Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1888 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 39, 188S.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1SS3. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth St P. 5. LIxath. Correspondent.

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ST. LOtfl.S Union News Compear, Union Depot end Southern Hotel. WASHINGTON, D. O Biggs House end Ebbitt House. Telephone Calls. Business 0ee 233 Editorial Rooms 242 As a winter resort few places are superior to Indianapolis. At any rate, the number of statesmen who are resorting here at this time would seem to indicate as much. What's Florida or California compared with Indiana and its glorious climate! Did yctt ever experience more delightful winter weather? Speak quick, before it changes. The union of theological professors and the formation of & national academy of theology is suggestive in these days of "combines." Are we to have a theological trust? It is quite proper for statesmen to call on Gener.il Harrison and express their views on men and things, hat it should not disappoint them when the President-elect fails to unbosom himself in like manner. Just now he is exercising his talent as a good listener. The amount of wisdom contained in all those essays read before the teachers' associations is something appalling when considered, as it were, in bulk. Fortunately, no one individual is possessed of this combined ".aowls edge. Tha educational monster who can compass it all does not exist It is well that justice, patient and longenduring, does show its teeth sometimes. In imposing a fine of $25 and ten days in the work-house upon a chronic lan-breaking saloon-keeper the Mayor has, at least, shown that the law is not a dead letter. It ought to be made a very live one to its habitual "violators. When any man or class of men band together to defy the law, or exercise the privilege of violating it at pleasure, they should be made to feel its penalties with the added emphasis of outraged justice. It costs a great deal of money to keep the Insane Hospital at Indianapolis in operation, and the report of tbe managers calls for a further outlay of $0,000 for repairs. The afflicted ward3 of the State should be cared for properly, and tax-payers will not grudge the money if they have any assurance that it is applied to the purposes intended. Under the present management, however, thero is no such certainty. On the other hand, it is known that dishonesty has prevailed, and that patients have been ill treated. Ample evidence of both these facts has been given, and the public will look with disapproval upon any legislation which puts it into the power of the line now in control to extend their corrupt practices. Reform and a complete overhauling of the institution should precede' appropriations; but the coming Democratic Legislature will doubtless reverse the programme, and begin and stop with the appropriations., WoiTAN suffrage ha3 broken out in Maine, where, strangely enough, it seems to be a comparative novelty. Its champions are mostly among the male population, several distinguished citizens, among them ex-Gov. Robie, having pronounced in its favor. Rev. Henry Blanchard, who made the leading address at a recent Portland meeting, was earnest, but not altogether hopeful. He said: "It is the indifference of women which causes the greatest discouragement But believers in woman suffrage must not be discouraged longer than five minutes at a time. When they think' of the great intellects who favor their cause they may well believe it shall one day be victorious. n This will, perhaps, not have the cheering effect it was intended to havj, for somehow the "great intellects'' who favor the cause seem to be devoting their most arduous labors to the attainment of other ends. And if the mass of women are indifferent, why all this fuss? Why force upon them a thing they are not ready for and do not want? The government is not fairly quit of the Ilaytian business before information comes of a flagrant outrage upon an American vessel by Spanish cfUclals at Porto Rico. The offense consisted in seizing the vessel on a petty charge, exacting a fine of $4,000 and maltreating the captain and crew. After the fee was paid it was found that the original charge was unfounded, but the Spanish officials refused to refund the fine or make any reparation. Such an insult to the American flag cannot possibly be overlooked. If the fact are as stated this government will have to take immediate steps to insure an apology and reparation. It looks a little as if petty cfacials in the West Indies have concluded that it is ectirelj safe tc insult the American

flag. In the case of Hayti the government acted with commendaable. promptness and satisfactory results. Porto Rico represents a much more considerable power, but the duty of the government is no less plain. It is highly probable that if the facts are as stated the Spanish government will disavow the transaction and make suitable reparation. These incidents and the Samoan affair emphasize the necessity of the United States having some powerful war vessels. It is only a question of time when we shall come in collision with some strong power; then we shall need a navy and need it badly. ot necessarily a large one, but at least, two or three first-class war vessels, able to cope with anything afloat.

