Bloomington Courier, Volume 16, Number 8, Bloomington, Monroe County, 7 December 1889 — Page 2

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THE COURIER.

BY H. J FELTUS.

BLOOMINGTON,

INDIANA

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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. DOMESTIC. Snow fell as far south as Rome, Ga., Thursday. A residence at Athol, Mass., was burglarized of $5,000. The Hartford, Conn., carpet mills burned Friday. Loss, $50,000. A Memphis firm estimates the cotton yield at 7,124.000 bales. Mr. Jefferson Davis continues seriously ill and is unable to take food. Jospehine Welsh accidentally killed her lover white trifiing with a revolver at West Elizabeth, Pa. Mr. Jeff G. McKinney, a leading crimi-

nal lawyer of Milwaukee, was mysteriously sand-bagged. The deadlock of the Montana Legislature still continues, with no indications of a speedy termination. By the action of the Kansas City Council, Monday night, twenty-two square miles of territory were added to the corporate limits of that city. A mysterious explosion occurred in a Newark, N. J., brewery, Tuesday, and caused aloss of $125,000. For a time the streets flowed with beer. The family cat in the household of W. A. Reyburn, at Glen, Pa., went to sleep

upon the face of the three months-old daughter. The child died of suffocation. Warden Brush is preparing for the execution of Charles McElwaine by electricity, which is to take place at Sing Sing

during the week beginning December 9. A young woman in Butler county, Ohio, secured a divorce from her husband, and fell in love with a man who robbed her of $6,500, and deserted her on their wedding day. Samuel Spencer, Tuesday, cut his throat in Albany, N. Y., because he was poor and when he was dead $400 in gold and bank credits for $6,000 were found about him. Judge R. P. Trippe, of Atlanta, Ga., committed suicide, Friday, by blowing out his brains with a double-barreled derringer. The cause of the act was despondency, due to ill health. Four little girls at Elliotsville, West Va., found a keg of powder, Friday, which their father used in his mining pursuits. They exploded the powder and all of them were blown to atoms. The boiler of a Collinswood, La., sugar firm exploded, Sunday, went through the roof and about fifty feet up in the air, and then took a shoot into the woods. The engineer received a slight bruise. Fire destroyed the bake shop of Gustave Gross, in Philadelphia, early Tuesday morning. The family of Mr. Gross lived in the second story, and his wife, four children and Mrs. Annie Bettner were suffocated. J. C. Gilliland, cashier of the Citizens' State Bank, at Selden, Kan., was arrested, Friday, charged with forging mortgages and obtaining loans from Eastern capitalists on them. He was about to leave the State when arrested. During a quarrel over some property on Wednesday night at Fayette, Pa., Isaac Stimmel, aged seventy-two, fatally stabbed his son Andrew, aged twenty-seven, in the

INDIA[N]A STATE NEWS. Angola will have electric light. The Salvation Army has located at Hunt ington. The Brazil miners strike is at last declared off. A snow blockade in northern Indiana delayed many trains, Friday and Saturday. South Bend will make an effort to secure the 1890 encampment of the Indiana Legion. Two men, frozen to death on Thanksgiving, were found near Terre Haute, Monday. The schools in the Fort Wayne Catholic diocese are taught by 177 teachers and are attended by 7,290 pupils. Benjamin F. Duty, who lost a foot while in the employ of the Cerealine Manufacturing Company,of Columbus, has brought suit for $20,000 damages.

While Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Butcher, near Bryant, were temporarily absent from home, leaving their children alone the clothing of two of them caught fire and they wore fatally burned. A new natural gas company is being organized at Noblesville, in opposition to the Noblesville Gas and Improvement Company, now having full sway. Exorbitant

rates is the cause of the opposition. The Billet-bending and Spoke Works, which have just started at Portland, and which give employment to one hundred persons, is claimed to be the most complete establishment of the kind in the country. Representatives of the Evansville & Richmond Railway Company have closed contracts at Greensburg for fifteen acres of ground, on which will be located shops, depot, and other accessories to railway traffic. Elias Heustis, one of the pioneers of Dearborn county, and a resident of Manchester township since 1819, died this week, aged nearly ninety-two. While he lived there was not one older pioneer in the State. There are five new members in the House from Indiana. They are William Parrott, of Evansville; Jason B. Brown, of Seymour; Geo. W. Cooper, of Columbus; E. J. Brookshire, of Crawfordsville; A. N. Martin, of Bluffton, and Charles A. O. McClellan, of Auburn. Miss Nellie Coutant, of Crawfordsville, a graduate of the public schools, was neither absent or tardy during the entire nine years of her attendance, and the school trustees on Thanksgiving presented her with a beautiful edition of Tennyson, in recognition of her faithfulness as a scholar. John Toenges, of Fort Wayne, six years ago, when a strippling, was beaten by a drunken teamster named Seibert, who struck him over the head with the tailboard of the wagon. Seibert was afterward sent to the penitentiary for murderous assault and served his time. Sunday Toenges died of the injury. The attorney for Clark county, Saturday, filed three suits against J. N. Ingram and his bondsmen, W. S. Jacobs, Jonas G. Howard and John F. Reed, for the recovery of school money used for private purposes by Ingram while treasurer of the city schools. The supposed amount is $15,000. Ingram is completely broken down. Wm. Ettel, a farmer near New Albany, while going into his barn after nightfall, stumbled over the agricultural implements and fell with great force against the teeth of a harrow. One of the points entered

his right cheek, another his hand, while a

abdomen with a butcher knife. The old

man then fled and has not yet been captured. Prof. Baptist Peynaud was probably fatally injured, Saturday night, at New Or-

leans, by diving from a tower, which is 150

He failed to make the usual

landing on his shoulders, but fell on his

back, was speechless and unable to rise. In the Cronin trial Saturday, the State closed its evidence by showing that two of Dr. Cronin's knives had been found on the person of Coughlin, one of the suspected. They were identified as belonging to the

farming implements, etc. They also left word that they hoped everything would be

kept clean in the future.

Dan McDonald, of the Plymouth Democrat, after a prospecting tour which car

ried him largely through the West, editori-

Doctor. Judge Longenecker began his ad-

dress to the jury Saturday evening. Judge Brewer has rendered a decision that that part of the Topeka (Kan) meat inspection ordinance which prescribes the inspection of the animal before slaughtering within a mile of the city limits is an

obstruction to interstate commerce, and

therefore void. A squeeze in corn was engineered on the Chicago Board of Trade, Friday. The price went up from 34 1/4 to 56. It is believed by some that ''Old Hutch" was

There was a little flurry of snow at Elkhart, Wednesday, which practically dem onstrated the inefficiency of the electric motor as applied at Elkhart to propel street cars. The wheels slipped upon the tracks

as if the rails were greased, while the

caught in the squeeze, while others believe

he is the power behind the throne and will

reap the larger part of the profits. At a meeting of R. E. Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans, held at Richmond, Va., Friday night, a letter was read and ordered to be forwarded to Jefferson Davis expressing sympathy for him, and saying that their affection and veneration for him is still as great as it was when he was President of the Confederacy.

