Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1893 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. HAT 31, 1893 TWELVE PAGES.

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

ItattrtU at U. roto!hc at Ia.liaaapoha u Mcond cImi matter. 1 TF.IOtS FKIl VKAKc f!rr ropy (lnritlT In Aclanc.). 1 OO VV democrat to b ar In tuiti'l nrvt imlrct th-tr wn ttatf pnpf-r when they coin to Utk luWrifw l.titnl makfl up cluli. Afittii making uji clubs wnd for anr Infnmintlnn trairtO. dJi-MlUL 1MIA Alt US 8KNTIN F.L " Imli.inaio!iA, InL TWELVE PAGES. WEDNESDAY. MAY 31, ls'Jll. Ir U said that the South Carolina liquor law allows a man only one drink per day. .1! this be true the governor of North Carolin can talk freely and truly. The lynching mania has broken out in Michigan. We are pleased to know that Indiana has no monopoly on this sort of lawlessness. Jt is also pleasant to nave icme one to share the nation's disapprove. The number of truly good statesmen whose active wicked partner Dwiogins was is growing alarmingly. What m pity it ia thai to many men of irreproachable character should be such chumps in a business way. We never know how many of then there are until the wicked parisen are pushed to the wall. Then the truly pood Lave to expose their ignorance in order to save their reputation for in teA'rity. The spoliation of the Gettysburg battle Held continues to be warmly discussed by Pennsylvania editors. Tho members of the town council of Gettysburg are very much exercised about the matter. It seems that the proposed electric road will cut to pieces and make unrecognizable varioui plota of ground where important struggles took place between the opposing forces. The general appearance of the historic spot will probably be much changed if not disfigured by the march of thia new forco of the nineteenth century. Immk.kai ion seems to have declined somewhat this year eo far in comparison with the opening months of last year. Tor the first four months of ls'Jlt the records show the arrivals to be UV-"-1-' against lss.ö'. for tha corresponding period of last year. In April this year there came from abroad 1 1 against ISS.Ö'.I la.-t year. Russia and Poland sent only about one-hsli of the number thev sent last year. From Scotland, England end Wales there was a slight increase. German immigration shows a decrease of about two-fu'thü. Even in misfortune "Calico Cn ri.ii:" Poster lo?es none of his demagogy. His attempt to place responsibility for his business failure on the financial policy of ihe present administration is about as blatant a piece of deri.p.gogy as has come to the surface in many years. No one knows better than 1tei: himself that the financial condition of which he complains ia the direct result of mischievous republican - legislation, and that he was forced to "cook" the treasury accounts during bis entire administration to suppress the knowledge of tho nation's bankruptcy. NoTwiTrirAM'iN. the cold and uncea tonable wea'her E ist and West for many weeks pftt, it is reported that there will be a line crop o reaches. The fruit kiiler was expected to ba out in force this year, but somehow dues not seem to materialize to any very formidable extent. The reports from Delaware. New Jersey and ether peach growing sections are so favorable that a New York paper is moved to remark "Is the mi lennimn at hand?" The queniun id prompted by the circumstance ;hat gcul report- have ju.-t been sent out 'jromtnd t each growing country, instead of those which are cu-toniarhy in onler at 'Iiis sea-on oi the year. The: Phiiadel phia 1 cannot refrain from coloring all sorts of news to suit its political Strabismus Jt eays of our recent lynching disgraces: The two tragedies occurred in adjoining Counties, situated in the bouthern part oi Indiana and pop dated largely by Kentucky people. The local. ty has been noted for its crime and whitecapis-u, most of which has gone unpunished. The state cf eocitv in that neighborhood approaches nearer, probablv, to southern society than any other in tue North. It , nevertheless, u Kinging disgrace to Indiana and a d;-courukin illustration of the state of morality that prevails in tome cf it counties. This is probtbiy soothing music to the ears of the virt;.o is 2c ay's constituency, but what will the J'r.i.t gay of the murder in the court house of ono of the leading republican counties in the state, where both persons iuvolve 1 were from the republican county of Boote? A novel scheme comes outlined from New Jersey. A company has been formed at Newark who will engage in the business of raising sunken ateamera and vessels, especially those which are supposed to contain money and other valuable treasure. The method to attain this result is certainly a novel one. Large numbers of bags will be placed in the hold of a sunken vessel by divers. These bags will be connected by hose with air pumpg on floats at the surface and ' air will then be pumped into them. It is expected that as the bags expand they will drive out the water from the hold and give the vessel sufficient buoyancy to cause it to rise to the surface. The first experiment will be made on the famous steamer Oregon, which sank about two years ago at the extreme end of Long Island. A capital of $2,500,000 has been invested in the enterprise. The plan looks feasible to an Inland mind and if eo may prove a paying investment. New York thinks to outdo Chicago in the line of sky-scraping buildings. A building on Broadway is about to be erected which it is claimed will be the highest ofhee building in the world. It id being erected for a life insurance company. This building will have a frontage on Broadway of a trifle more than 67 fset. with lid feet depth on the north line and 12-3 feet depth on the south line. The building proper is to be sixteen stories high on the Broadway front and seventeen stories high on New-si. It will have a height of 242 feet from the Broadway sidewalk to the top of the main roof, and a height of 253 feet on New-st. Using from the main roof on the Broadway front U a towar terooinatina in a dome.