EEPDBLICAN3 WILL HOT BE CHEATED. Special dispatchesfrom Charleston, W. Va., state that the Governor has issued certificates of election to two of the Democratic candidates for Congress Wilson and Pendleton and that he refuses to issue certificates in the other two districts, where, upon the face of the returns, the Republican candidates were elected. Notwithstanding the frauds and manipulations at and after the election, the returns, as certified to the Secretary of State, still show the election of the Republicans. In the Chattanooga district in Tennessee, the returns give the majority to Evans, the Republican candidate, and his certificate is also withheld. In two other districts in that State the grossest frauds were perpetrated to count in the Democratic candidates. The same is true in Chalmers's and Hill's districts of Mississippi, as also in Smalls a district in South Carolina, and two districts in North Carolina. Yet these instances are merely samples ' of a joblot of cases in which, by the grossest corruption of the ballot and frauds in making returns, Democratic Governors have not hesitated to issue certificates to the Democrats. With all the frauds and counting in by election officers the House of Representatives is so close that it is sought to give a nominal majority to the Democrats by holding up the certificates of the Republican memberaelect in these three districts. The Republicans have a clear majority in the House on the face of the returns, despite all the Democratic frauds, which can only be overcome by the withholding of certificates to members-elect by Democratic Governors, aided by the manipulations of the Clerk of the House, who, being a Democrat, may be counted upon to join in the conspiracy, if the scheme can be made to work. This all looks very nice, and practicable, no doubt, to the Democratic managers. The Journal, however, ventures the prediction that it will not work. The plan of the Democrats is revolutionary. It is a manifest and direct attempt to overthrow the will of the people as expressed at the ballot-box. In their calculations the Democrats have forgotten one very important factor that is essential to its' success. They have forgotten that a presidential election has just been held, and that Benjamin Harrison was the successful candidate. The Republicans elected to the House, they being a majority of the body, will meet and organize the next House by the election of a Speaker and other officers, and will notify the President thereof. Should the Democrats attempt an organization, it will be for the President to decide which body he will recognize, and the prompt recognition of the legally elected body will cause a sudden collapse of the Democratic revolution. COMPULSORY EDUCATION. The question of a compulsory school law has already engaged the attention of intelligent educators and should receive careful consideration from our legislators. Some of the States already have such a law, and there is a growing public sentiment in favor of it. State Superintendent La Follette discusses the subject briefly in his annual report and is inclined to favor a compulsory law. v The school statistics show that in I8S3 the enrollment of school children in the State was only CS per cent of the enumeration and the average daily attendance only 54 per cent. The Superintendent thinks this too favorable a showing, and that both tbe enrollment and the attendance are considerably below the per cent, stated. In short, he thinks the actual average attendance at school of children of school age does not exceed 25 per cent, of the enrollment, while the enrollment does not exceed 50 per cent, of the enumeration. Of course, the enumeration is not perfect The inevitable conclusion is that a large proportion of the children of school age do not attend school more than a very small part of the period during which they ought to. This means that our free-school system, excellent and admirable as it is, is not doing its proper work ' in the education of the masses. It means, also, that a large number of children are growing up from year to year with little or no education, and reaching manhood and womanhood only to swell the mass of illiteracy, already too large. Granted this state of things, there can be no question as to the necessity of combating and correcting it Society cannot knowingly tolerate the growth of illiteracy. The State cannot be particeps criminis in the increase of ignorance. Universal education must go with universal suffrage. An ignorant ballot is as certainly a danger, to the Republic as an intelligent ballot is its best safeguard. The people must be educated. Youth is the time to do it, and if parents neglect the dnty it behooves the State to take it in hand. The State does take it in hand to the extent of taxing its citizens for the support of the schools and investing very large sums for their establishment and maintenance. Has it not an equal right to go a step farther and compel the attendance of children of school age? Take the case of a rich man without children who is taxed to support public schools. He has a right to say to the State: "You compel me to pay a school tax on the ground that free and universal education is necessary to the welfare of society and the preservation of the government I insist, then, that you make your free education universal by compelling parents to send their children to school." Indeed, evtry tax-payer who con- . tributes to the support of free schools has a

right to demand of the State that it make the system effective for the education of all its youth. Every argument that justifies the State in collecting a school tax would justify it in enacting a compulsory school law. We presume there can be no question as to the right of the State to enact such a law. The only questien is as to its necessity and practicability. Its necessity seems to be almost demonstrated by the astonishingly large number of children who are growing up in ignorance. Tbe effect of this will befar more painfully visible a generation or two hence than it is now. It is a state of things that cannot and must not be allowed to continue. If there is reason to believe a compulsory school law would correct it the Legislature should lose no time in enacting such a law. The only question is as to the possibility of enforcing it On this point there need be no serious doubt What has been done in other ages and countries can be done now and here. The idea of compulsory education is not new. It is almost as old as civilization itself. Almost every government that has recognized the importance of education has madeit cumpulsory. The ancient republics all did. Germany has done it for nearly two hundred years. Denmark has had a compulsory school law since 1814. Switzerland has had for many years. England, Belgium, Italy and Greece all have compulsory education. The law is not enforced with equal strictness in all these countries, and their standards of education and intelligence vary, but they all recognize the principle. Several of our States have compulsory laws. Their success depends, and always will, on the machinery for their enforcement and the strength of the public sentiment behind them. The same, however, might be said of any other law. Without these conditions no law is effective; with them any law will be. If we are not to have a compulsory school law, it behooves the State to consider what other means, if any, can be adopted to bring children into the schools, or to induce parents to place them there. The present condition and tendency cannot be allowed to continue.