Wm. F. Sartelle, of Worcester, Mass., a

them and along the wires overhead, and the cars made exceedingly slow progress, frequently coming to a dead halt. The will of the late L. B. Eaton, of An gola, made provision for establishing a

home for indigent widows and old ma.ds, and Isaac Eaton, a son, brought suit to set

it aside, alleging that the testator was of unsound mind when the document was drawn. Friday the administrator admit-

ted this fact, and the court thereupon held

the will null and void, and under the ruling the plaintiff will enter into possession. The estate is valued at $35,000.

with a rifle which he apparently loaded.

with leaden bullets, and then requests someone to shoot at him, appearing to catch the bullet in his mouth. This time he failed to substitute a pasteboard bullet, and Wm. Flannigan, who fired, shot Sartelle dead. Judge Anderson at Salt Lake, Saturday, in an elaborate and carefully-prepared opinion, denied the applications for citizenship made by Mormons who had taken Endowment-house oaths in the Mormon Church. The application has created wide-spread attention, and for the past two weeks Judge Anderson has been taking testimony. In his decision, he states the ground of his opposition to the admission of such applicants to be that "the Mormon Church is, and always has been, a treasonable organization in its teachings, and in its practices hostile to the govern-

ment of the United States; disobedient to

The estate is valued at $35,000.

The annual meeting of the State Prohibition League was held at Indianapolis Friday. The various reports showed that encouraging progress was being made. The following officers were elected : President---G. W. Hagans. Vice-president---Wymond J. Becket. Secretary---Elwood C. Siler. Treasurer---Mrs. L. E. Scott. Trustees---Jesse T. Hutchens, Dr. John J. Baker and Mrs. J. A. Pollack. Harrison county White Caps are again on duty. In one instance they compelled the ownsr of a poor and neglected horse to perform the duty of a horse for a whole night. When they brought him to the stable from work the hapless victim facetiously remarked that he always curried his horse after working him hard. The obliging White Caps complied with his request with alacrity, and with the largest

and coarsest curry-comb they could find

they groomed the human pony until

J Dobson, of Osgood, was killed by A. Bishop, his father-in-law, Wednesday. Dobson has mistreated his wife, and her father persuaded her to return home. Dob-

concern-

ed in the separation, and he presented him-

the death of the prophets, Joseph and Hy-

[illegible] Smith, upon the government and peo-

ple of the United States. Governor Gordon, of Georgia, delivered an address at Chicago, Saturday night, in behalf of the proposed Confederate monument in that city. War," he said, "though often calamitous, is not always evil. Justifiable war, however grievous for the present, may work for the people a might of popular good and national glory. Even a war waged against rebellious subjects may be such. The revolution of 1776 is a living

President in a letter wished to attract the attention of its members to the wide field in Indiana for the cultivation of plums especially of native varieties. It is his opinion that horticulturists wore on the eve of a period when plums would be plenteous. Fruit-growers, he argued, were not properly organized in this State in regard to the marketing of their products as they were in other States where they pos aessed market unions, organizations which controlled the prices and distribution of fruit. Prof. W. H. Ragan, , one of the trustees of Purdue University, submitted a report on that institution. He said that Purdue was not giving the attention it should to agricultural and horticultural interests. The fact that there were within its walls only two students in the horticultural department, and a small number in the agricultural class was sufficient proof that the university was not carrying out the purposes for which it was founded. Professor Troop reported upon the experimental work at Purdue in horticulture. He made special reference to the new fruits which had been introduced, and the value of the different varieties The advantages of ornamental planting were shown by E. Y. Teas, of Greenville, O. He gave several illustration of its merits and claimed that it taught children to discriminate between varieties and to cultivate a love of the beautiful in nature. It was astonishing, he said, how many people of intelligence aud education passed without notice much that was interesting in the plants and flowers. From the report of Commissioner Raum, just issued, the following is taken, show ing the number of pensioners in each

DR. TAIMAGE IN JOPPi Tho Eminent Brooklyn Preacher Talk3 on tho Charities of tho Keedb.

county in Indiana:

County. No. Adams ..- 3?3 Alien "J2 Bartholomew- 03 Uentou ' iila kuml 1&9 Boone 59 J Bibwn 307 Carroll 319 Cuss 53S Clark, 53i Clay Clinton -SCO Crawford 681 DSV358 - 4r;9 Itiarborn ft S Dectu- M3 Dekalb u Delaware 46 Duhois . 3W Elkhart. 510 Fayette '.S3 Floyd 40 Fountain 437 Fran lln..-. 870 Fulton...... 358 Gibson 42i Grant 573 Greene 773 Hamilton 5.'3 Huncock... 359 Harrison 449 Hendricks 503 Henry 4 7 Howtird 437 Huntington 423 Jackson. 759 Jasper , 241 Jay 477 Jefferson........ 6L'0 JenninKS. I8i Johnkon 41 Knox 482 ICosciusro 428 Lagrange V67 Lake 237 Laporte S03 Lawrence, ..... 656

County. Madison Ma ion ... M rshall Martin Miami Monroe Montgomery Morgan........ Newton Noble..,. Ohio Orange , Owen....... Farke Terry Pike Porter Posey 1 Pniaski Putnam Randolph Ripley . Rush ... St. Joseph Scott -........ Shelby ..... Spencer.. Starke Steuben ...... Sullivan Switzerland Tippecanoe Tipton..... Union ....... Vanerburg Vermillion,. Vigo W.bnsh Warren Warrick Washington Wayne......... Well : White Whitley

No. 6X7 2, 7.-1

40, !44 68 012 lol 4U4 16 i.4i 5 8 S14 42$ 52 267 815 24J 423 5d il 2ft I " o64 .01 493 67! 142 415 Ml 807 HO 101 4S9 SW2 1,04?

359

4S7 591 i74 S45 31.

Total

WASHINGTON AFFAIRS.

Total postal revenues last year, $56,148, 014: deficiency, 16,850,183; increase of rev-" onue, $3,423,8$3; of expenses, $5,892,468; estimated expenses for year ending June 30, '91, $73,434,008 a deficiency of over $7,000,000. Tho annual report of Admiral Porter shows that most of the ships in tho navy are in good condition. The Antietam, Juniata, Pilgrim and Quinnobaug have been condemned and ordered sold. The Admiral says he has frequently found the reports of exercises on board ships unsatisfactory, and the regulations imperfectly complied with, and thinks the reports should be made directly to the Bureau of Navigation, wheie they might come under tho oyo of the department. Many things wnich aro obsolete are still adhered to in these reports, forms for which were made twenty years ago, and the Admiral recommends that as the system tactics and exercises

are entirely changed, new forms be made.