increasing the height of the building from the Broadway sidewalk to the foot of the flagstaff to 347$ feet. The distance from the base of the foundations to the top of the dome will be 40S fest. The steel skeleton construction now used universally for tall buildings admits cf walls no thicker than would be provided for tho ordinary six or eignt story office building. An old priciple used exclusively heretofore in bridge building, is being applied to secure a stable foundation for this aky scraper. It is the sinking of caissons to bed rock, 5 to ö0 feet bolow the level of Broadway. A Silver Catechlmi. The Evansville Courier submits to The Skntinel several questions, which are answered herein. so far as the answering ability here located makes poseible. The first is: Will The Sentinel kindly quote the law that makes gold alone the standard of our currency? The act of Feb. 12, ls73, provides, in sec. 14, "that the gojd coins of the United States shall be a one-dollar piece, which, at the standard weight of twenty-five and eight-tenths grains.shall be the unit of ra'ue; a quarter-eagle," etc., "which coins shall be a legal tender in all payments at their nominal value when not below the standard weight and limit of tolerance provided in this act for the single piece, and. when reduced in weight below said standard and tolerance, shall be a legal tender at valuation in profntrtion to their actual weight." This is the law of the land today. The same law provided for the coinage of a trade dollar containing silver worth $1.02 in the "unit of value,' a halfdollar containing silver worth .41, and minor coins in proportion to the half-dollar. These coins were legal tender for $". What kind of dollars? "I'nita of value." The same law provided "that any owner of gold bullion may deposit tho same at any mint, to be formed into coins or bars fur hi fx'uejit," but as to silver this privilege was given only for the coinage of trade dollars, "and no deposit of silver for other coinage thail be received." This law dropped the old silver dollar of 412 grains from our coinage system. The Bland law of Feb. 28, 1S73. restored tha legal tender quality of the silver dollar, "except when otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract," and provided for the coinage of it from buhion purchased by the secretary of the treasury "at the market price thereof." Tho free coinage of the trade dol ar was suspended by the act of July 22, ls70, and there has been no free coinage of silver of any kind since then. The I'.iand bill also provided that eilver should not be used by the government in payment of "coin certilicatea" issued under s?c. 25 1 of tho lie vised Statutes. Our "unit of value" is the gold dollar, and all other currency is based on it. The Con rite further asks: What fixes the value of gold except the use. to which gold is put? If the universal use of gold as money and as the only standard of all currencies does not enhance the value of gold bui ion why have the price of gold and the value of gold coin increased so enormously since the great commercial nations of the world tfVx;- Ti-vi u i'Ji the u: of any title r ta)nlnrI.' Either Tue Sentinel's position is incorrect or eise the time-honored law of supply and danand is absurd. This question partially answers itself. The chief agency in the appreciation of gold since 1871 has been the dispensing with tho bimetallic standard. If it could be required by law that all watcher fehould be made of gold there would I-1 still greater appreciation. But it is Av-t merely the amount of the use but also the character of the use that allects value. From ls"0 to lssf) gold would unquestionably have depreciated largely in value but for its universal fre coinage. The fact that a certain quantity of it could be made into a certain coin at any time kept ihn value of that quantity near the value of that coin. In other words, it was never a mere commodity in free coinage countries. In India there have been times when money could not be obtained for gold bullion. The world has coined more silver in tho last twenty years than in any period of the same length preceding it, and yet silver has depreciated in value eteadily. It was u-rd, but used at market value instead of nt coining value. The Sentinel hts not said that 4 the use or disuse of siiver cannot have any effect on the value of nlver bullion." It said that alter silver had been purchased and taken out of the market its circulation or lack of circulation as money could not atfect the value of silver bullion. It says further that the coining of silver bought at market value cannot possibly restore it to its former relation to gold, because when a silver dollar is issued the government's credit enters into it to supply the deficiency of intrinsic value, and that credit is on a gold basis. The silver dollar lost its relation to silver bullion when free coinage ceased. Nothing but free coinage can restore that relation. The Courier further asks: What is all the row about in Wall-st., on the one hand, and in the western mining states on the other, if the policy of the treasury department, whether it be friendly or hostile, can have no effect upon the market price of silver bullion throughout the