TWO OLD PBIEUDS. During the war, when the military lines on both sides were closely drawn, and all lines of communication were under military control, army correspondents used to have great difficulty in getting news. Then, as now, the popular demand for news was very great, and the special correspondent was often put to his wits' end to supply it But he was equal to the occasion, as he always is. When there was an absolute dearth of news, and other sources utterly failed, he fell back on "an intelligent contraband" and "a reliable gentleman." The intelligent contraband was a fugitive slave, vfho had always just reached our army lines from the other Bide, and was loaded down with information smoking hot from Dixie. The reliable gentleman was on the inside of administration circles at Washington, and, though his name could not be mentioned without a breach of confidence, he was full of state secrets. With the aid of these two dummies X and his own vivid imagination the war corre spondent could always keep the public wide awake and deeply interested. ' ! The intelligent contraband has passed away, but the reliable gentleman is still with us. When the cruel war was over, when all became quiet on the Potomac, and Johnny went marching home to the girl he left behind him, the intelligent contraband ceased to figure as a purveyor of news and disseminator of information, but his contemporary and co-laborer of war times has survived tbe period that gave them birth. The reliable gentieman is now engaged in forming cabinets and framing presidential policies. He is a versatile genius, and possesses great aptitude for affairs. In war times he dealt exclusively in military news, now he is wholly occupied with civil affairs. Then it was the movement of armies and the conduct of campaigns, now it is the construction of cabinets and the shaping of administrations. The reliable gentleman is still the confidential friend of the special correspondent Like his prototype of the war period he doesn't wish to be known, and he only gives hij name to the correspondent as a guarantee of good faith. But the amount of information he possesses is wonderful, and in the matter of constructing and reconstructing cabinets he is the correspondent's mascot The reliable gentleman is likely to becomo a permanent feature of American journalism. As a perennial source of news he has had no rival since the days of the intelligent contraband. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union wove a tangled web for itself when "first it practiced to deceive" by allying itself, through its national convention, with the third party, then denying that such is the case, and still visiting with severe rebuke all auxiliary societies that insist upon maintaining a non-partisan policy. Local organizations throughout the country which have endeavored to keep clear of third-party complications have found themselves in disrepute with the general managers, and in consequence many have withdrawn from the National union. The Indianapolis Woman's News, whose editors are in entire sympathy with the legitimate work of the union, has this tosay on the subject: "It is not that the national bodr is right or wrong, but to maintain a consistent policy it should not only carry out its 'convictions but should expect its auxiliaries . to do the same, and then not only say that State unions will be expected to maintain a partisan policy, but that it will be required of them. In that case no misunderstanding can arise. The Republican, Democratic, Greenback or Labor Union woman will know if she signs the constitution she commits herself to third-party prohibition. The W. C. T. U. has forty well-organized departments of work, embodying the grandest principles the world ever saw, and if in anv one of these it put forth the same energy, sympathy aDd force as it does in its expression of unity with the third-party prohibition policy, evangelization would come and public opinion would so crystallize itself that prohibition would be the result, and the sentiment behind it would enforce it" This is a plain statement cf fact, and is in harmony with the sentiment of the most earnest and practical temperance workers. When the W. C. T. U. abandons politics and once more seis itself, to its original work of promoting temperance, there will be seen a

cause for its existence in the growth of antisaloon sentiment which, at present, it does nothing to encourage