Assistant Secretary Tien en er has approved tho action of Inspector George W. Baker, in the case of two Chinese laborers smuggled into the United Statea from Gretna, Canada, and captured by him in North Dakota, nearly thirty miles from the boundary line. The men were arrested by direction of the Inspector ami taken before a United States Commissioner,and it being proved that they had entered the country illegally, they were taken across the boundary line and delivered to the foreign customs authorities. Senator Vest's committee, which has been investigating the dressed-beef inter ests of the country for some months, resumed the examination of witnesses in the room of the Senate committee on commerce, Saturday morning. There -were present of the committee Senators Vest, Coke, Parwell, Manderson and Plumb, and a number of persons interested as wit

nesses or otherwise. Among them -was ' .temptations

f uy w ....

example.' Tho resistance, by our fathers

- was a just reward, a rebellion true, con certed, del iberate rebellion, bu it was a paradox of history, a rebellion for defense defense against the demanas against personal liberty. Our war of 1S6I was the only war where it might safely be claimed on both sides to be a war for defense for the North a defense of the integrity of the Republic to the South a defense of the rights of the States, of home, property, guaranteed rights, and, therefore, of guar" ' an teed freedom. It is immaterial toTa. quire which was right. The war and ail the actors in it will yet be tried before the - impartial Judge of all, in the impartial . forum of all. ' When the final verdict is given, no; mom consecrated purposes, ifo more exalted ideas can ho shown than those'On both sides in the great contest.

curry-cohib; Edward Carney, Torre -Haute, hair-restorer ; John Casoly,Knighttown, ; metallic railway drill-tie; J. B. Cleveland, ' Indianapolis, fenco reissue; J?. R. Davis, Bourbon, sill for buildings; E. E. Hollarew, Indianapolis, pino tuning-pin ; T. J. ., Linton, Trafalgar, . fence ; O. Neidlander, Indianapolis, car-coupling; X. Rcadon, Terre Haute, sash-holder; T. Simmons and J. IP. Nailor, Bloomington, impermeable facing for Jtrowsera; D. O. Smith, Mishawaka, . electric alarm; Henry Springer, Mt. Vermon, vehicle spring; j. W. Titus, Eckerty, stock trough ; H. Wood worth, Columbia City, 1 spacing instrument. The State Horticultural Society held its twenty-ninth annual meeting, at Indianapolis, Tuesday and Wednesday. Tho Jinancial, condition of the society is good; The f " " -

Mr. P. D, Armour, tho Chic go beef and pork packer. He was accompanied by his attorneys, Messrs. Campbell, Martin, Quinn and Dudley. He submitted a written statement to the committee;

There are somo interesting facts stowed

away in the annual report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. There were manufactured in the yoar ending June 30, 18S9, nearly 289,000,000 more cigarettes than during the preceding year. The whole number of cigarettes made was ,151,515,560, while the number of cigars was 8,867,895,640, New York State is the great cigar manufactory of the Union. It turned out 1,103,404,661 cigars and nearly a billion cigarettes, using up in the pro duction of these articles nearly 27,000,000 pounds of tobacco. Pennsylvania comes next to New York, consuming nearly 19,000,000 pounds of tobacco in its cigar and cigarette production. Virginia, vhich is heard of so much in connection with tho production of cigarettes, comes after Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and California in cigar production, but is third in importance a3 a cigarette producer. Theie were used in the manufacture of tobacco during the year more than 33,000,000 pounds of licorice, 18,695,550 pounds of sugar and more than 8,000,000 pounds of other materials. , The United States received special taxes from seven rectifiers, 2,758 retail liquor dealers, 85 wholesale liquor dealers, 41 brewers, 233 retail dealers in malt liquors, and 50 wholesale dealers in malt liquors in Iowa, and from one rectifier, 1,254 retail liquor dealers, 3 wholesale liquor dealers and 4 brewers in Kansas. There are two

pages and more of the report that housekeepers would do well to get and pin up in their kitchens to enable them to know the makers of some things they don't want to buy if they are anxious to avoid, adulterations. There are more than 100 brands of baking powder that are described as adulterated. There are twenty-two sorts of coffee, so, called, that are described as made up partly of chicory, peas, beans,rico,corn, wheat and coloring matter. Ten makes of cream of tartar are adulterated with phosphate of lime, sulphate of lime, more than G . per cent, of .tartrate of lime, alum, corn! starch and flour are spread before tho . reader. j Democratic congressmen had a caucus Mon d ay m om ing an d n omi nate d th 0 old officers for officers of the House. A resolution pledging the members of the party to every effort to seeure tariff reform was adopted.

He Arrives at the Birthplace of Sewing 6ociotie3, in ths Course of His Pilgrimage and Entertains a Company of Christian Feople. Rev. T. Do ittTalmage reached ancient Joppa in time . to preach to an appreciative company of Christians last Sunday. His subject was: "Tho Birthplace of Sowing . Socio t:ts.,, I7o took for his text Acts ix, Hits "And nil tho widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and .garments which Boreas made while she was with thorn.'' Tho preacher said : Christians of Joppa ! Impressed as I am with your mosque, the first 1 over saw, and stirred as 1 am with the fact that your barkor oneo floated the grout raits of Lob;; mm cedar from which tho temples at Jerusalem were buiideu, Solomon's oxen drawing tho los through this very town on tho way to 'Jerusalem, nothing om make mo forgot that this Joppa was tho birthplace of the sowing society that has blesscu tho poor of ull succeeding., ages in all lands. Tho . disasters to your town when Judas Macc.ibjeus set it on fire, and Napo eon hud live hundred prisoners massacred in your neighborhood, cannot mako mo forget that oho of tho most magnificent charities of tho centuries was. started in this seaport by Dorcas, a woman with her needle embroidering Iter name lncffncoably into the beneficence of the world. 1 see her sitting in yonder home In tho doorway, and arounu about tho building, and in the room where she sits, tiro the pale faces of tho poor. no listens to their plaint, she pities their woe, she makes garments for 1 hem, she adjusts the manufactured articles to suit tho bent form of this invalid woman, and to the cripple that comes

crawling on his hands ani knees. She

475 1 Rives a coat to this one, she gives sandals 436 ' to that one.. uth the gifts she mingles

prayers and tears and Christian encourage menu Then she goes out to bo greeted on the sireot corners by thoso whom she has blessed, aud all through the street the cry is heard: "Dorcas is coming!" The sick look up gratefully in her face as she puts her hand on the burning brow, and the lost and tho abandoned start up with hope as they hear her gen tie voice, as though an angel had addressed them; and as she goes out tho lane, eyes half put out with sin think they see a halo of light about her brow, and a trail of glory in her pathway. That night a half paid shipwright climbs tho hill and reaches home, and see3 his little boy well clad, and says: "Where did these clothes come from iu And they tell bim, "Dorcas has been here.". In another place a woman is trimming a lamp; Dorcas bought the oil. In. another place, a family that had not been at table for muny a week are gathered now, for Dorcas has brought bread. DEATH AND RESUnRECTIOK OF DORCAS. Kut there is a sudden pause in that woman's ministry. They say: "Where is

sou j Boreas? Why, we haven't seen her for

nyaday. Where is Dorcas I" And ono o. these poor people goes up and knocks at tho door and finds the mystery solved. All through the haunts of wretchedness, the news comes, "Dorcas is sick!" No bulletin Hashing from the palace gate telling the stages of a king's disease, is more anxiously nwaited for than the news from this sick benefactress. Alas! for Joppa 1 there is wailing, wailing. That voice which uttered so many cheerful words is hushed; that hand which had so many garments for the poor is cold aud still; the star which had. poured light into the midnight of wretchedness is dimmed by tne blinding mists that go up from tho river of death. In every Gcd forsaken place in this town ; wherever there is a sick child and no balm; wherever there is hunger and no broad; wherever there is guilt and no commiseration; wherever thero is. a broken heart and no comfort, thero are despairing looks Streaming eyes, and fr.intic gesticulations as they cry : "Dorcas is dead V They send tot the apostle Peter, who happens to be in the suburbs of this place, stopping with u tanner by the name of Simon. Peter urges his way through the crowd around the cioor, and stands in the presence of ihedead. W hat expostulation and grief all about him I Hero stand some of, the poor people, who' show the garments which this poor woman had mado for them. Their grief cannotbe appeased. The apostle Peter wants to perform a miracle. He will not do it amidst the excited crowd, and he kindly orders that the whole room be cleared. The door is shut against tho populace. The apostle stands now with the dead. Oh, it is a serious moment, you know, when you are alone with a lifeless body I The apostle gets , down on his knees and prays, and then he comes to the lifeless form oi this one all ready for the sepulehcr, and in the strength of him who. is the

