Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1893 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAYl MORNING, JUNE 7, 1893 TWELVE PAGES.

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

llfitmilaitLePcatomreatta.nanapous a acond tlMBiititr.l TFlOl! l'EIC YKAKt Elrfle ejT (InTariaMy in Advance.) 1 OO W -k t5m.rrat. to tar in minJ and eiert thMr ewe state pnj-vr when they ccuia to take ubscrip. t:c es and K.ako up clubs. .Arnts making up clubs 8rnl for anr Information iffcirtil. ZddtwTUL IS WAN A TOMS SLNTISLL loilianapdlit. In.L JWELVE PAGES. WEDNESDAY, JENE 7, IS 33. The crop indications are growing more favorable every day. Notwithstanding the cold and aevere storms which have prevailed at intervals for many weeks past there is every reason to feel assured that Indiana will be in the front rank once aain when the harvests are gathered. Now look out for a howl from the penlion sharks. Secretary Smith has expressed a doubt that a man should draw a pension for tho possession of two corns. Som: crank with corns is likely to immediately demand that Providence immediately smite Mr. Smith with profuse and painful corns. It is hinted that President Jordan will retire as president of Stanford university because of a disagreement with Senator Stanford as to the management of the institution. Details are not known, but it is supposed that the professor didn't give enough attention to viniculture and the inbreeding of trotting bosses. The announcement is made that the Iron masters aroupd Pittsburg will all be compelled to reduce wages in order to compete not with the product of foreign pauper labor, but with the labor which Andrew Carnegie has pauperized by blood and bullet and starvation. This is the man whom protection has made a multi-millionaire, and protection has been maintained for his benefit by the votes of American workingmen. No wonder they voted last fall that protection must go. Governor Matthews ehould, and we presume will, appoint to the supreme bench to succeed Judge Olds the very best democratic lawyer who will consent to accept the position. A man is wanted for this post who combines fine natural abilitywith rood legal attainments, wide experience and unquestioned integrity. The governor will certainly not give serious consideration to the "claims" of any one-horse politiclta or cheap lawyer in this connection, however persiste ntly they may be pressed. Ix the light of recent developments it Vouldseem that the late Mr. Ctlue.tson of New Albany did a pretty sensible thing in prohibiting the marriage of his daughter to Leigh French. If all tho stories told of the latter aro even half true French is a thoroughbred all round scoundrel. If Miss Cclbektson- has the ordinary Indiana horse sense she will iorego her eilorts to break the old man's will and hunt up some man on whom to beBtow her affections who will at least be worthy of the money. The selection of Mr. Alexander Johnson as Superintendent of the home for feeble-minded children is one well calculated to restore public confidence in that institution after the recent deplorable occurrences there. Mr. Johnson has performed the duties of secretary of the etate board of charities duties requiring splendid abilities and untiring energy with eminent satisfaction to the public and distinguished credit to himself. In Lis new position The Sentinel feel ft assured he will acquit himeelf with honor and add to the reputation be has already earned in charitable work. t 3tm impossible to euppreaa the native joyousness of Denver. Notwithstanding the run on her savings banks thirteen of her prominent young men enter a waltzing contest, and eleven of them have to be Btcpped by the police after waltzing continuously for seventeen and one-half hours. The other two gave out after breaking the world's record of sixteen hours. This not only shows a happy mental condition in Denver eociety.but also indicates that the national effort at physical culture is not in vain. These yonng gentlemen have already developed the leg, talent necessary for a successful introduction to journalism. Another Indiana farmer was swindled again last week. lie is described as a ehrs?rd, educated man living in Monroe county, a section that boasts of a university and its full complement of public and private schools. A sharper i&untered through the county, met the farmer, sold him a piece of property that he did not own for $4,5TjO. It waa a valuable stone quarry that somebody else had the deed (or and worth $10,000. The swindler pocksted the $4,500 and left for new swindling 5elda. Only a little precaution on the part of this shrewd ( ?) farmer might have saved him 14,500 and probably many sleepless nights and wide-awake days that he employed in the pastime of what the ioys call "kicking himself." Ben Bcttebworth has startled his party Vgain by telling a little plain troth in a very impressive way. In his Memorial day speech at the soldiers' home cemetery in Washington he said: We have indeed tried, as urged by Linc oln' at Gettysburg, lo bind op the nation's wounds and to care for those who bore the heat and burden of battle, and lor thsir widows and orphans. In that our people have nobly kept the faith. And here I am impressed to pause and lay that we can not heal the nation's wound by availing ourselves of every opportunity to tear those wounds afresh. That we have seriously blundered in marly things the future historian will, in my judgment, affirm, although the politician may dissent. For instance, at the close cf the war We Lad within the insurrectionary border nearly 4.000, GOO of recently liberated slaves. Their liberation, whether prompted by military necessity or tbe higher behests of humanity, was just, but no one will contend that any considerable number of them hal any full and just conception of the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, and a vastly less number had any idea of the functions of government. Yet they, naprepared as they were and hapless as it left them, were clothed with the ballot, ostensibly as a measure of self-defense and common justice to them, but really and actually as a partisan measure. The result waa the inauguration of m conflict