To the Editor of the Indianapolis J our net Please state the majority of the popular vote Id thli. State at the last election for Representative and oblige A Subscbibek. Ca wto sns villz. Ind. If you mean tbe vote by districts on Congressmen the Republican majority was 4,501. To the Editor of the Indian atolls Journal Please give the res alt of the official count in West Virginia for Governor and President. Plzasaxtyilltc, Ind. Constant Reader. For President, Cleveland, 79,330; Harrison, 78,491. The official vote Tor Governor is not known, but Goff, Republican, is elected. ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. A San Fkancisco gentleman owns a dog on whose collar he has attsched the following legend: "I will not be responsible for the damage done to people who persist in discussing 'Robert Elsmere' in this dog's hearing. He can't stand everything." A manicure says tbat fingernails have their meaning. Pink nails denote indolence; red nails, high temper; narrow nails, mischievouscess; small round nails, obstinacy; pale nails, bsd health; broad nails, basbfulness, and long nails, indecision of character. Mr. Gladstone will pass the seventy-ninth anniversary of his birth under tbe skies of Italy, and to-day, the birthday of the "Grand Old 31 an," the professors of the university at Naples will present their congratulations to him. On Christmas day Sir. Gladstone attended service at the English church at Naples. Ferdinand Schumacher, of Akron, O., is known as the Oatmeal King in the milling world. It is told of him that be is a Prohibitionist of such fixed opinions tbat when one of his mills was destroyed he distributed 20,000 bushels of scorched grain among the farmers for chicken feed, rather than sell it to distillers to bo made into whisky. Col. Robert G. Inqersoll, among his other rnnltifarious duties as lawyer, cattle-grower, lecturer, telegraph director and after-dinner speaker, has undertaken to run a silver mine, lie is president of a company which owns end operates a mine and quartz-mill at Silver City, N. M. Its definite and classical location is in what is known as "Legal Tender HilL" General Boulanger's wife denies that she has ever deserted tbe conjugal rdof, and tays that it is her husband, and not herself who seeks divorce. Her religion, she says, forbids divorce, and the does not believe in it. Bat she thinks the General wants to ape Napoleon in one respect, even if he can never resemble him in any other, by "putting away Josephine to marry Marie Louise." "If I had been able to follow my own inclination," said M. Dumas, "I should have occupied myself, I do not say exclusively, but certainly to a large extent, with horses and dogs, feceiug and the chase, and above all, with gymnastics. To be possessed of great muscular -power was lone ego my ambition, and I should have secured it, for nature hat met me half way, but fate or fortune decided otherwise." Mr. W, W. Richeson, who died at Maysville, Ky., a few days ago, was a native of King Willtara county, Virginia; graduated at the University of Virginia, and was engaged in teaching in Kentucky. Among his pupils was General Grant. When Grant became President he tendered his old preeeptor an office, which Mr. Kicbeson declined, saying that he would not exchange the work he'loved for the highest office in the country. A cable dispatch speaks of Osman Digna as "half European himself." He is a Frenchman, or of French descent, formerly a merchant at Saskim. His name was Vicet before he abjured it and his religion to marry one of the late Mahdi's numerous daughters. He should not be confounded with Olivier Pain, the communistic journalist, whose joining of the Arabs and subsequent unexplained death induced friction between France and England. It is not generally known, says the New York Star, that a price was once set on the head of Judge Richard O'Gorman, of the Superior Conrt He was one of the leading spirits in the "Young Ireland" moremtDt of 1843. England set a price on bis bead, but he escaped to Franco in an open boat, and subsequently came to this country, became a member of tbe bar, whence he rose to the bench. He is a tall, emaciatedlooking man, somewhat stooped, with white heir and a kindly manner. Rev. Dr. A. E. Dunning, of Boston, tells this story: He wss visiting bis home in Maine, and an old fellow-townsman began a theological discussion with him. "Parson," said be, "the Bible says that the Lord made the world in six days. Do you belive UP "Yes." "Now, do you think the He finished the whole thing up in that time?" "Yes."' "Well, all I can say Is that He could have put in one more day to mighty good advantage right here in this town." Grand Duke Alexis, of Russia, who is said to be engaged to Princess Helene d'Orltans, is more than twice that woman's age. lie is an admiral, and is a good officer. He is tall, bulky and bald, abrupt in manner and coarse in speech. It would not require a very deep scratch to reveal his Tartar nature. lie visited this country some years ago and was much petted and coddled by undiscriminating tuft hunters. He now amuses bis friende by telling scandalous and contemptuous tales ot the people who entertained him. Jane Cobden, the daughter of the famous Richard Cobden, of England, says that the Women's Liberal Associations of England number more than 16,000 member, and have become a powerful influence. Miss Cobden and Miss Bates, a' niece of Sir Rowland Hill, were recently sent as delegates to the Men's Liberal Association convention, and Miss Cobden was put on its executive committee. The Radicals feel tbe necessity of utilizing the strong power of the women's Liberal