resurrection he exclaims: "Tabitha, arise!" There is a stir in xhe fountains of life; the heart flutters the nerves thrill ; the cheek flushes; the eye opens; she sits up! W e see in this subject Dorcas the disci pie ; Boreas the benefactress ; Dorcas the lamented ; Dorcas the resurrected. If I had not seen that word disciple in my text, I would have known this woman was a Christian. Such music as that never came from a heart which is not chorded and strung by divine grace. Before I show you the needlework of this woman, I want to show you her regenerated heart, the source of a pure life and all Christian charities. I wish that the wives and mothers and daughters and sisters of all the earth would imitate porcas in her discipleship. Before you cross the threshold of the hospital, before you enter upon the

ana trials of to-morrow, I

charge you, in the name of God, and by the turmoil and tumult of the judgment day, oh women! that you attend to the first last and greatest duty of your life the seeking for God and being at peace with him. W hen the trumoet shall sound, there will be an uproar, and a wreck of mountain and continent, and no human arm can help you. Ainiast the rising of the dead, and amidst the boiling of yonder sea, and amidst the live, leaping thunders of the flying heavens, calm and placid will be every woman's heart who hath put "her trust in Christ; calm notwithstanding all the tumult, as though the fire in the heavens were only tho gildings of an autumnal sunset, as though the peal of the trumpet were only the harmony of an orchestra, as the awful voices of the sky were but a group of friends bursting through a gateway at eventimo with laughter,, and shouting "Dorcas, the disciple!" Would God that every Mary and every Martha would this day sit down at the feet of Jesus 1 . . - Further, wo see Dorcas the benefactress. History has told the story of the crown; the epic poet has sung of the sword; the pastoral poet, with his vorses full of the redolence of clover tops, and a-rustlo with tho silk of the corn, has sung tho praises of tho plow. I tell you the praises of the needle. From tho fig leaf robe prepared in the garden of Eden to the last stitch taken on the garment for the poor, the needle has wrought wonders of kindness, generotdty and benefaction. It adorned the girdle of the high priest; it fashioned the curtains in the ancient, tabernacle ; it cushioned the chariots of King Solomon; it provided the robes of Queen Elizabeth; and in hi h places and in low places, by the fire Of the pioneer's back log and under the flash of the chandelier, everywhere, it has clothed nakedness, preached tlm Gospel, it has overcome hosts of penury and want with tho war cry of "Stitoh, stitch stitch 1" The operatives have found a livelihood by it, and through it the mansions of tho employer have been constructed. Amidst tho greatest triumph in all ages and lands, I set down the conquests of the needle. I admit its crimes ; I. admit its cruelties. It has had more martyrs than tho lire; it has punctured the eye; it has pierced the side; it has struck weakness into the lungs; ii has sent madness into the brain; it has filled the potter's fiold; it has pitched whole armies of the suffering into crime and wretchedness and woe. But now that I am talking of Dorcas and her ministries to the poor, . 1 shall speak only of tho charities of the needle. " This woman was a representative oT all those women who make garments for tho destitute, who knit socks for tho barefooted, who prepare bandages for the lacerated, who fix up boxes or clothing for missionaries, who go into tho asylums of the suffering and destitute bearing that Gospel which is sight for the blind, and hearing for the deaf and which makes tho same mam leap like a hart, and brings the dead to life, immortal

health bounding in their pulses. What a contrast between the practical benovolenco of this woman and a great deal of tho charity of this day ! .. This woman did not spent hor time idly planning how tho poor of yo'ir city of Joppa were to be relieved: she took hor needle and relieved thorn. She was not like thoso persons who symyathiso with imaginary sorrows, and go out in the strcot ond laugh at tho boy who lias upet his basket of cold vituals, or lileo that charity which makes a rousing speech on tho benevolent platform, and goes, out to kick tho beggor from tho stop, crying:, "Hush your miserable howling" Tho sufferers of tho world want not so much theory as practice; not so much tears as dollars; not so much kind wishes as loaves of bread; not. so much smiles as shoes; not so much "God bless yous!" as ja-'kols and frorks. 1 will pat one earnest Christian man, hard working, against five thousand mora theorists on tho subject of charitv. There are a great many who have line ideas about church architecture who never iu their life helped to build a church. There aro mon who can give you the history of Buddisut and Mohammedanism, who never sent a

farthing for their evangelization. Thero r.ro women who talk beautifully about tho suffering of the world, who never had the courage liko Dorcas to take the needlo and assault it . I come now to speak of Dorcas tho lamented. When death struck down that good woman, oh, how much sorrow there was in this town of Joppa! I suppose there were women here with larger fortunes; women, perhaps, with handsomer faces; but therA was no grief at their departure like this at the de.ith of Dorcas. Thero was not more turmoil and upturning in tho Mediterranean sea, dashing asrainst tho.. wharves of this seaport, than thero were surgings to and fro of grief because Dorcas was dead. Thero are a great many who go out of lifo and aro unmisscd. Thero may bo a very largo funeral; there may bo a groat many carriages aud a plumed hearse; there may be high sounding eulogiums; tho bell may toll at tho cemetery gate; there may bo a very lino marble shaft roared over tho restiug place; but the whole thing may bo a falsehood and a sham. Tho church of. God has lost nothing, the world has lot nothiug. It is only a nuisance abated; it is only a grumbler ceasing to find fault; it is only an idler stopped yawning; it is only a dissipated fashionable parted from his wine cellar; w a ilo, on tho other hand, no useful Christian loaves this worfd without being missed. Tho church of God cries out like tho prophet: "Howl,. fir tree, for the cedar has fallen." W idowhood comes and-shows the garments which the' departed had made. Orphans aro lifted up to look into the calm face of the sleeping benefactress. Reclaimed vagrancy comes and kisses the cold brow of her who charmed it away from siu, and all through the streets of Joppa there is mourningmourning because Dorcas is dead. .. When Josephine of Prance was carried out to her grave, thero were a great many men and women of pomp and pride and position that went out after her; but I am most affected by the story of history that on that day there were ten thousand of the poor of Prance who followed her coffiu, weeping and wailinsr until the air rang again, because, when they lost Josephine, they lost their last earthly friend. Oh, who would not rather have such obsequies than all the tears that were ever poured in the lachrymals that have been exhumed from ancient cities. There may be no mass for the dead; there maybe no costly sarcophagus; there may be no elaborate mausoleum; but in the damp collars of the city, and through the lonely huts of the mountain glen, there will be mourning, mourn ing, mourning, because Dorcas is dead. "Blessed are the dead who dio in the Lord; they rest from their labors, and their worKs do follow them." I speak to you of Dorcas tho resurrected. Tho apostle came to where she was and said : "Arise; and she sat up !" In what 'a short compass tho great writer put that "She sat up !" Oh, what a time there must have been around this town, when tho apostle .. brought her out among her old friends 1 How the tears of joy must have started! What clapping of hands there must have been! What singing! What laughter! Sound it all through that lane! Shout it down that dark alley! Lot all Joppa hear it 1 Dorcas. is resurrected! You and I have seen the same thing many a time; not a dead body resuscitated, but the deceased coming up again after death in the good accomplished. If a man labors up to fifty, years of age, . serv ing God, and then dies, we are apt to think that his earthly work is done. No. . His influence, on earth will continue till the world ceases. Services rendered for Christ never stop. A Christian woman toils for. the upbuilding of a church through many anxieties, through many self denials, with prayers and tears, and then she dies. It is fifteen years since she went away. Now the spirit of God descends upon that church: hundreds of souls stand up and confess the faith of Christ. . i las that christian woman, who wont away fifteen years aro, noth'nir to do .with these thiugs J I see the flowering out of her noble heart. I hear the echo of her footsteps in all the songs over sins forgiven, in all the prosperity of the eh urv h. The good that seemed to be buried has come up again. Boreas is resurrected After a while all these Womanly iriends of Christ will put down their needle forever. After matting garments for others, some one will make a garment for them; the last robe we ever wear the robe for the grave. You will have heard the last cry of pain. You will have Witnessed the last orphanage. You will have come in worn cut from your last round of mercy. I do not kuow where you will sleep, nor what your epitaph will be; but there will be a lamp burning at the tomb and an angel ol God guarding it, and through all the long night no rude foot will disturb the dust. Sleep on, -sleep on! Soft bed, pleasant shadows, undisturbed repose ! Sleep on 1 Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep! : From which none ever wake to weep. Then one day there will be a sky rending, and a whirl of wheels, and the flash of a pageant; armies marching, chains clanking, banner waving, thunders booming, and that Christian woman will arise from the dust, and she will be suddenly surrounded surrounded by the wanderers of the street whom she reclaimed, surrounded by the wounded souls to. whom she had adminis