of races, growing out of a race for supremacy in certain states, in which conflict the national government proved powerless to protect the oppredaed or punish the oppressor. When the end of this shall come, and in what manner and with what result, presents a serious problem, the solution of which is by no means clear. This plain talic has caused a great deal of comment in Washington, and republican politicians criticise it severely. Neirro Inclusion. V J. J. In;ms id nothing if not picturesque. Throughout his publio career he has posed. Ho has made it a point to seek out some question sensational in character and take a position on it that will bring him well into view, just aa some persons like tobe photographed on some famous rock, or in connection with Niagara falls, or wrapped in the American flag. One of his great specialties was jumping on Jekk Davis, lie practiced this at stated intervals for a number of years. He seemed to imagine that Mr. Davis was a sort of spring-board, by means of which he could bound into public favor. And he was right to a certain extent. The people of Kansas were highly diverted by that sort of thing until they got to burning corn for fuel, and then it suddenly occurred to them that Mr. Davis was a back number. In order to avoid separating Mr. In; ALL from the man of his choice they mado him a back number also. This waa in the nature of a surprise to Mr. Ix(tALLH, Nevertheless it did not change his nature. He remains as picturesque and startling us ever. John J.'s latest spectacular exhibition is on the negro question. He has arrived at the conclusion that the negro must be expelled from the country. He says: . If this condition is the inevitable consequence of the contact of the two races, separation, voluntary or compulsory, at whatever cost, is the dictate of wisdotc, morality and national safety. If reconciliation upon the basis of justice and equal rights is impossible then migration to Africa should be tbe policy of the future. To that fertile continent from whence they came they would return, not as aliens and strangers, but to the manner born. To their savage kindred who still swarm in its solitudes they would bring the alphabet, the declaration oi independence and the bible. Emancipated from tbe traditions of bondage, from the habit of obedience and imitation, trom the knowledge of its vices, which is the only instruction of a strong raco to a weaker, the African might develop along his axis of growth and Ethiopia stretch out her hand to God. The negro might not want to go. He is a native. He is a citizen. He has a right to stay. So ne has the right to vote, lie has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He has been deprived of them all. Only the right of domicile remains. He could, perhaps, submit to the loss of this with tue same resiguation which has accompanied his surrender of the reat. The condition to which he refers is an imaginary one which he has developed from the recesses of his fevered brain. Because a negro is occasionally lynched for an aggravated crimo, Mr. Inoalls eays that the negroes have been deprived of their right to life. He sees in a piece of lawlessness of that sort a conclusive evidence that the white man looks on the negro with murder in his heart, and that the negro race in this country might as well be considered exterminated forthwith. If in fact the negro has been deprived of the right to life, as he says, why waste any time in the consideration of sending him to Africa? Why not bury him at once and be done with it? Mr. Inoalls says that tho negro has been deprived of the right to "liberty and the pursuit to happiness" because he is not allowed to vote in the South. Most Americans have learned by this time that this is not true. There is undoubtedly conciderable fraud in elections in the South, as there is in the North, and it is largc'-v 4.ae the sentiments of people rn berwre that "purity in politics is an irridescent dream." There were over 1,350,000 republican votes cast in the former slave states in 1SSS, and it would seem from this that there are still a few negroes voting in the South. Mr. Harrison went into office with the avowed purpose of protecting their rights, and if we may judge from enthusiastic support which they cave him in the last national convention he endeavored to carry out his policy. The negro certainly retains his political rights in republican conventions if in no other place. The greatest "disfranchisement" of the negro in the South is accomplished, just as the disfranchisement of white democrats is accomplished in republican states, by the gerrymander. He is also made an easy victim to political trickery by his ignorance. But it may be accepted as a fact that aav difference in the fairness of elections North and South is merely a matter of opportunity. Conceding that the negro is mistreated to some extent, and he is not more so than any other inferior race Indian, Chinese, Mexican with which we have come in contact, the question arises, why should we mistreat him further by banishing him as Mr. Ingalls proposes? It is not a question of "might not want to go." The negroes do not want to go. They prefer this country with all their alleged mistreatment to the wilds of Africa. We have a "negro colony" ia that country. We have had an American colonization society for years,' and the number of negroes it has induced to emigrate furnishes no reasonable excuse for its existence. The sensible solution of the negro question is to pet it out of politics. When the time comes, and it is coming rapidly, when political lines are not drawn on race boundaries, the negro question will take care of ite.elf. Whatever troubles the negro has are more due to political bitterness, both on his own part and on the part of others, than to race bitterness.