organizations, and are inviting them to join forces, so that unitedly they may defeat the Conservative element in politics. A Brussels writer in Weser-Zeltnng tells a romantic story to account for the wanderings of Henry M. Stanley. It is said he fell in love, in his forty-fourth year, with a youne English lady. The hero who faced such stupendous difficulties was too modest or thy to tell her of his love, but confided it to her brother, requesting bim to be his mediator. Tbe English lady refused to take the initiative; she would neither decline nor accept the loyer who had not courage to "6 peak for himself." but promised to think over the problem. While she was thinking came the call to Stanley to march off to Africa for the liberation of Emin. His old love for Africa revived, and be left tbe English Calypso deliberating. M. Victorien ardou, the eminent French novelist and dramatist from a letter he bas just written to the Gaulois, is evidently a believer in such phenomena as come under the names of magnetism, hypnotism, second sight, and the rest phenomena which, he says, he has watched with curiosity for over forty yeers, but which were in his youth ridiculed by men of science, who regarded experiments then made as mere tricks and jugglery, only fit to provoke mirth. Facts, however, that were formerly denied are now generally accepted, and scarcely a dsy passes, M. Sardou observes, without some young savant coming forward to reveal things with which he was familiar before tbe young savant was born. "Some years ago," writes John G. Whittier to a friend, "I destroyed a large collection of letters I had received, not from any regard for my own reputation, bat from tbe fear tbat to leave them liable to publicity might be injurious or unpleasant to tbe writers or their friends. They covered much of the anti-slavery period and tbe war ot the rebellion, and many of them I know were strictly private and confidential. I was not able at tbe time to look over tbe MS., and thought it safest to make a bonfire of it all. I have always regarded a private and confidential letter as sacred and its publicity in any shape a shameful breach of trust, unless authorized by the writer. I only wish my own letters to thousands of correspondents may be as carefully disposed of." It was long ago said of Mr. George W. Childs, the publ .her of tbe Public Ledger of Philadelphia, that he was "the two Cheeryble brothers rolled into one," but he probably might be more accurately described as the Santa Clans of the newspaper world. On this last Christmas day Mr. Childs. it is said, distributed among the editors, reporters, correspondents, clerks, compositors, pressmen and other employes of the Ledger nearly 40,000. When it is considered that the salaries and wages paid by Mr. Childs ere as large as tbe largest paid by other Philadelphia publishers it will be recognized that all who are associated with him in his work have good cause to be satisfied with their employer in

a pecuniary way. It is said by them, however, that they have even greater eause for satisfaction with him because of his daily consideration for them than because ot his annual Christmas bounty. A vert charitable little body Is the Prioeess Maud of Wales. Her mother makes her an allowance, a considerable part of which she spends in charity, but there are so many appeals to her sympathy that her little fund is entirely inadequate to meet them, so she has hit upon this method of replenishing her exchequer She makes a habit of gathering up all the peacock feathers that are dropped by the great flock of pea-fowl at Sandringham, and these she weaves into fans and fire-screens to be sold at charity fairs. Tbe fact tbat they were made by a princess, and also that they are very prettily and tastefully done, gi'es them a considerable value and she reaps from them a neat little sum for her pet pensioners. Boston Advertiser. u The Princess of Wales preserves her good looks in a most astonishing way, considering her age. She will be forty-four years old on tbe first of next December, but in the shaded light of tbe opera-box or when arrayed In foil court dress (a toilet which she wears with infinite crate), she does not look a day over thirty. It seems impossiblo tbat the lovely lady can be tbe mother of her two tall sons, to say nothing of the two plain girls, her eldest daughters, with whom she is seen in public Her eldest son, Prince Albert. Victor, looks a good deal like her, but it is a resemblance, of caricature. His countenance reproduces tbat of his mother, with an added element of heaviness and stupidity. Only one of his three sisters is pretty, and that is the youngest, the Princess Maud. The real beauty.of tbe family is the second son. Prince George, who is a fresh-complexioned, blonde-beardei young fellow, a typical English youth, full of gayety and sprightlinese, but taking mors after his father's family than after his beautiful mother. The English nation has always idolized the Princess of Wales on account of her fair face and winning manners.