tered 1 Daughter of God, so strangely surrounded, what means this ? It means that reward has come, that the victory is won, that the crown is ready, that the banquet is spread. Shout it through all the crumbling earth. Sing it through all the flying heavens, Dorcas is resurrected 1 In 1855, when some of the soldiers came back from the Crimean war. to London,, tho Quoen of England distributed among them beautiful medals, called Crimean medals. Galleries were greeted for the two houses of paraiiament and the royal family to sit in. There was a great audience to witness the distribution of the medals. A colonel who had lost both feet in the battle of fnkerman was pulled in on a wheel chair; others came in limping on their crutches. Then the queen, of England arose, before them in the name of her government, and uttered words of commendation to the officers and men, and distributed those medals, inscribed with the four groat battlefields, Alma, Bialaklava, Inkortnan and Sevastopol, As the queon gave these to the wounded men and the wounded officers, the bands of music struck up the national air, and the people with streaming eyes joined in .the song: God save our gracious gueon ! Long live our noble queen 1 God save the queen I And then they shouted "Huzza! huzza!" Oh, it was a proud day for those returned warriors! But a brighter, bettor and glad der day will come when Christ shall gather those who have toiled in his service, good soldiers of Jesus Christ .. He shall rise be fore them, and in the presence of all the glorified of heaven ho will say: 14 Weil dona, good and faithful servant!" and then ha will distribute the medals of eternal victory, not inscribed with works of righteousness which wo have done, but with thoso four great battlefields, dear to earth and dear to heaven, Bethlehem! Nazeroth! Gothsemanel Calvary 1

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.

1 : t- X. -fA 1 III I' II ) I .1 HIMMI HlWIf Ui JtMn lli.llt 'HI uti li I'll

To the Senate and Home of UaprescntaUyes. There aro few transactions in tho admin-

' istration of the Government that are even

temporarily held in confidence 01 tnose charged with the Conduct of the public business. Every step taken is uuder the observation of an intelligent and watchful people. Tho state of. the .Union is known from day to day, and suggestions as to needed legislation dnd an earlier voice than that which speaks in these annual communications of tho President to Congress. Good will and cordiality have characterized our relations and correspondence with other Governments, and the year just closed leaves few international questions of importance remaining unadjusted. No obstacle is believe J to exist that can long postpone the consideration and adjustment of the still pending questions upon satisfactory aud honorable terms. The dealings of this Government with other States have been, and should always bo, marked by frankness and sincerity, our purposes avowed and our methods free from intrigue. This course has borne rich fruit in tho past, and it is our duty us a nation to preserve tho heritage of good repute which a century of right dealing with foreign governments has socured to us. It is a matter of high significance, and no less of congratulation, that tho first, year of the second century of our constitu tional existence finds, as honored guests within our borders, tho representatives of all the independent States of North and South America met together in earnest conference touching tho best methods of perpetuating and expanding the relations of mutual interest and friendliness existing: among them. That the opportun i ty thu s afforded for prom oti n g closer international relations and the increased prosperity of the States represented will be used for the mutual good of all, I can not permit myself to doubt. Our people will await with interest and confidence the results to flow from so auspicious a meeting of allied, and, in largo part, identical interests. Tho President then reviews our relations with foreign- nations. ... ' rns.srnrr.us. . Within our. own borders a 'general condition of prosperity prevails. The harvests of the 1 1st summer- were exceptionally abundant, and the trade conditions now prevailing seem to promise a successful season to the merchant and the manufacturer, 'and general employment to our working people. The report of tho Secre tary of the Treasury for the fiscal year ending Juno 80, lSJ59,has been prepared, and will bo presented to Congress. It presents with clearness the fiscal operations of the Government, and I avail myself of it to obtain some facts for use here. The aggregate receipts from all sources for the year were $3S7,050,058.$4, derived as follows: Prom customs, 323,832,741.09; from internal revenue, $l30,$Sl,51ft.9d; from miscellaneous sources, .32,335, 803. 23. The ordinary expenditures for tho same period were $281,906,615, and the total expenditures, including ihe sinking fund, were $229,579,928.25. The' excess of receipts over expenditures was, after providing for tho sinking fund, $57,470,129.59. For the current fiscal year the total revenues, actual and estimated, are $385,000,000, and the ordinary expenditures, actual and estimated, aro 293,000,000, making, with the sinking fund, a total expenditure of $341,321,110.99, leaving au estimated surplus of $13,078,883.01. During the fiscal year there

was applied to the purchase of bonds, in

. . The Society 9SrPu Shoes.. The shoes of the fashionable girl grow narrower and longer every day of the season. It is English to do so, and bo they do, and tho shoe is a narrow as they can wear, whilo a point an inch longer . than their foot extends beyond it to inoroase tho appearance of slenderness. They are of patent leather, with heels not. more than half an inch high tmd with quite thin soles. These aro their carriage shoes, but for walkinsr kangaroo skin, with a sharp diamond of patent leather at the toe, is to be preferred.