Freedom of Conscience. There waa one point at which The Sentinel had always considered itself free from any danger of attack, and tbat is its religious character. Standing as it has on the plane of the highest morality, and always a conspicuous example to its more or less erring contemporaries, it had never anticipated that any one could be so depraved aa to question its ideas of propriety or insinuate that its religious views were errant. Such an assault necessarily arises from the mistaken and utterly unfounded views of the assailant, or from the inherent depravity of his nature. Tbe chief religious tenet of The Sentinel is freedom of conscience. That is one of the i

moet essential branches of American liberty. Our creed, on this point, is very ably propounded in the constitution of Indiana, in the first article, commonly known as the bill of rights, thus: Sec. 2. All men shall be secured in their natural rhiht to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences. Sec. 3. No law shall, in any case whatever, control the free exercise and enjoyment ot religious opinions, or interfere with the rights of conscience. Sec. 4. No preference shall be given by law to any crowd, religious society or mode of worship; and no man shall be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent. Sec. 5. No religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office of trust or profit. Sec. 0. No money hall be drawn from the treasury for the benefit of any religious or theological institution. Sec. 7. No person snail be rendered incompetent as a witness, in consequence of his opinion on matters of religion. In addition to these there is another proposition, which is a sort of corollary of these, and which may be formulated thus: No person ought to introduce religion into the consideration of political or governmental affairs, or to wilfully misrepresent the religion of others. It is obvious, or should be, to any person of ordinary intelligence that either of these last-named acts is a violation of the spirit of the sections of the constitution quoted, and especially of sec. 5. Now, here comes an alleged ex-priest and charges the catholic church with being responsible for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This is an insult to the intelligence of the community, and The Sentinel promptly says so, whereupon this personage coolly replies that there was "popery in the ink-bottle" when it was written. There may easily be worse things in an ink-bottle than "popery," but that is immaterial. What was in the ink-bottle was fairness, and honesty, and common decency. There was in it a faith that the American public believes in fair play, and a profound conviction that nothing is to be gained by stirring up religious dissensions. Freedom of conscience implies not only that a man shall have liberty, but that he shall permit others to have the same liberty that he enjoys. If the religious ideas of others do not suit you, just bear in mind that your religious ideas do not suit them. It is a free country. Let others believe according to their consciences without abusing and insulting them. The world has been a long time in growing out of the notion that a man can advance his own salvation by mistreating others of different faith, and no one is doing service to the public by urging it back to that delusion. Dr. Holmes preaches a much more sensible and attractive religioo in hid great hymn; Not ly the litfhtniu -la'i:s of wrath Our fouls Thy facj shall s8, Tbe star of love must lii(lit tli path Tiiat leads to licavea uud 1 hie.