COMMENT AND OPINION. All roa ds. it used to be said, lead to Rome. In American politics to-dav it may be said with entire truth that the accomplishment of every legitimate and beneficial reform in our coverumept is to be aided by the reduction of the spoils system within the narrowest possible limits. New York Times. We want the Republican leaders and statesmen all in tbe harness those in tbe Senate and House where they now are; those on the outside, or some of them, in the Cabinet. Tbat is not good generalship which strengthens one wing of . an army at the cost of needlessly weakening any other wing. Milwaukee V isconsin. Civil-service reform does cot avail in this country to keep politicians of the worst sort out or ouice, cor to render public servants more zealous to serve the publie with efficiency or fidelity, if what has been called reform by the present administration and the professional re formers is taken as the test. New York Tribune. Taking the verdict of Nor. G as an indica tion, we should say the first thing to do and it is a work in which Democrats should engage as well as Republicans is to reduce the surplus. Compromise or no compromise, we are still confronted by a financial condition vastly more im perative in its demand for treatment than any economie theory. New York Son. What was done with the immense corruption fund which was raised to re-elect Mr. Cleveland? If this question can ever be brought before a federal grand jury it will not require Republican partisanship in the conrt or tbe prosecutor to prevent such a ridiculous termination of the af fair as has just been witnessed in the collapse of the Democratic caae against Dudley, at Indianapolis. Boston Advertiser. How to make labor honorable and education practical, and endow ho man life with' capacity for excellence in such branches as it can best fill these should be the ends of education and the object of our schools How nearly they come to filling these ends and accomplishing the best good they are capable of. is a question of paramount importance and of the rreateat interest to ail right-minded people. Portland Oregoman. If the Prohibition party, instead of wasting its strength in quadrennial attempts to electa President, who would be of co use to them after he was elected, would strengthen the bands of the party which has always supported the cause of temperance and morality, it would accomplish much more for tbe regeneration of the world from the curse of drunkenness, for it would find adherents and make friends where it now exCites antagonism. San Francisco Chronicle. If the Southern Statee will impose the educattionsl test, and also make tbe aaded departure of providing free schools for the education of voters, the proposed reform in the South will be practically without objection. But the educational teat without a chance afforded the voter to become educated will be simply a continuation of the mockery by which the black man of tbe South bas so long had the rights of citizenship without the privilege of using them. Iowa State Register. The party in possession of the government, with the power and responsibility, cannot, until human nature is a good deal changed, put tbe work of the government in tbe bands of men opposed to it. It is not merely that the party in power would suffer, but that the public interests would suffer. It needs no argument to show this; no business, public or private, can be successful with tbe subordinates instinctively opposed to the head and anxious to discredit and oust it New York Press. The men of the South who are interested in her new and growing industries have -been praying, it we may believe their assertions, for an issue on which they might break away from Democracy and free trade. The issue was made this year, but their courage was not yet up to the sticking point The result ie a solid South again. But a practically solid North has saved the new South from the solid South, and the feet of Southerners are turned to Indianapolis in great numbers. New York Graphic. Unless the prestige of the United States in the Pacific is maintained, and the intention of this government to stand by its engagements fully demonstrated, there will be nothing to prevent Germany, in furtherance of her "colonial policy," from gradually absorbing all the little insular communities which have thus far managed to preserve their independence. If she is suffered to appropriate Samoa, why should she spare Hawaii) Having frightened England into submission to her desires.'wbat power can resist her cupidity if the United States abandon the field? Brooklyn Eagle. The rapid growth and material inerease of the South since the census of I8S0 under tbe protective system, which has enooursged and stimulated her every industrial interest cannot fail to strengthen the protection sentiment of the new industrial South. The men who are facing the futjre instead of the past are tbe ones who are, riaking this pleasant history, and while the xnCisbacks ere whining and groaning under the weight and oppression of their own prejudices, the young, live and energetic men of the South are driving ahead, full of hope and determination. Detroit Tribune. Advice to the Unco-GultL Boston Transcript. The Methodist Episcopal clergymen of Columbus, O., bare been expressing their jay tbat a Christian man like General Harrison has been elected to the presidency, but they