world? What sense is there in making an issue of silver if its treatment by the treasury department is of so little consequence? Above all, what use is there in wasting time over a proposition to change the policy of the treasury toward silver altogether? It ia all the result of not understanding the subjact considered. The western gentlemen thoueht they could increase the value of silver bullion by making an artificial market for it. That was an application of the theory of protection. It failed, and the western gentlemen then said the failure was due to the hostility of the treasury department, because they had nothing else to say. The treasury depart ment has been doing what the law required it to do. The law is responsible for the situation. The Courier further asks: If silver should be wholly demonetized, as it will be if the Sherman law is repealed without substituting some free coinage measure for it, does The Sentinel doubt that silver bullion would still further decline in the world's markets? The repeal of the Sherman law would not demonetize silver i. e., the repeal of the first section, which is all that anyone proposes. It merely stops the compulsory purchase of 4,500,000 ounces of silver per month. The coinage ia practically stopped under the provisions of sec. 3 of the act All silver heretofore coined would retain its money value as before, AU hsreiftsr coined would Lav the

tame value. Neither a suspension of compulsory purchase of bullion nor a suspension of actual coinage is a demonetization. The government has not coined a silver half-dime, or three-cont piece, or a copper two-cent piece for twenty years, and yet these coins arc just as good money as ever, l'owaibly suapenaion of purchase of eilver will not stop the decline of silver bullion. Does the Conr'or wish to guarantee that the continued purchase of eilver will stop it? The question now is not so much the recovery of the parity of the metals in bullion aa the preservation of their parity in coin. If that were lout, tho difficulties of restoring parity of the uncoined metals would be immensely increased. The Sentinel does not believe that the suspension ot purchase ' silver Dullion would decrease the value of bullion, but even if it did it is better for the country to understand that it is a waste of time to try to restore parity of the metals in bullion by forced purchases. American Fairness. A few days ago a Chinese tea merchant named Wong Lost;, who keeps a shop on Doyers st. in New York City, told his Chinese friends that he did not believe the Geary law w ould be enforced, and for his reason said "It ia against the fairness of the American people." Under some circumstances such a statement might make Americans feel proud, but just now it is better calculated to bring a blush to their cheeks. What has American fairness to do with it? American fairness did not prevent the passage and enforcement of the Scott law, and even the champions of the Geary law admitted that it had done a great injustice to a large number of Chinamen. American fairness did not prevent the passage of the Geary law. American fairness did not prevent the supreme court from holding it conetitutionaL How could American fairness prevent its enforcement even if it so desired? This is one of the cases in which the theoretical justice and largeness of mind of the American people grata harshly against the ugly facts of their injustice and narrow-mindedness. It is simply astonishing how they can calmly rise superior to all considerations of justice and humanity when they take the notion. The objections made to this bill, both in congress and out of it, were not and are not based on friendship for the Chinese or any desire to encourage their immigration to this country. Neither did those who favored the bill in congress assert that they had any desire to send out of the country those who were lawfully here. They simply proposed to subject those who were here to a kind of treatment not given to any other human beings in this country for the purpose of avoiding the fraudulent importation of others. It was a proposition to do an unjustifiable thing to secure what was considered a desirable result, and some congressmen, like Senator Palmer of Illinois, had the courage to stand up and protest against any such breach of our established principles as making an arrested person prove that he is innocent, excluding testimony except that of "white persons," subjecting a man to imprisonment for a year and banishment for life if ho is "found without" a certificate that he is a lawful resident of the country. And what is more, this registration was to be done within one year from the passage of the law, and the law is not yet published and circulated its constitutionality was not passed upon until after the year had expired. Now, under the law. those Chinamen who came hero under the treaty stipulations must be sent out of the country because they did not "register." Why did they not register ? On account of undue faith in "American fairness." Their lawyers told them that the law would certainly be held unconstitutional, and they believed it. If this result had been anticipated the law might not have been enacted. Senator Dolph, who championed