As to tho Hank of France. A few days ago The Sentinel mentioned as a somewhat remarkable fact that the Bank of 1 ranee had more gold than the national banks of England and Germany combined. The esteemed Evaneville Cucrür informs us that there is nothing remarkable about it, and kindly gives the following explanation: The Bank of France maintains perfect parity between gold and shver at a ratio of l."4 to 1 by the common sense plan of making silver protect its gold reserve bypaying out silver when there is an unusual run on its gold. The notes of the Bank of France, like those signed by the treasury department of the I'nited States, are payable in "coin," and the Pank of France takes advantage of the option reserved to the issuer of the notes and pays nut silver whenever and as of ten aa ii is uecessary to protect tbe gold reserve. When the monetary conference was in session last year Senator Jones of Nevada, a member of the commission appointed by President Harrison, asserted that he was personally cognizant of an instance, tben of recent occurrence, where a eyndicate had given a draft for 1,000.000 francs on tbe Hank of France, which tbe bank refused to cash in any other way than half gold and half silver, and the senator declared that to be the uniform practice of the Hank of France. It seems so obvious that by no other method can silver and gold be kept in circulation side by side that the imbecile practice of the treasury department under Hariu.mn, still adhered to under President Cleveland, is a constant source of wonder. The Sentinel always welcomes information as to the conduct of a Hairs of foreign countries, because of the difficulty of obtaining reliable information of that character. It is usually hard enough to learn what is being done in this country, let alone foreign lands. We would be under additional obligations if tho Courier would explain one or two points more in this connection. As the Bank of France is a bauk of discount and deposit, what connection is there between its rules as to cashing drafts and its custom, or our custom, as to redeeming paper currency? Any bank in this country uses its discretion aa to the kind of legal tender in which it pays drafts, deposits or any other debts, but because the Bank of France does this is no evidence that it refuses gold for its bank notes when presented for redemption. In fact we would be grateful if the Courier would furnish its authority for this statement, because in a speech in the senate on April 20, 1892, Mr. Teller, who is a very good silver man, declared that France made no effort whatever to hoard gold, and even went to the extreme of paying gold for foreign silver coin at par. He said: She haa $120,000,000 of silver belonging to other people. She has had tbe opportunity for five years to take gold for this ? 120.OUO.000 at the French ratio of 15J to 1, which she ha declined, in the interest of commerce and trade and humanity, to take. She keeps it and circulates it aa money. While it does not bear her imprint, yet she makes it good to the people, because ehe says you bring it to uh and we will give you French money.tyoM or filter, a yon with, and she declines to exchange it for gold with the countries whose stamp it bears. Of course Mr. Teller may have been mistaken about this, but neither Mr. Stewart of Nevada, who occasionally offered a suggestion during the speech, nor any other senator offered any correction. Mr. Teller further declared that it had always been the policy of France to send "dear money" abroad; that ehe had sent silver to India when it was at a premium, and that sbe was sending gold in the same way now. Ilia words were: She sent her dear money to India as today sbe is sending her dear gold to England to buy council-bills, and thus she makes the dear money that she possesses bring a groater amount of imports than

she could with her cheaper money cheaper only in Great Britain, not cheaper in France. With such statements standing unquestioned before ua it was perhaps pardonable that France's preponderance of gold seemed remarkable, and even yet, notwithstanding . the Couri-r'x explanation, when we consider that both Germany and England have made a special of accumulating gold, it does seem somewhat remarkable that France should have more than both of them combined. 1 he Ilriggs Case. During the long and exciting trial of Dr. Briggs The Sentinel has carefully refrained from any expression of opinion that might in any way prejudice his case, but now that he is convicted and in a fair way to be sentenced it seems the clear path of duty to eay thai we have cot the slightest idea whether he is guilty or not, or of what he is guilty, or what punishment should be inflicted upon him for his crimes. In most of the cases of heresy that have attained celebrity there was something like uuanimity in the decision of tbe high joint committee that was in power. When Galileo was tried for claiming tbat the sun did not revolve about the eatth the teaching of the scriptures was shown to be conclusive and the judges agreed as to his guilt. Indeed, so thoroughgoing was this trial that Galileo himself was satisfied of his own guilt and moved to make the nomination unanimous. He also withdrew his offensive remarks and permitted the sun to contiuue in its former course without mo-