protest "against the proposed expenditure of nearly $100,000 for the purpose of imitating these follies and perpetuating that relic of barbarism, tbe inaugural ball, on the occasion of his inauguration." Our Methodist Episcopal brethren should etf&rge their vision. A good many Christian people do not believe daneine un-Christiun, and know that it can bo defended from Scripture. Tbeir Christianity is cheerful and embraces a liberal enjoyment of all tbe gifts and graces Providence bestows. They may doubt about the propriety of grab-boxes and raffles at church fairs, and question the beneficial influence of tattling, even if conducted with the most approved sobriety of mien; but they have no scruples about joinfog a well-dressed collection of men and wome a met to have a few pleasant hours in dancing. The progressive thsology of to-day recognizee this social fact as one cot to be deplored when existing under proper restraints. A Crematory and a Cemetery. ' Philadelphia Times. The price cf cremation, notwithstanding the eold weather, hac been reduced at the Cbelten Hill crematory to ?23 per body. That is the present market vUue cf one share of stock. One share of stock is accepted in exchange for one cremation. Tbe original price was 0. Tbat was in May, when the crematory began operations. Since then twenty bodies have been cremated. One thousand dollars has been taken in. Tbe aggregate receipta have cot equaled the expenses. The salary of Mr. Deamsderfer, who sits in tbe building in readiness to kindle tbe incinerating flames, bas bad to be aupplied from outside sources. The reduction of price has not started a boom. An order has not been received for three weeks. Some of tbe stockholders have been asking if cremation is a failure. Tbe building itself is cot completed. Id order to swell the receipts the company has decided to etart a collateral enterprise. This in the shape of a cemetery. Thirty acres of ground surrounding the crematory have been secured. The ground is being surveyed now. Early io tbe spring It will be laid out in beautiful lots eight by fifteen feet, making 200 lots to the acre. Each lot will be

exchangeable for two shares of stock. At the present market value that is GG. Tnis adjunct

to the crematory is to be called tbe Uhelten mil Cemetery Company. Tbe company has pre pared a circular. It sets forth the chespness of the lots and invites people to be buried in them. The cemetery is declared to be con-sectarian. Incineration is cot demanded as a qualification for burial For that the full price Is charred extra. Tbe Philadelphia crematory is the biggest in the world. President Trautmau receives correspondence regarding it from all foreign countries. There are two retorts. Twenty bodies could be cremated in a day. A Credit to the State and the Party. Madifon Courier. To those of our readers who wish to subscribe for a first class metropolitan daily during the year 18S9 we recommend tbe Indianapolis Jour nal. It it, beyond comparison, the best paper ever produced in Indiana, and is a better paper for Indiaclans than any printed in Cincinnati, Chieago or Louisville. Nothing but the network of railroads at our capital permits tbe con tinuance of sueh a publication as the Journal in a city of the population of Indianapolis. It is, in editorial ability, telegraphic service and gen eral news, vastly superior to tbe newspapers of cities of equal population. Tbe Journal is always outspoken, stanch and true in its political teachings, and during the lest campaign was second to co paper in the country in influence and importance. Tbe Journal is a credit to the State and tbe Republican party, and should be read universally throughout the State. In dianiane do cot need to co beyond our State lines for a modern metropolitan newspaper fully up to and abreast with the times. Eve In Hayti. Hayti Letter. Palm thatched huts, some with whitened walls and surrounded by a plantain patch, are passed. In front, leaning against the door-ppste, children wholly without clothing, eye tbe traveler listlessly. Women, with only a skirt of white cotton eloth, display their oftentimes shapely and luxuriant caked forms. The gaze of tbe white man is received unconcernedly, and the same indifference is displayed when in ford ing a small stream yon come upon a woman en gaged in completing the family washing. Ua such occasions she dispenses with tbe petticoat. The black form stands out agsinst the green of tbe rivers bank like a silhouette. What cares she, in her Eve-like indifference, for the stare of a strange man passing on horseback. ThsMoreao County Fraud Circular. Martinsville Republican. The Indianapolis Sentinel rashly pronounces the "float" circular of instructions,! issued by the Democratic committee cf this county during tbe late campaign, a fraud, and boldly asserts that if it is genuine Chairman Wbittaker should be sent to the penitentiary. Tbe Sentinel need cot give Its party friends away thus, for we assure tbe State organ of the party of "good schemes' . to carry tbe election tbat tbe circular is genuine. There are two representatives from this county on the United States Grand Jury, and no doubt one or both of them could enlighten tbe Sentioel or United States Attorney Bailey as to tbe gen uineness of the aforesaid document We sug gest that the Sentinel man confer with them upon the subject Coold Head Writing. Washington Letter. Tbe