the measure in the senate, said : "I do not be ieve at the end of a year there will be any Chinese laborers in the United States found without a certiticata." He was mistaken. He did not realize how much faith the simple celestials would have in American fairness. There is nothing to be gained by indulging in vain delusions now. If there is any feasible way of stopping the action of the law it has not yet been made public. The evil appears to be accomplished. Imaginary Dangers. It is gratifying to note that the New York Tribune has cut away from the ridiculous theory, advocated by some other republican newspapers, that a reduction of tariff rates would reduce tbe revenue received from the tariff. Ir now concedes that reduced tariff rates will result in larger importations of goods, and therefore tho amount of revenue cannot be ad equately measured by applying the proposed rates to the former amounts of imports. Thin is an encouraging bit of progress, but the Tribune sees another danger that appals it in a probable excess of im ports over exports. It says:' The expected increase in dutiable imports in a single year is $171.000,000, or considerably more than half. This large sum we should have to pay to foreigners for goods which Americans now produce, and besides to pay for the various artioles, principally wool and other materials, which it is proposed to make free and which would also be largely imported. As the value of such other articles imported is now thirty-seven millions, and probably no one would expect to see less than ninety millions worth of them imported if free of duty, this would make the total increase two hundred and twenty-fire millions the first year, to be paid abroad for articlea which Americans now produce. In the last twelve months we have imported goods worth nine hundred and twenty-six millions, paying partly in products, but exporting one hundred and four millions specie also. With two hundred and twenty-live millions more to pay abroad, how long would tbe specie hold out? It is not to be believed that the Tribune actually imagines any auch result would follow, because its writers have reasonable opportunities for acquiring information, and they ought to have better judgment than such expressions would indicate. Certainly tbey know that a decrease of dutiea on raw materials will enable manufacturers of many articles to increase their foreign sales. They know that tbe certainty of this has caased a division of eastern manufacturers on the tariff question, and that many of them have joined in tbe demand for tariff reform on that account. This is notably true in the woollen manu-

i faolurina busintss. The Tribun also

knows that the ability to sell mora goods in this country will enable foreign countries to take

more of our agricultural products. It is ; not many months since Kansas farmers were burning corn for fuel because the foreign demand was limited, and the republican agricultural bureau and a large part of its press have called on farmsrs to limit their crops in order to avoid overproduction. This practice was actually adopted in the South as to cotton. Certainly the Tribune knows that with freer trade our ability to produce will not need to be limited. Neither will it be possible tor combines like the copper trust to shut off produttion in order to advance prices in the home market. Ail these unlawful combinations that have taken the benefit of the tariir law and have in some instances shut down certain factories and mills altogether, and in others suspended work for a portion of the year in order to limit supply and force prices, will under a proper tariff reform be obliged to let manufacturing tako its natural course. This will obviate the second difficulty, which the Tribune predicts as follows: Then the two hundred and twenty-five milions' worth of products which democrats would have us buy abroad are now produced by the labor of more than half a million Americans. This is reckoning the labor expended in production at various stages from the earliest to the latest at rather less than the average rate of wages in manufacturing employments thus far reported. But the half million Americans would have to find something else to do. How are they to live? They have at least a million more depending on them, and how are these to live? It strikes one as a rather bold proposition that a million and a half Americans should be deprived of their livelihood in the first year after a democratic "change." There need bs no worrying on that score. If our people are given the opportunity to reach the markets of the world with their products there will be no lack of employment and no lack of exports. All this country needs is the opportunity to do what it is capable of doing. A IjeifiptlAt I v Commission, Some days since The Sentinel published a communication from the Hon. C. II. Kf.eve, proposing as a remedy for legislative evils the creation of a legislative commission which should formulate laws on subjects called to its attention by members of tbe general assembly and approve or disapprove of bills proposed by them, and also submit bills of its own motion. All acts ot the commission are proposed to be of the nature of recommendations only, and the