I Iestation. In this case, however, Bkiggs insists that he is teaching the simon-pure presbyterianism and his accusers are the heretics, and as nearly one-fourth of the convention is with him it is doubtful whether he is actually guilty or whether he merely got whipsawed in the primaries that selected the delegates. But prima facie he is guilty, and the next question is, What are you going to do about it? As we understand it he is guilty of differing in some respects from the proclaimed views of the church, or at lean from the interpretation that the majority put on those views. In such cases it is sometimes best to change the views. It may be remembered that when Coi.oim s was desirous of going in search of a new world, the bishops of Spain were called in to give their opinion. Thev unanimously agreed that it was contrary to tbe ecriptures that another world could exist, and one of their chief reasons was that if it existed the inhabitants would have been denied any access to salvation, which was a reflection on the infinite goodness of tbe creator, and therefore heretical. But when the new world was found the bishops promptly came over to the ideas of CoLi Miu s, which was a very sensible thing for them to do. If anyone should come alongnowand claim that it was wrong for Providence to permit the new world to exist for li'YI years without any call to christianitv he would be pronounced heretical just as Coi.rsna s was for intimating that the same thing was right. The great difficulty as to this case appears to lie in the utter impossibility of determining whether Bkiggs is right or wrong in his theories. There is no way now of determining whether Isaiah wrote the book of Isaiah any more than of determining whether Homer wrote Homer. Neither can there bo a determining oi the juestion' of "progressive eanctitication." Briggs claims that the redeemed keep on sanctifying perpetually, and the majority are of the opinion that they can never be any holier than they are. or rather than they will be when they lay aside the tenement of clay that burdens them. This is a hard question. If Brother Wanamakkk, for instance, should lay aside his mortal frame, bis bargain counter and his political alliances, he would probably be bard to improve on, and yet much may be expected from the purifying power of divine grace and good society. Obviously one side or the other is wrong, and when the mistaken parties roach the home of the blessed, and learn definitely that they have been persecuting the saints, they will be in a very humiliating situation. It strikes us that the safest plan for all parties concerned would be to postpone this question indefinitely. Ahl for Wheat Kaisers. On Monday wheat touched the lowest point it has reached since the war with one exception. This is a suggestive fact. It cannot be credited to a lack of intrinsic value in wheat. There ha-j been no inflation of wheat grains. They contain just as much nutriment as ever, and just aa much in proportion to their weight. So far as known there is no lack of confidence in wheat. People have just as high regard for it a9 they have had in years by gone. Neither is there any cheapening of production that could account for it. There is no very recent improvement in cultivation that would materially reduce the general labor cost, and no advance in fertilization that would materially afTect the general product of land. Neither haa there been any specific discrimination of law against this grain. On the contrary the McKinley bill increased the duty on wheat 5 cents per bushel in order to protect the American tarmer against tbe luinous competition of foreign grangers. What is the matter with wheat, anyway? Like silver, it shows a tendency to depreciate in value in the face of every natural reason lor not doing so. Can it be possible that the decline is really due to an advance in that by which value is measured? Ia it another evidence - of Prof. Taussig's proposition that "the appreciation of gold and the depreciation of commodities are one and the same thing?" Is there not also in this fact of the decline of wheat an urgent call for eome remedy? The republican party, after carefully considering the decline in value of silver, decided that the best way to stop the decline wis to create an artificial market for the metal. The populists advance the same plan for upholding the value of grain. ' Both propose tbe purch ase of the commodity and the issuance of paper money based on the deposits of the goods in government warehouses. The republican plan waa adopted and the populist plan rejected. Was this just? As an impartial objector to both plans, can the democratic party consistently retain the republican silver law and not adopt the populist wheat law? There is no apparent reason whv the owner of silver mines should be provided with an artificial market for his commodity while the same ia refused for tha commodity of

the farmer. It is palpably unjust that this discrimination should be made against the farmer, and Tiik sentinel insists that if the protective policy ia to be maintained in the one case it shall also be maintained in the other. Either repeal the Sherman law or enact a sub-treasury bill. There is another discrimination that needs attention. Under the McKinley law the Amercan producer of sugar receives a bounty of 2 cents per pound, while the producer of wheat receives nothing. As was clearly demonstrated by Governor Hogg in his veto megsage.quotedin our columns a few days since, the sugar bounty ia not excusable on any ground of necessity. The crop pays a reasonable profit independent of the bounty, and is almost wholly controlled by wealthy planters who are not entitled to aid as objects of charity. Why should bounty be given to them and none be given to the producers of wheat? What justice ia there in any euch discrimination against the northern farmer? Evidently the interest of the farmer is to 6tand for equality of rights and insist either on a bounty to wheat producers or a repeal of tbe sugar bounty. And not only the farmers but also every other class of American citizens will rind it advantageous to stand by the democratic principle of "Equal rights to all ; special privileges to none."