type-writer is a very useful bat cot al ways a safe instrument for candidates for of fice, as a certain senator who is a candidate for re-election this winter can testify. Not long ago he wrote a letter to a member of the Legis lature of his btate from one or the back counties, soliciting bis support in tbe approaching contest, and, as usual, dictated it to his stenogra pher, by whom it was transcribed upon a type writer. i esterday morning ne receiv m the following copv: "Dear Sir 1 have received your letter, and when you write to me again you need not take the trouble to est your letter printed, for I can read writing aa well ae yon . can." Iteckless Responsibility. Boston Trsnscnpt. The publishers of the Vassar Miscellany announce that "each editor is responsible for the literary merit of her department; co editor is responsible for the sentiment expressed in any contributed article; the entire board of editors is responsible for typographical errors." This last avowal is somewhat startling, but womec are sometimes brave to rashness. What male editor, or board of male editors, would dare to assume responsibility for the typographical errors with which tbe intelligent compositor bestrews their most elaborate efforts! One of Harrison's FerHs. Mew York Bun. Why should the Methodist preachers of Columbus protest against the proposed inauguration ball as a relic of barbarism!" It is true that daneing Is one of the first of human actions, bnt frm the earliest times it has enjoyed the practical sanction of the highest religious authorities. Tbe way the inauguration ball is being criticised may make the issue so intense that the Hon. Benjamin Harrison may be obliged to euppress the ball or dance himself. No half-way measures will be admissible. The Suicide a Coward. Philadelphia Inquirer. Tbe suicide is generally a coward, ne is usually one who has cot the courage to faee and fight misfortunes. He is one who, with energy and perseverance and a right use of his senses, could make himself of some use in the world and serve the purpose of his existence by helping himself and his fellow-men. His cowardice reaches the worst degrse when he leaves wife and children, dependent upon him for support, to continue the hard struggle alone. Can De Safely Left to Himself. Boston Transcript. It look more and more as though General Harrison was becoming impatient under the efforts to erowd eertain men upon him as members of his Cabinet. If tbe General goes safety through the ordeal of Cabinet-making, that very faet will etrenethen his position before tbe people greatly. He has an abundance of material from which to select, and be will make no) mistake if exhibiting the same tact, discretion and judgment he has thus far shown. Municipal Charity. Pittsburg Chronicle. Say what you please of the extravagance of the city government of New York city, there is always something to commend in tbe'liberality with which it votes money to its charitable institutions. Thus, last year, it expended about $2,300,000 for publie charities, and this year its outlay in this direction has been about $2,200,000. Brooklyn does as well in proportion; and very city in the country could aSord to take pattern by them. . The Office-Seeking Passion. New York Independent. Tbe office-seeking passion, so common among men, is almost a conundrum. Tbe great majority of those who have thie passion are euro to lose the prize 'they seek to win; and to'those who win the prize it turns out, except io a few rare cases, to be no prize at all. The great mass of them would have done much better for them selves and their familiea if they had been content with some vocation in the walks of private life. The Cablnet-Makers Not Appreciated. Boston Journal. From the columns of senseless and baseless dispatches about Cabinet eppointments which correspondents at Indianapolis are telegraphiog daily it might be imsgined that the great American people was passing sleepless eights by reason of anxious speculation as to who are to be t,he Presidents advisers; while the fact is that cot one American citizen in a hundred thousand feels more than a faint inttrest in the question. South Carolina's Vote. New York Independent. South Carolina, with a voting population of more than 210.000, more tban one-half of which was made up of colored voter', at the last eleetlon gave General Harrison 13.740 votes according to tbe election returns, and gate Cleveland a majority of 48.157. No man in his senses can believe that this is the result of a free ballot and aa honest count. Shame on Souta Carolina! Another Fling at Elijah. Fitttburg Chronicle. They say tbat Priiate Secretary Halford's penmanship is so bad that a page of it looks like a free Land sketch of a bundle of telegraph wires that have gone through a fire. Colnsl Helford whistles superbly, but as a penman be is cot what can be called a gUttericg sue cum. Kscournglog Tact, rbiladelphla Tress. The fact that Col. Roger Q. Mills has taken np the study of grammar is highly encouraging. After the ambitious Texan bas mastered tbat branch of learning he will be fitted to co on and read up on tbe tariff and other questions ot importance. Improvement In Canadian Temper. Toronto fthte. Not long ego a Canadian, if called an Atntxationiat, would have been wrathy. NowaJave one might as well hope to anger a 12 an by cs.lleg bim a tara!lelogram as by calling him aa Ann txatlo nist