assembly is to exercise its ordinary powers in disposing of them, as it does In case of any other measures submitted. All bills proposed are to be filed with the secretary of state and to be open to inspection. This would naturally produce report and discussion in the press, and thereby a consideration of measures by the public before they came before the assembly for action. Tbe plan outlined therefore embodies a system of popular initiative, a special consideration of bills by experts and a general consideration of proposed measures by the public In some respects the plan is closely allied to the cabinet system of Europe, toward which this country is tending somewhat, especially in national government. The advantages of such a system that is of such a system properly administered are obvious. It would insure a more careful and deliberate consideration of measures and lessen the dangers of hasty and inconsiderate legislation. It would give the opportunity of getting before the assembly, and before the public, measures which the haste and lack of consideration of the ordinary legislature might otherwise prevent. It does not, however, offer any relief for the one great evil to which The Sentinel has called attention ; i. e., the difficulty of obtaining action on proper measures after they are introduced. That could be done only by making the consideration of such bil.s obligatory on the legislature, and no law of less binding force than tbe constitution could eC'ect that. It may be urged that the weight of the commission's recommendation would be sufficient to secure consideration. It might, and it might not. If a bill proposed were one to which a part of the members, or any considerable portion of the people, had an aversion, an attack would at once be made on the commission itself. There would be talk of "juntas," and "star-chamber legislation," and "centralization of power," and all that sort of clap-trap which is commonly used to prevent consideration of the merits of the thing proposed. The political party in opposition would of course assail the system on these grounds. The recent experience with legislation recommended by the tax commission, which is expressly required to make euch recommendations, is at least good evidence that such a system would not insure action without some further obligation. Would this be constitutional? Under our present constitution it certainly would not. Indeed it may be questioned if a commission of thia kind, which merely recommended legislation, would be constitutional. To what department of tho government would it belong? There may be eome room for question, but it would probably have to be classed as legislative, and the legislative power of the state is "vested in the general assembly." There have been commissions appointed to revise the state statutes, but the work of these Is not binding, except the commission of 1652, which was expressly authorized by the constitution, and. by the way, that commission is provided for under the head of the judicial department. But, as before said, a system of this kind would be of little value unlees the legislature was required to take eome action on the bills proposed, and probably no action short of a requirement for an actual vote on the adoption of the bills would be sufficient to insure the success of the system. And any requirement of this kind would certainly call for an amendment of ths constitution. In this case, as in the others, our present constitution stands in the way of any effective reform. In order that a system of this kind should be effective it would also be necessary that tho commission should have large powers of investigation. The Sentinel has already called attention to English experience in this matter, and that experience has resulted in a very excellent system of legislation. Mr. Edwin Chadwick was for many years engaged officially in parliamentary investigations preliminary to reform legislation was at tbe head of more than a dozen commissions of Inquiry of this kind and he declares

that he never knew one investigation "which did not reverso every main principle and almost every assumed chief elementary fact on which the general public, parliamentary committees, politicians of high position, and often the commissioners theuwelves, were prepared to base legislation." To put this point in another shape, it would be much better to make some preliminary inquiries as to the probable e fleets of important laws than to adopt them by guess-work and get our experience later. A legislative commission clothed with sufficient powere, aud carefully constituted, could be of very great benefit to Indiana, and The Sentinel commends the subject to tho consideration of those who are not afraid of possible revieion of the constitution. A AVorld'e Fair Possibility. If we could choose but one good result to ensue from the Columbian exposition, we should ask that it might be the means of raising American women in the opinion of foreigners. It is to be earnestly hoped that the vast numbers of distinguished foreign women who are visiting America will be given a chance to meet our best society women, and to make a careful study of true American society. It is also to be hoped that these