Free Plate Glass. If there ever was such a thing as add ing insult to injury it has been successfully accomplished by "a prominent official" of the Diamond plate glass works of Elwood and Kokomo. At least it is committed in the name of 6uch personage, for he is reported as saying: We have nearly SGOO.OOO worth of plate glass in stock, and owing to the uncertainty that exists concerning the financial policy of the government we are at a loss to know what to do. There is no demand for plate glass now owing to this cause. The people are distrustlul of the financial theories of the democra ic party. Five of the ten plate glass concerns have closed down already, and the others will do so in a few days. We will eimpiy get in out of the way of the threatened disaster and it is our purpose to remain closed until the uncertainty At present pervading the financial world is cleared away. As a matter of fact the Diamond plate glass works has been taken into the plate ,'lass trust, which now controls ail the factories but two in the country, and has been ehut down for the purpose of limiting production and increasing the price of plate glass to American consumers. Going into an unlawful combination is bad enough. Throwinj workmen out of employment is bad enough. Forcing up the price of an useful commodity is bad enough. But to add to all these, a llagrant fa'so statement of the cauee for political purposes is simply infamous. It is useless to talk about regulating a tarifTaccording to the "needs" of manufacturers who are guilty of such things as this. The only wav to deal justly with them is to wipe out the tariff altogether. Remove all "uncertainty" from the subject and let them understand clearly and distinctly that they are entitled to foreign competition and that they will get it. The McKinley bill gives them a protection of from 5 to 50 cents per square foot. Wipe it out. From this time forward The Sentinel favors free plate glass. ET CETERA. President Ci.evei. nd has accepted an invitation to attend the celebration of tho twenly-iifth anniversary of Cornell university next October. Mas. Hayes, in the Ilowivtn, saya her pouy, Freddie, 'can tell when ehe is tioiu to tbe hospital by seeing her put books and llowera in the carriage. A pocri.AR Kentucky souvenir spoon represents a race track, a statue of Mary Anderson and a barrel of whisky entwined with tobacco leaves. There is an old Mexican law which prohibits a ninth marriage. A much-married American, in ignorance of the law, violated it, and is now in jail in Col im a. Prince Leocoi.d of Isenburg-Binstein, who is visiting tho world's fair, is famous as a tiger hunter in Germany. One of his castles is filled with hunting trophies. D. E. Barnim of Amsterdam, N. Y., has juEt made tho cheerful discovery that he was left S"8.(N0 by the will of the late l'hiueas T. Barnum, who was his cousin. Dievad Pasha, the grand vizier of Turkey, refuses to keep a harem. He has but one wife, who, ever Bince he married her many years ago, has possessed his undivided affection. Mi.s. I'i:o tor, widow of Richard II. Broctor, the astronomer, and the principal a-siaiaut in his professional work, has been appointed curator of the Proctor observatory at San Diego. Loi.it Shannon of England is known among his friends as the "Cowboy Peer." Ho was employed as a cowboy on a ranch in Manitoba for several ye.ira before he inherited his title and estates. Gen. William M aiione of Virginia has permanently retired from politics, leaving tho icpublicana of that state without a leader. He is quite wealthy, and says that public life has no rewards nor temptations for him. As Poi k Leo grows older he seems to be more and more favorable to republican institutions. In an audience which he granted last Thursday to V'icomte Vogue at the Vatican he affirmed in more forcible lauguage than ever bis views in favor ot the French republic and of democratic governments in general. It is consoling to the people in humble station to know that royalty sutlers from the same physical ills that plebeian flosh is heir to. Here is the Princess Waldemar of Denmark confined to ttie house because, iu treating a vulgar corn with nitric acid, she produced an inflammation that threatened to be dangerous. When Mine. Blavatsky'a body was cremated two years ago the ashes were divided into three parts, the American, European and Indian sections of the Theosophica! society being awarded a portion. An onyx casket, containing the American share, was recently placed in view of the faithful at a meeting of the American section in New York. The Fernandez family of New York are just now attracting considerable attention on account of their peculiar advanced theosophist views. They claim that they are a reincarnated family. They all remember events of their former lives and talk freely of them. One of the children, Victor, a lad of only nine years of age, says tbat be has eeen toys that he had while he was on earth as his former self. Avoid hard purgative pills. They make you sick and tben leave you constipated. Carter's Little Liver Pills regulate the bowels and cure too.