addition to thoso for the sinking tuna, yJO,450,172.35, aud during tho first quarter of the current year the sum of $37.83$, 937.77,

ull of wnich was credited to the sinking

fund. The revenues of tho fiscal year, ending June 30, 1891, are estimated by the Treasury Department at $3:j5t000,00), and tho expenditures for. the same period, including the sinking fund, at 341,430,477.70. This shows an estimated surplus for that year of 13,509,522.30, which is more likely to be" increased than reduced when the actual trait suctions are written up. The existence of so largo an actual and atiticipated surplus should have the immediate attention of Congress with a view to rednc ing the receipts of the Tw asury to tho needs of the Government as clcsely as may be. The collection of moneys not needed for public uses imposes an unnecessary bur.den upon our people, and the xnesence of o large a surplus in the public vaults is a disturbing clement in the conduct of private business. It has called into use expedients for putting it into circulation of very. questionable propriety. We should not collect revenue for the purpose of anticipating our bonds, beyond tho requirements of the sinking fund, but any unappropriated surplus iu the Treasury should be so used as there is no other lawful way of returning the money to circulation, and the profit realizeu by tho Government offers a substantial advantage. Tho loaning of public funds to the banks without interest, upon the security . of Government bonds, I regard as an unauthorized and Ian gerou s exy e 3 ien t. It results i n a temporary and unnatural increase of the bank ;ng capital of favored localities, and compels a cautious and gradual recall of the deposits to avoid injury to tho commercial interests. It is not to bo expected that the banks having these deposits will sell their bonds to the Treasury so long as the present highly beneficial arrangen.ent is continued. They now practically get interst both upon tho bonds and their pro eed3. No further uso should be made of his method of getting the surplus into cir illation, and tho deposits now outstanding should bo gradually withdrawn and applied ;o the purchase of bonds. It is fortunate that such a uso can be mado of the exist nig surplus, and for some time to come of any casual surplus that may oxist after Congress has taken the necessary steps for a reduction of tho revenue. Such legisla tation should bo promptly but very considerately enacted. . :m . I recommend a revision of our tariff taw, both in its administrative features aid in the schedules. The need of the former is generally conceded, and , an agreement upon the evils and inconveniences to be remedied and the best methods for their correction will not be difficult. Uniformity of valuation at all our ports is essential, and effective measures should be taken to secure it. It is equally desirable that questions affecting rates and classifications should bo promptly decided. The preparations of anew schedule of customs duties is a matter of great delicacy because of its direct effect upon the business of the country, and of groat difficulty by reason of the wide divergence of opinion as to the "bieots that may properly bo prompted by such legislation. Some disturbances of business may, perhaps, result from the consideration of this subject by Congress, but this temporary ill -effect will be reduced to tho minimum by prompt action, and by tho assurance which the country already enjoys that any necessary changes

win do so mane as not .to impair me just nd reasonable protection of our homo inustrie. The inequalities of tho law hould be - adjusted, but the protective principle should be maintained and fairly applied to tho products of our farms as well as of our shops. Theso duties necessuily have relations to other things besides, tho public revenues. We can not limit th eir effects by fixing our eyes, on the public treasury alone." Thoy have a direct relation to home production, to ., work, to wages, and to tho commercial independence of our country, and the wise and patriotic legislation should enlarge the field of his vision to include all of these. The necessary reduction iu; our 'public revenues can, I am sure, bo made without making the smaller burden more onerous than the larger by reason of the disabilities and limitations which the process of reduction puts upon both capital and labor. The free list can very safely be ex tended by placing thereon articles that do not offer injurious competition to such domestic products as our home labor can supply. Tho removal of tho internal tax upon tobacco would relievo an important agricultural product from a burden which was imposed only because our revenue from customs duties was insufficient for the public needs. If safe provision against fraud can be devised, the removal of tho tax upon spirits used in the arts aud in manufactures would also offer an unobjectionable method of reducing the surplus. The President considers at length the subjects of coast defenses and silver and gold . Of the silver question ho says :

1 nave always been an advocate ot too use of silver in our currency. Wo aro largo producers of that metal, and should not discredit it. To the plan which will bo presented by tho Secretary of the Treasury for issuanco of notes or certificates upon th deposit of silver bullion at its market value, I have been able to give only a busty examination, owiug to the press ol other matters, and to the fact that it has been so recently formulated. The details of such a law require careful consideration, but the general plan suggested by him seems to satisfy the pur pose to continue tho use of silver in connection with our currency, and at tho same time to obviate the danger of which I have spoken . At a later day I may communicate further with Congress upon this

subject., TRUSTS AND COM ill NATIONS, " Earnest attention should be given by Congress to a consideration-of tho questiou how far the. restraint of thoso combinations of capital commonly called "Trusts" is matter of federal jurisdiction. When organized, as they often are to crush out all healthy competition and to monopolize or sale of an article of commerce and gener nl necessity, they ,nr dangerous consphacies agalnst'the public good, and should be

made the subject of prohibitory and even penal legislation. The subject of ah iiiternati onal copyright has been frequently commended. to the attention of Congress by my predecessors. The enactment &of such a law would bo Wise and just. Our naturalization laws should bo so revised as to make the inquiry into the moral character ..and Jfiood disposition toward our Government of the persons applying for citizenship more thorough. This can only bo done "by taking fuller control of the examination by fixing the times for hearing such applications, and by requiring the presence of some one who shall represent the Government in the inquiry. Those who are avowed enemies of social order, or who come te our shores to swell the injurious iu finance -and ..to ox? tend the evil practices of any association that defies our laws, should not only be denied citizenship, but a domicile. The enactment of a national bank superintendent la v of a character to be a permanent part of our general legislation is desirable. It should bo simple in its methods. auo inexpensive in its administration. PENSION .MATTERS. The law now provides a pension for every soidier and sailor who was mustered into tho service of the United States during the civil war and is nowsuiferiug from woands 01 disease hitving an origin iu the service and in the line of duty . "Two. of the necessary facta, viz. : muster and disability, arc usually susceptible of easy proof, but tho third, origin in the servicers often difficult, and in many deserving cases impossible to establish. That very many of those who endured the hardships of oui most bloody and arduous campaigns are now disabled from diseases that had a real but not a traceable origin in the service, I do not doubt. Besides those there is another class composed . of men, many of Whom served an onlistmant of three full years, and of re-onlistefl veterans who added a fourth year of service, who escaped the casualties of battle and tho assaults of disease, who wore always ready for any detail, who were in every battlelino of their command, and were mustered out in sound health, and have since the closo of the war, while fighting, with the same indomitable spirit .the contests; ol civil life, been overcome by disease or casualty. - v.-v-I am not unaware that tho pension roll already involves a very large annual expenditure, neither am f deterred by that fact from recommending that Congress grant a pension to such honorably discharged, soldiers and sailors of . tho civil war as (having rendered substantial, service during tub war) are now dependeut upon their own labor for malntaiuance, and by disease or casualty are incapacitated from earning it. Many of the ineh who would be included in this form of relief are now dependent upon public aid, and it does not, in my judgment, consist with the national honor that they shall continue to subsist upon the local relief given indiscriminately to paupers instead of upon the special aud generous provision of. the nation they served so gallantly and unselfishly. Our people will. I nm sure, very gen oraliy approve such legislation. And I am equally sure that the survivors of the ..Union army, .-and navy will feel a grateful sense of relief when this worthy and suffering class of their comrades is fairly cared for. .:, There are some manifest inequalities in the existing law that should be remedied. To somo of them the Secretary of the Interior-has called attention, lb is gratifying to be able to state that by the adoption of new and better methods in the War Department the calls of tho Pension Office for information as to the military and hospital records of pension claimants are now promptly answered, and the injurious and vexatious delays that have heretofore occurred are generally avoided. This will greatly facilitate the adjustment of all pending claims. . The advent of four neW: States Soutl Dakota, North Dakota, Montana ano Washingtoninto the Union under the Constitution, in tho same month, and tat admission of their, duly chosen representav lives to our national Congress at the samt session, is an event as tiuesampleu as it is interesting. The certification of the. votes cast and of the Constitutions adopted in each cf tho States was filed with me, as required by the eighth section of' the act of February. 22,1889, by the Governors of sai d Territories, respectively. . Having, after a careful examination, found that the several constitutions and Governments were Republican in form aud not repug