same foreign women who go home to write about America and Americans will assist in destroying the caricatures of the same which have existed for eo long. If there ever was an abused and maligned person, it is the American woman assbe appears on the page of foreign novels, and too often on the page of home fiction. Seek her where you will, you will find her the same horrid production loud, with a vulgar, naaal twang, overdressed, unchaperoned, and always making a dead set for some insignificant foreign lord. Why is it that the hundreds, yes thousands, of pretty, bright, modest American girls who are the pride and light of the laud, never grace the pages of foreign noyels? Or why do not talented writers ever picture the truer and better class of American society founded on a basis of brains? A recent serial story by an American woman printed in a leading periodical dealt entirely with the struggles of a wealthy but unknown woman to get into New York society, the snubs and heartaches which she suffered, finally driving her to London, where under the wing of a dowager duchess she sailed among lords and ladies to the chagrin of her American friends. The same story hinges upon the flirtations of a married man with a fair divorcee, and the heartaches of bis young wife. When a home writer thus caricatures her countrywomen we can not expect much better treatment from foreign writers ; but it is time Miss Columbia was given a fair show! Notwithstanding all the recent incidents of the swindling of farmers in Indiana and the wide publicity given such matters by the newspaper press, another farmer was caught at Goshen last week for over $000. We published the details of the affair in The Daily Sentinel at the time of the occurrence, and it is unnecessary to reproduce them again. was tbe same old story over again. The swindlers were circus followers, and they allowed their victim to win quite a sum of money, and then flushed with success he lost his head completely, and would have risked his farm, eo sure he was of winning. Our advice to farmers is to subscribe for The Sentinel and profit by the experience of others constantly being recorded.

ET CETERA. Among the latest forms of entertainment is one tbey call "An evening with the poets." Eatinr has no place on the program. Buffalo Courier. Nathaniel S. Berry of Bristol, N. II., ia the oldest living ex-governor in the United States. lie was born Sept. 1. 1790, and was elected governor of New Hampshire in 181.1. Governor Lewelling of Kansas can do a graceful act upon occasion. He took charge of the funeral of tbe friendless capitol janitor's wife, and, with other state officials, acted as pallbearer. Edward J. Hopkins, one of the most distinguished of English organists, recently celebrated the completion of his fiftieth year of service as organist to the temp'e in London. He is now seventyfive years old. Richard Croker seems to be as lucky on tbe turf as he is in politics. He has already won $25,000 this season, and the racing has just begun. He may have made much more through bets, but no record is kept of such matters. The Tammany chief has $500,000 invested in hia racing stables. "I met W. II. Calkins at the club hc:e last night. He was prominent for four years aa a congressman from Indiana, and was defeated for governor of tho Hoosier etate. He came near being elected to the senate instead of Squire. He came here about four years ago with $10,000 and he has made enough to be practically independent. Tucoinn ( Wa.ih.) Correspondence Miss Elizabeth Green of Detroit seems to be the representative of American beauty in Europe just now. She is turning Parisian heads at present. While at the eilver wedding festivities the queen of Italy bad her nephew sent awav on military service to keep him safe from the pretty American; tho Roman shop windows displayed photographs of Miss Green standing beside this young count of Turin. Still another conquest was the German emperor, who said she was the only woman he met in Italy sufliciently intelligent for conversation, since which speech the young lady haa been called "the kaisers Miss Green.'' Ex-Vit -K-President Morton's presidential boom is much discussed among politicians in Washington, where he is exceedingly popular. Mr. Morton was recently interviewed about the movement and characterized it as "mere newspaper talk," saying that he was not a candidate for the presidential nomination in lS'.'O, as indeed it was too early for any man to be a candidate. Ii is the general opinion of prominent politicians, however, and more especially rapublican leaders in New York, that he will bo one of the most formidable entries by his party, and that in the meantime nothing will be left undone to keep him in the eye of the public. "U Sh After Von, Too? An amusing child story comes from Valparaiso, this state. A bad small boy there crawled under the bed when bis mother wanted to punish him. She couldn't get him out and ehe left him thereuntil his father returned that evening from the city. When the father came and was told about tbe case he started to crawl under the bed to bring forth his disobedient son, but was almost paralyzed when (he little fellow saluted him with: "Hello, pap 1 is she after you, too ?"