o3UNDAY THOUGHTS! MORALS? MANNERS

IV A LF.RQYMA5. The trial of Trof. Briggs by the genera assembly of the presbyterian church now in session at Washington has had one wholesome effect that of stirring thought within and without ecclesiastical circles. 'Tis the most difficult thing in the world to discriminate and the most needful. Without diecuesing the pros and cons in the case of the reverend professor who Stands accused of heresy it should be remembered that development is not denial. The man of twenty-one is not antagonistic to the infant in the cradle twenty years earlier. A ripe apple in October is not antagonistic to tho apple blossom in May. What has occurred in these cases? An evolution nothing more. If men will think they must pay the penalty ot thinking thinking finds itself in mental growth. When one has thought himself outside of those religious environments in which he was at the start, intellectual honesty demands that he shall take himselt where his thought is outside. But sometimes a present position is quite consistent with an old environment. The change between now and then may be great, but it may be a change of mere development the infant come of age, or the apple blossom ripened into an apple. In this case it would be absurd either to demand or to expect a demission ot place and privilege if a thoughtful and conscientious theologian feels that he is in essential agreements with the standards of his church, and believes in those things which his church regards as central, it should seem that he might be eafely and wisely indulged in certain changes of conception regarding pointä, which, however important, are nevertheless non-essential iu character. A practical recognition of this distinction would empty the ahot pouches of manv ecclesiastical Nimrods. The churches would stop hunting heretics and the heretics would also stop hunting the churches. These ortbodox folkof the higher criticism type, who contend that the bible is not the word of God but only contains the word of God, and who would have us be iieve that errors in science and history are consistent with reliability in religion, ask a little too much. Intelligent people will ask in reply: How can we accept the teachings of a book as infallible in matters beyond our ken which breaks down w here dear tests are applied to its utternnces in matters which are within our cognizance? We leave the higher critics to wrestle with this puzzler. For ourselves, we are free to say it is the whole bible or none. A book which lies in science or history cannot be trusted in morals, if its accounts of earth are amiss, how shall we rely upon its descriptions of heaven? The 1-ible is all right; tbe critics are all wrong. "Artists like lbeen," says William Watson, in his "Excursions in Criticism," "turn the house of life into a moral hospital and see nothing in men and women but interesting 'cases.' " The maidens of Vienna have started a Spinster club, according to the New York S'ni, with tho avowed object of bringing about the speedy and happy marriage of its members. Upon this our luminous contemporary makes two remarks. First, how is one Fpinster to tell another how to bring liarkia to a proper state of willingness? A eixteen-year-old girl in her bridal veil, with a bright new riny: under her wedding ylove. knows more about the pbilosopby of getting a hueband than the whole body politic oi worthy and intellectual M insterhood. Secondly, who ever anew a man to wans what he knew ho could have as well as not? It ia the fruit on the topmost limb, not that on the lower branch, that a man risks his life for. If Helen of Troy and Cleopatra of Egypt had united with any syndicate of maidens avowing their willingness to enter the holy etate of matrimony the Iliad would never have been written, and Mark Antony might have passed as a model of marital fide.ity. Apropos, we feel constrained to add tbat the Helens and the Cleopatras resist only in order to surrender. Apropos again, we find in the Interior the following recipe lor cooking a husband so as to make him tender and good, presented in the Baltimore cooking school by a lady of experience: "A good many husbands are utterly spoiled by mismansgement. Some women go about it as if their husbands wer bladders and blow them up. Others keep them constantly in hot water. Others let them freeze by their carelessness and inditlerence. Some keep them in a Btew by irritating words or ways. Some roast them. Others, again, keep them in pickle all their lives. It cannot be supposed that any husband will be tender and good managed in these ways, but they re really delicious when properly treated. "In selecting a husband you ehould not be guided by the silvery appearance, as in buying a mackerel, nor by a golden tint, as if you wanted salmon. Be sure to select him youree f, as tastes differ. Do not go to market for him, as the best are always brought to your door. It is far better to have none unless you will patiently learn how to cook for him. A preserving kettle of finest porcelain is best, but if you have nothing but an earthenware pipkin, it will do, with care. See that the linen in which you'.wrap him is nicely washed and mended with the required number of buttons and strings sewed on. "Tie him in the kettle by a strong eilken cord called comfort, as the one called duty is apt to be weak, no that the husband may flop out of the kettle and be burned and crusty on the edges, as husbands, like crabs and loDsters, have to be cooked alive. Make a clear, steady lire out of cheerfulness, neatness and love. Let him as near these as seem to agree with him. If he sputters and fizzes do not be anxious; some do this until they are quite done. Add