nant to the Constitution of the United

States; that all the provisions of the act of Congress had been complied with, and

that a majority of the votes Cast in each of said proposed States was in favor of the

adoption of the constitution submitted

therein, I did so declare byr a separate

proclamation to oac h; as to iNortn .Dakota

and South Dakota, 011 Saturday, November

2; as to Montana, on Friday, Novembers,

and as to. Washington on Friday, jsovem

ber2l. Each of these States has with? n its resoui'Ces the development of which

will employ, the euorgies of, and 31 eld a

com fortahie subsistence to? a reat population. The smallest of these now States,

Washington, stands twelfth, and the lcrg

est, Montana, third, among the forty-two

111 area. The people of these btates are al

ready well trained, intelligent and patriotic

American citizens, having common inter

ests and sympathies with those of older

States, and a common purpose to defend

the in Legrity and uphold the honor of the Nation. CIVIL SERVICE.

vice commission had a single member.

The Vacancies were filled on the 7th day ol

May, and since tnen ue commissioners

have been industriously, though with an

iu adequate force, engaged in executing

the law. They were assured by me that a

cardial support would bo given them in the faithful and impartial enforcement o tho statute and rules and regulations

adopted in aid of it. Heretofore the book

of eligible have been closed to everyone,

except as certifications were made upon

the requisttion of the appointing officers.

This secrecy -was the source of much sus

picion aud of .many charges of favoritism

in the administration, of the law. What

is secret is always. suspected; what is opf

ened can ho Judged. The commission with tho full approval of all its members.

has now opened its list Of oHgtbles to the

public. The eligible lists for the classi

tied postonices and custom houses are how

public posted m tne respective oinces, as

aro ..... also the certifications for appointments. The purpose of tho civil ser

vice law was absolutely to exclude any other consideration in conuoction with ap

pointments under it than that of merit as tested by the examinations. The business proceeds upon the theory that both the examining boards and the appointing, officers are absolutely ignorant as to the political .views and associations of all persons on the civil service lists. It is not too much ,. to say, however, that somo recent Congressional investigations

have somewhat shaken confidence in the impartiality of the selections or appointments. Tho reform of the civil service will make no safe and satisfactory advance until the present law and its administration are established in the hearts of the people. It will be my pleasure, as it is my duty to see that: the law is executed with firmness and impartiality. . If some of its provisions have been fraudulently evaded by appointing, officers, our resentment should not suggest the repeal of the law.

but reform in its administration. We should have ono view of the matter, and hold it with a sincerity that is not affected by-the consideration that tho party to which we belong is for the time in power. OTIIEK MATTEKS. J v ? Tho report of tho Postmaster General not only exhibits the operations for the last fiscal year, but contaius many valna bio suggestions for tho improvement and extentibn of the service which are commended to your attention. No other branch of of the Government has so closo a contact wi th the daily li fe; of the people. Almost everyone uses the service it offers, and every hour gained in the transmission of tho gveat commercial mails has an ae tual and possiblo value that ..only those

engaged in trade can understand. The .saving- of one day in tho transmission of mails between New York and San . Frantisco, which has recently been, accomplished, is an incident worthy af mention. The plan suggested by a supervision of tho postoflices in separate districts that shall involve instruction and suggestion and a rating of the efficiency to tho postmasters would, I have no doubt, groatly improve the service. V In general, satis factory progress has been mado. in the construction of the new ships of war authorized by Congress., The first vessel of the new navy, the Dolphin, was subjected to very severe trial tests and to very adverse criticisms. But it is gratifying to bo able to state that a cruise around the world, from which she hasarocontly returned, has demonstrated that she is a first-class vessel of her ratei The report of the Secretary shows that while .the

effective force of the navy, is rapidly

own. argument. One of the new ships raajrv in fighting strength; le equal to two oftwf old, but it can not do the cruising duty of K two. It is important, therefore, that? we r should have a moro rapid increase in the number of serviceable ship3 "' .

, We have fortunately not extended to - ? Alaska the mistaken policy of establishing reservations for the Indians, tribes, any t''-' can deal with them from the beginning ai; I . individuals with, I am;sure,botter result& But any disposition of tfie public landf ' '' and any regulations relating to any timber 'T; - . and the fisheries should have a kindly ro-" . gard to their i n teres ts . . ' Having no power .. s to levy taxes, the people" of Alaska ate -i wholly dependent upon the general Goveminent, to whose revenues the 1 seal fish-i

erics make a largo annual contribution. ' An. - appropriation for education shbulbVv

neither be overlooked or stinted, t The-" Vv smalmess of the population and the great- Jl distance between tho settlements offer serious obs tacles to the cs tablishment of, . ..-. the usual territorial f otvm of government.. T woa Perhaps the organ jz.itlu.i of several subdistricts, with a small municipal council of limited powere for each, would be safe J ,: and useful. Attention is called in this - connection to the sueirestions of the Sec

retary or tne Treasury relating' to tue es -,

tablishment of another port" of on try

Alaska, and of other needed -customs 'fa

cilities and regulations. .. In. the administration of the land lawspv the policy of facilitating in every propefei way the adjustment of the honest, claim of- ' individual settlers of the i public lands has been. pursued. The . number of pending1 cases had, during tho" preceding r, ' administration, been greatly increased un- ' dor the operation of orders for a time sus- t pending final action in a lai'ge -iart of the'

eases in the West and Northwest, and by

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tne subsequent use or unusual metnods op , :r v : a"

examination. Only those who aro familiar : - . :?.

with the conditions under which our agrK cultural lands have been settled can appreciate the serious and often fatal consequences to. the settler of a policy that puts his title under suspicion,' or delays the issuance of his patent. While care is taken

to punish and expose fraud, it houJdo

UU UUWWU tVlbMUUb - The manifest purpose o the horn stead and pre-emptionfl aws was to promote settlement of the pablie domain by 0Hf "ons having a bona fide intent to make a- ai home upon the tract of land. Where this intent is tveil established and the require-? ments of the law have been substantially

complied with, the claimant , is en

titled to a prompt and . friendly "consid; eration 01: his case.' But' where there i reason to believe that the claimant is , tho,. 4. mere agent of another who is seekiug to . evade a law intended to - promote : smalt J. holdings, and to secure by fraudulent methods large tracts of timber ; or ot heir ? 4 lands, both principal and'agent'aliould i'tofe. on lybe thwarted in'their fraudulent, puis- .;J pose, but should be mad; to feel thb":.Xull X penalties of our crim iy .al : statutes. Tho?rv- ' law should bo so administered as not to confound these two classes, and to: visit penalties only upon the Jatter. The unsettled state of the titles to l-npe " ; bodies of land in the Territories of lew Mexico and Arizona has greatly retarded V ; the development ?rf those territories; j f Provision should be made by law for the,

prompt trial and fin 4 adjustment bcfoiie a judicial tritunal Vr commission, . of all

claims based upon Mexican grants. It Sir- ., not just to au intell Igont and ent-erprisingr people that their ace should be disturbed and their property retarded by these old -S-J contentions. : I express the hope that r dif - ;V- ; f erences of opiniot as to methods;: .may!" - y iel d to the urgent y of the cas6.e "J , -The questions whicn have arisen during' . '- the past few yeai-s between Great Britain .