SUNDAY THOUGHTS! ON MORALS MANNERS

IV CXKROTMAX, What with the discussion of tbe opening of the world's fair on Sunday, the Briggs question, the Russian treaty, and the Geary law, the churches have their hands full nowadays of practical issues. The pulpiteers do not live in tbe clouds or at any rate, have no need to do so. Questions of Immediate moment press for settlement, and the here and the hereafter intersphere. Rightly viewed, the nocalled antithesis between the secular and the sacred does not exist. The most beaten and familiar paths lie under the awful shadow of the infinite. All service is temple service, when the heart is Christian. The progress of religion in the soul of the individual is salvation; but the world's salvation is through secular progress. Christ Himself said that the kingdom of God is here and now, "in" men and "among" men. What an opportunity the churches have in our day and in our country to domesticate heaven on earth! If, as Markham said, every man's life is a plan of God, then each of ns needs an annointed eyo to see this plan, an energized will to co-work with God in its completion, the spirit of self-surrender in the work, and the indwelling of the Holy G host. Where there is love there will be service. Love lives to spend and be spent on behalf of the beloved. It finds its heaven in self-sacrifice, and its hell in inactivity. As to burdens, they cease to be such when we bear them as privileges. Who would regard the' carrying of $5,000 in gold as a hardship? When the churches are quarreling the devil goes off on a vacation. For then ministers and elders and deacons and vestrymen are doing his work. The substance of tbe gospel has been expressed in four words: We are to Bubmit, admit, commit and transmit. Those who imagine that heathenism is dead in Japan had better consider the vitality now being shown by Buddhism in the erection in Kioto of a magnificent temple at the enormous cost of $ 1 1,000,000. The world over the money test ia a good test. ' Men will pay for what they value and ray in proportion to their valuation. When a people as poor as the Japanese will raise such sums for their dying faith, it cannot be quite dead. Better not just yet Bet the day for the funeral ! But 'tis a great thing for Christianity to secure the privilege of free competition within the Mikado's empire. Time and its own fruits must show its superiority. When man bows before God, solf-depre-ciation is a duty. 'Tis no impeachment of our worthiness to say we are bare, naked nothings before God. The attitude of the publican becomes the best of it. Some thirty years ago two Tartar chiofa came from the borders of China to St. Petersburg to study the Russian language and learn something of European manners. A German missionary, who was translating the new testament into their native tongue, engaged them to aid him in his work. As they went on with their labor they asked him many questions about Jesus and the truths he taught. When the translation was finished the two chiefs seemed reluctant to leave the missionary. "Have you any questions to ask, my friends?" eaid he. "None," was the answer; "but we wish to tell yon that we are converted to the religion of that book. We have lived in ignorance and been led by blind guides. We have read those books which tell ua about the religion of your country, but the more we read them, the less we understood them, and the more empty our hearts became. But in reading this book about Jesus it is very different. The more we read hia words the Detter we understand them. It seems as though he himself were talking to us. Now we know how to get our sins pardoned, and where to find the help we need in serving him." Eras of great culture and material prosperity have a very seamy side as the highest mountain throws the longest ehadow. I grant, says one, that there are men and women who eing poetry and live prose; wheelbarrow Christians, whonever go without being pushed, and who are very easily upset. An esteemed contemporary remarks upon a new version of a portion of Genesis found in a modern infidel production, to this effect: "Soman created god in his own image; in the image of man created he him; male and female created he them;" and admits that this atrocious caricature expresses an undeniable truth, both theoretical and practical. Aa an actual fact, all the ethnic religious are man-made, and they bear ihe distinct traces of their maker's handiwork. Their gods are simply deifications of men, and often of tbe worst features of human nature. Thediflerent tribes have made their own gods, and nowhere more distinctly than in the mythology of Greece and Home. Jupiter and Juno and Mercury and Minerva and Venus are simply what their worshipers thought they ought to bo. In the scriptures alone do we find the true and reasonable doctrine set forth that God made man in his own image, and that