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And now come the doctors and tell us that genius is a disease "an irritation of the nervous system." Well, who would not rather be fick with Socrates than well with the multitude? We are assured that genius is akin to maine. All right, but who wouldn't prefer to be crazy like Shakespeare rather than sane with the "madding crowd?" The general assembly of the presbytcrians this year is said to be "true blue" in its orthodoxy. Ii may be eo "blue"' that th the wholo denomination will be thronu into the dumps. Birds that eosr highest fly safest, 'Tis bo with man. Those whose hearts are in heaven walk firmest on earth. In the I'riacher'g Maji;ie for June an English clergyman reminds us that George Eliot (that gified woman whose life would have been happier and less deformed bad she clung to the single faith of her earlier years) 4;ave currency to a phrase which is not likely to die. She spoke of the "other worldlinees" of Christian people. By this she meant that Christian pei; le were eo busy thinking of heaven, and getting ready for it. that they had no time to pare for the concerns ot this world. There is an I dement of truth in this. If jou deuied it, some of our most popular hymns would contradict the denial hymns in which life here is described as a joyless journey through a barren desert, during which the only laudable ambition must by to get through it as quickly as possible. Some forms of current theology avoid this doctrine in so many words, and appear to get a sort of ltigubri&us satisfaction out of it. There is a kind of theology which seems to correspond with Buskin's theory of a railway station. He J eays tbat ornamentation is entirely out cf J place in a railway station, because the only thing that it is good for is to heiß you get away from it as soon as potsiLle. As a rule, however, "other worldlinesa' has not been the fault of Christian. Worldliness is the prevailing epidemic. We take our names from Christ and our ideals from the fenate, the market place and "society." We cry "good Ixird" a Sunday and "good devil" the rest of the week. We keep the doors of the Lord's house with attendance (when convenient and subscriptions and dwell in the tenis of wickednes. io to, (ieore Eliot! You may describe England in your phrase about "other world. inees," but the shoe doesn't pinch many feet in thia town, nr does tho coat tit many backs not evea among tbe clergy or the elders. We agree with Prof. Drummond that the desideratum today is not more Christians, but better Christians. We want not less faith, but mere works. There if too much profession and too little practice. It is not worth while to be religious at all unless we are altogether religious. Playing at religion is dreary work. He who seeks the kingdom of God not "first," as Jesus commanded, but second, does cot really etek it at all. Both worlds are spoiled to him. He haa neither the cream of tbe one nor ot the other. His religion spoils hia enjoyment of, the world, and his worldliness ruins his enjoyment of religion. To tbe I.aoJictans Christ comes and Eays: "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot; I would ttiou wert cold or bot. (io, then, because thou art neither cold nor hot, I will tpew thee out of my mouth." The Christian church came into existence in the apostolic days as an outgrowth of and aid to evangelism. The synagogue suggested its lorui. Its purpose was the promotion of fellowship ; tbe edification of its members, tbat is, their growth in gract and doctrine; and tne creation of a moral atmosphere in which they might live and move and have their being an atmosphere as friendly asthatwhich prevailed in those times was unfriendly. Into a series of local societies w ith theie aims those natural gatherings of the disciples soon developed. Ero long these local societies were confederate the churches became a church. The primitive objects of the church, whether locally considered or viewed as a united whole, have not changed in the lapse of time. It is the edification of believers and the discipling of the world that ehould freight its prayers and inspire its labor. And "lo," bays Christ, "I am with you always." MitlW lent lj Tough. IStrtet i Smith' lool Nen-i.J Aspiring Youth "You advertised for a college graduate to asnist you." Publisher "Yea. Did vou ever play loot bad?" "I'm yes thousands of times." "You'll do. We want a man to peddle books." A irowintI Hrtit. IN. Y. Vek!r. She Con tho train) "When we were on our wedding tour, three months ago. you sat by my side during the whole journey: but now, tho moment wh are Beated. you want to rush olf to the pmoking car." He "Well-er the smoking habit grows as one growa older." Correcting the IMitor. The Georgia editor wrote: "Let the galled jade wince." But the printer, who wasn't familiar with the phrase, thought the old man hail made a mi'take, and so ha set it up as it should have been : "Let the gallon jug win." Interested in Atrfcnlture. 1 Binihnni ton l.ea'lrr. "Mv husband is very much interested in agriculture," said Mrs. Heavy wit. "Only last niht he was talking in hia sleep about a fifty cent rake." It I I'ooHkH To send for the doctor every time you don't feel just right. My doctor's bill for years was over a hundred dollars a year, which made a pretty big hole in my wages. For the past two years, 1 only spent ten dollars, with which I bought a dozen bottles of Sulphur Bitters, and health has been in my family i icce usin thsm. lioi.ERT Johnson-, MachiuisU ES) J rvJ