administrator of his estate. In this state of things industry languishes. Capital is afraid to embark in

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enterprise. The commercial situation is dismal. The peopl are irritable and suspicious. War would break out tomorrow if all concerned were not afraid to disturb the ghastly equipoise afraid of plunging from bad to worse. Tha map of the continent is likely to be remodeled before tha end of tha century. Meanwhile, let us be thankful that we live in America.

A single crime of snap in a prayer meeting or Sunday-school is worth more than a ton of pious propriety. F. .U Doctrine without duty is a tree without fruits. Duty without doctrine is a tree without roots. Tall 4 S. Chambers. The end of our life is God. the rule of our life, duty ; the obstacles, our bad paseions. Lnroninin ; "Why should I suffer eo much!" Put the case in another way: "Why should I not suffer more?' God does not deal with us after our eins. Ac.v. Jesus Christ calls ycu to happiness not through self-indulgence, but through fcelfsacritice. Lyvi-ni Afhvtt. Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet. ShUn. Syllables govern the world. lb. Tho heads of foolish folks are sometimes eo little that there is no room lor wit; sometimes eo large that thero is do wit for so much room. TLumas FnU. r. I know a very nice man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads be need uot care who ehou'd make the laws oi a nation. Fhtdur of &ll! i'H). He who would not be frustrated of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things outrht himself to be a true poem. Jvlin Mitt. 01. Prof. Yirchow, reaffirms his belief that no trace of "the misting link" between man and the lower animals has been discovered either in the huanaa skull, which are believed to be most ancient or in tho physical structure of modern tavagep. He urges that the immediate task for anthropologists is to explaiu the origin of tha existing human races and to d termine the causes by which these ruces, while retaining tho power of hereditary transmission, have acquired their distinctive characteristics. Prehistoric anthropology, be nays, ought to find methods which would facilitate the recognition of ancient races and enable us to rind them again among the races of the present day. The gospel according to the prophets and the gospel according to John the Bn -tist is much needed nowadays. This was the gospel of righteousness or rightnes. Here is a good text from this gospel: "Cease to do evil ; learn to do well." Spurgeon once said be didn't want anybody who was fitted for the exalted position of a missionary to dwindle down into ainare king, or to die a poor millionaire. According to the Jrpnn Miil, the time is ripe for the reformation of Buddhism, but there is no priest in sight who is e.j'ial to the task. The requirements of other departments absorb the available talent ot tha mikado's empire, and the priesthood is composed of the lowest dregs of the people. 'Tis a wise saying that a man who attempts to do something and fails u better than a whole regiment of wiseacres who simply look on and criticise. As science enlarges its boundaries the line between tho animal and the human become more vague. Darwin found that animals poseces memory, reasoning power, a(lction. desire for revenue, a spirit of their own and a sense of humor. One day last February the temperature was reported to be at 10 degrees above zero in Florida and at M below in Montanaboth on Uncle Sam's farm. In New York 4,"0J Jews, all men between tho ages of eighteen and forty-five, have recently signified in writing their determination to become members of "Christ's Synague" a church of Hebrews who accept Jesus as the Messiah. Minzenberger, in bis Aly&'ainn, holds that the regeneration of Abyssinia is tha first step toward gaining Africa for modern civilization and the gospel, that ia these old eents and centers of Christian culture the best baee of operation can be found, from which the work of continental enlightment could extend in all directions. A church has been aptly compared to a man on a bicycle it must keep going or fall. When the doke of Wellington (then Sir Arthur Weliesley) was in Afghanistan a native rajah once complained to him that a certain Col. Lrown hud threatened to hang bim if he did not produce 100 camels by day break. "My good rajah." eaid the iron duke, '"produce Hie catuels, for Brown never lies." They were forthcoming. MINERS'-STRIKE SETTLED. Tho Men Will Work for tho Same AVages as Last Year. Pittsbufg, April 2i The settlement of tbe minert' strike in tbe Piluburg district baa a national efecL It puts an end to the prospective ttrike of nearly thirty thousand miuert in tha United States, insures the operators apainst a long and expensive struggle and protects the miners a?a:ost a possible reduetion, for iftf the oieratora had won it was their intention to enforee a reduction from last year's wages to as to compensate for the loss caused by the strike. National Secretary Patrick McDriJeof tbe United mine workers is still in Pittsburg. He stated today that it res the intention of tbe miners of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to demand en advance if ttie minert in the Pittsburg dimrict struck, but that the agreement signed here yesterday settled it and last year'a acale will now prevail iu all districts. Said be: "Ia these dart of close competition it would be useless to attempt to enforce a higher rate in one tiihtriet than in another. I felt that there wocll be hesitancy here and I expected weakness ia Illinois, although there were tix organizer! ia the northern district. Yet, when the convention was held at t-trealor, it was decided to ak aa advance. Sucb a mild mannered request showed weakness. With tbe unstable coudi tion of minert there and the withdrawal of the l'itubunr district, Ohio. Indian and acmhern Illinois eouii not au'ord to fight for the advance. Mankind's friend, Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. a h ri m ir