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man by ein marred and defaced this imaga a fact which accounts for tho amazioff distance between the holy Creator anc the unholy creature. "Touchy" persons abound. And they are uncomfortable persons to themselvef and to others. Take them in tbe home, they put everybody under constraint and create a cold and cautious atmosphere is which the chances of imaginary oMonsei are indefinitely increase !. Take I hem in the church; they occupy precious time and exhaust strength which should b used in promoting the good cause, and force pastor and officers to cuddle and "manage" them. Sometimes it ia temperament, oftener it is indigestion, or an undue sense of self-importance, which is manifested in touchiness. With the best intentions in ths world innocent people lind their loquacity or their taciturnity, ts the cas may be tortured into insult by these "touchy'' nuisances. Their life is nL-htinared by their jealousies and suspicions; work ia hindered, aud honest folks are kept busy in repairing the mi-takos of this wrongheaded and wrong-hearted cists. Don't be "touchy." As our body cats a shadow, so does out character cast an influence. As a shadow may be either healing or hurtful, so does influence either bless or damn. Carlo Marfijn. There is a saintliness of the hawk, of the exchange, of the court of justice, of the newspaper and of parliament, an well as of the cloister; a saintlineas of the laboratory, the studio and the university, as well as of the church; a taintliiiegd cf the merchant, of the manufacturer, the tradesman, and the mechanic, as well ua of the preacher or the apostle. IL W. Dle. We must be very sure that God's canst is ours beforo we can Le sure that our cauee ia his. Macliirt . It is hard to begin to trust when in the grip of calamity, but feet accustomed to the road to God can find it in the dark. V. The older I grow the more I am confirmed in mv faith and religion I have been in public life lifty-eight yeara and far forty-seven vears in the cabinet of the British government, find during these forty seven year I have been associated with sixty of ttie master minds of the country, and all but five of the sixty weie Cnristians. (HaJsianr. Contemplate the love of Christ and you will love. Stand before that mirror, reflect Christ's character and you will be changed into the same image, from tenderness to tendemt-B?. Hairy Drmitiuuvd. Despondency is not a etate of humility. On the contrary it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride; nothing is worse. Whether we stumble or whether we fall we must only think of rising again and going on our course. V,(, Ai. Tho manly way is to treat lightly the judgments pass-d on us by others, but to be honorably sensitive about the judgments we are compelled to pass on curselves. Ja Mr Nalkcr. Peace is the eentinel which keeps the mind and heart through Jesus Christ. Jh'ntinjtou. We have been assured, remarks tbe Jut, rior, that no one can become a true kindergartner who has not the spirit of Christ. Frocbel taught as his most essential principle that all the faculties inu.-l be developed by self activity. His chief merit lay. not in his having insisted on self activity, for that had been urged before, but in his recognition of those aspirations which make man a religious being. He held that to get a full-orbed man it is not enough to train his body and hia reason ; his religious nature, as well, must be developed and accordingly in tbe kindergarten as it is now conducted, the teaching ia in a large measure ethical and religious. The great facts, God and duty, are by story, song and symbol, brought to mind peculiarly susceptible to such truths. The effect rd this teaching is marked. Pupiis going from the kindergarten to other echools become at once noticeable by their superiority in conduct and capacity. Yielding these results, it is at once apparent that Froebel's system is a social force, capable, if given free -play, of revolutionizing society. The Rev. Dr. Taton of the New Hebrides, to whom we referred last week, has gone to Washington on a peculiar errand to pursuade our government to join France and England in suppressing the trade in firearms, intoxicants and opium in tho Pacific islands. Think of it! exclaims Dr. T. L. Cuyler, a lot of cannibals begging a "Christian" government not to send them any more muskets and rum. Ships sail from American ports with missionaries as passengers and rum in their cargo. Heaven goes in the ship's cabin and hell in the ship's hold. How long will it take us to convert the heathea in this style. In the Contanporary Juriac there ia an interesting article by the poet's niece and words on Tennyeon's religion. The lady reports him as saying on one occasion that "tbe spread of agnosticism and unbelief of all kinds seems to show that there is an evil time at hand. If God were to withdraw Himself from the world around ua and within us but for au instant every atom of creation, both animate and inanimate, would come utterly to naught, for in Him alone do all beiogs and things exist." Again, in referring to Jesus, Tennyson said: "We are all sons of God, but one alone is worthy to be called the Son of man, the representative of the whole of humanity. That, to my mind, is the diviner title of the two. for none dare to apply to himself thin title save Jesus Christ." And the writer of the article asserts that it distressed Tennyson exceedingly to have the divinity of Christ aesaiied. There is nothing specially new in thia expose, for Tennyson's poetry is steeped in the Christian spirit, and his reverence and faith and belief in prayer are manieeted on every page.