mux uju uutwu OU LC5 are 111 auvnuto w. .5; in course of amimble adlustment. On

the part ot the Government of the Domihv2 ;: " ion of Canada, an jffoirt has been;apparent a -luring the season just ended to adminis- " er the laws and ri gulations applicable to ' v lie fisheries wit 1 as little occasion f Or 4. . rictioh as was pi ssible, , aud the temper .f 'Attn representatives of this Government ia v, 1, cesnect of cases of unduo hardship or of r:

haihinterpretatims have been in most. cases with a measure of : transitory relief.- ' : ; It .is trusted thai the attainment of: ow - $y -just rights under existing treaties and in .-0 - . virtues of the conc urrent legislation of thej i; two contiguous ct pn tries will not be lon . 4 r. ; ; deferred, and tha all existing causes-olri .k difference may bV .cnnitably "adjusted. X. .: r ... recommend that j rovision be made by an1 .j international agreement forvisibly mark- - ing the wator bourdai'y between the Unitect : States and Cauudk in -tho nan'ow channels t "

which join the Ob ait Lakes. The convent tional , line therei n traced by the Northwestern Boundry Survey, years ago, is not in all cases readily . ascertalhable fot ; the settlement, of iurisdictional questions.. V

The cattle syndi-sate now occupying tne r

lands for grazing purposes an clearly one', of the agencies responsible foj; the obstruc. ,

kees. . The lirge'body of agricultural lands. -JTl

ceusiiiuwug witttu is uuuwu sw wiu - vuwiw. kee Outlet" ought to be, and indeed can not long be held fc r.razin, and for the?' -! advantage of a fev against the; public ih" ' tercst aud the bes, advantage of the In-' V dians themselves. The United Stateshasv . now under tho treaties certain rights inir these lands. Theie will not be used cp- ; pressively. but it c an not be allowed thatr those, who, by s iffcrance occupy thef lauds, shall interprisc to defeat the, wise; and beneficien t r irposcs of the Governv r -ment, I can not b it believe that the ad-. v vantagoous charac er of the offer made by:' " the United States- iheChei-okee nation,; , for a full release o these lands, as compared with other s lggcstions now marerto them, will yet ottain for ita ..pSpKfW r consideration. , ' v . - T The interest of tie general Government in the education o the people louhd early expression nt only in the thoughtful aud sometimes warning utterances of our ablest statesmc n, but in liberal appropriation from the c mmon resource for tho support of education in the new States. -No ode will deny th at it is of the grayest . -national concern that those who hold the; ultimate control of tl public affairs should, have the necessary intelligence wisely to 1 direct and determire - them. National aiVj. to education has hcrefore taken "the fornix of land-grants, and in that form the constitutional power of Congress to promote' the education of the people is not seriously ' questioned, I do not .think; it can be suc.

cessiuny questionca wnen tne icrm ; j ..$.

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t-hansred to that of direct trratit of money

from the public treasury. Such aid should be, as . it always has i?oen,-sugge.stby; some exceptional conditions. V ' . ' v; -' : - The sudden emancipatiori of the slaves Of v the South, the oesto wal of the : suffrage .-.? which soon followed, and the impairment- -1 of the ability of the States where these-U new citizens wore chiefiy found to ade? -quately. provide educations V facilities, presented not only -exojep tional but unexf ampled conditions. That the situation has been much ameliorated theo is hp doubt. V The ability and inteitothe ' States have happily Increased, '"j But a great worlr remains to be done,v and I thiuk tho general Government shoulq lend its aid. As the,- suggestion of a na-v ,t tionil grant in aid - of educaton grows " r chiefiy out of the condition and needs of the emancipated slave and his descends ants, the relief shocld as far as possiblOf while necessarily proceeding upon s6meVx general lines, be applied to the need that ; suerirestcd it. It is essential, if muchood l .

to.bo accomplished, tlxat the sympathy and r active interest of tho peoiploot the blfefttev 4v"::'4 should bo enlisted, and that the method r: " " ,

adopted should be such as to -stimulate " .M

an d no t su ppl an 1 1 ocal t ax ation . for school

purposes. As one Congress cannot ointl a

succeeding ono in such a case," and as the

effort must in somo degree be experimental, I recommend that any appropriation.

made for this purpose be so limited Iia"

amount and as to'time over which it is to , extend that it will,'on the ono hand givo

the local school authorities opportunity to make the best use of the first i'ear's allow ' . anco, and on the other, deliver them frontthe temntation to unduly postpone the as- r

sumption or tnownoio ouraen tnemscives. ;

., 1 earnestly ovoxe tne attonuou of . weugross to the consideration of such ' measn.

ui'OR ivtthih its well defined constitutional" powers as will secure to al) our people a. free t xereisc of the right ot suffrage and; 1 overy other civil right uuder the ednstituii, tion and laws of the, United States. Ko , evil, however doplorablo, can justify r thQ assumption either on the part of the. Kx ecutive or of Congiess of - powers not granted, but both will bo highly blamable if. all the powers granted are not wisely but ttrnily used to correct theseeviis. Vv I recommended that tho x Weather Service bo scpavated from the War Depart men t and established as h lmreh in the Department of Agriculture. This will in-, volve a reorganization both of the Weather Buieau and of the signal corps, making of tho first a pnrelj civil organization an of tho other a purely military staff corris"

Xhe report of the Chief Signal Qfficei

shows that tho woik of the wi'ps on military sido has been deteriorating. The power to take tho whole direction and control of the election of tho members

i of the House of Representatives is cleariy; .

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iy. Wo Had on tue-ltn 01 -Marco last, eioctions 13 now provmeu.ior uv raw, ana

irtv-seven serviceable ships, and though in my opinion this law maybe sostrehgth$

have since been added to the list the ened and extended as: to secure on. tne

in

creasing bv 'reason of the' imoroved build

and armament of the new ships, tho uuin- siven to the general Government. A 'aiv

bor of our ships fit for sea duty grows vory tial and v qualified supervision of these:.

siow

th

four

total has not been . increased, because in whole better Results than can be attamea the meantime four have been lost or con-. by a law taking all the processes of sucK-, -il pinned. Twontv-six additional vessels election iute federal control. The colored

have been authorized and appropriated for, man should be protectedin all his relations -bu t i t i s probublo that wh on they aro com - to the federal government whether a litir plcted our list will only ho increased to gan t, Juror or witness An our courts, as an forty-two again. The old wooden ships elector for members of Congress Or as a?sare disappearing almost as fast as tho new , peftcef ul traveler oh c 0r?: Mhtesta. vessels are added. These facts oavry their raUways4 ' , r- . yt: :.j.: 'f '

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