Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1895 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL,' SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1895.

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THK INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be louml at tlx follow In? ila.-e I'AKIS American Laue lu J'arls, M noulerard de t'apiM-lteii. M;AV YUltK G0y lfoue. Win.lsor Hotel and Ator Koune. CHICAGO rainier Howe, Auditorium Hotel and P. O. Co., Id Adams MreeU CINCINNATI J. K. Haw ley Co., 154 Vine treet. lAU'ISVIIXK f. T. Deerliir. northwet corner of TLtrl and Jefrerton aud Lwiwvllle Leok Co., 2J6 uurt!) ae. H. LOl I.-Unlon New Company, Union Depot V ASHINGTON. I. LV Klrc House. KbMtt IIou, U tllanPa 11 oM and the abtntm News LxcLanje, liUi treet. bet. 1 :.u. ove. awl t MreeL Good times or hard times, no protection, measure ever passed has failed to produce sufficient revenue to meet government expenditures. The "comfortable surplus" of which the treasury officials speak with so much assurance was a deficit of J2.000.000 during the first nine days of December. That which la making life a burden to Congrensmen at present Is that there are so many high-priced applicants for ofHce and so many low-salaried places. Controller Johnson will please taxpayers by declaring that no larger levy Is needed for the city, but the taxeaters. who have visions of larger expenditures, will be angry. The presence of Henry Villard among the clvll-service reformers is calculated to provoke cynical comment on the part of those who have been victimized by his railroad schemes. Having abused his own country In England, the only way for Mr. Bayard to even matters up is to come home and abuse England in this country. But that he will never do. The retail price of whisky In Chicago has been reduced to 5 cents a drink, or three for a dime. This will probably secure the Democratic national convention against all other bidders.; It Is proposed to increasethe license fee for saloons in Kentucky in order to pay off the State debt. If such a measure shall increase the price of a drink of "sour mash" there will, be trouble. The New York Herald: Fays that Mr. Cleveland has recommended a , popular loan. If that loan Is intended to be used in. retiring all the greenbacks within a brief period It will not be popular. " If the majority in the House show as much Intelligence, alertness. Industry, zeal' and energy in looking after the public Interests as they have In dividing the House patronage they will make a fine record. It was not that the late Judge Thurman was usually on the right side of public questions that he won public respect, for such was not the case, but it was because of his high integrity In the discharge of public duties. Senator Peffer's effort to abolish congressional funeral junketing excursions ought to be successful, but it will fail, as would an effort to cut off mileage, stationery allowance or any other congressional abuse. Congress never reforms Itself. When Mr. Mawdsley. an English delegate to the American Federation of La bor meeting, said he felt pretty sure that If he were a capitalist he would be as wicked as the other capitalists, he showed he had a good deal of common sense and honesty. Several Chicago papers have figured it out that St. Louts cannot take care of the Republican national convention; nevertheless, those who know that city and its people will not worry lest those who go to the convention will be compelled to sleep out doors. When Minister Thurston, of Hawaii, permitted himself to be Interviewed and In that interview criticised the administration, he was sent home; why should not Embassador Bayard be recalled for slandering a large part of the American people before a British audience? A Washington special to the Louisville Courier-Journal says the President's attention will be called to the Flemingsburg postoffcee case as soon as he returns from his ducking expedition. So the British-Venezuelan controversy and the Cuban question must still give way. The report that the President had returned from duck hunting was premature, and, so long as he is having luck, of -what consequence can It be to him that the American people are anxious to know the contents of the Salisbury letter, which will not be made public until he returns? The Republicans in Washington must do something besides attacking the President. As a rule, the Representative Barretts must be held in check. No party ever won confidence by simply assailing their opponents. To retain an advantage they must do something worthy of It. It la said & bill will be Introduced providing that fourth-class postmasters that fa. those at small offices, shall be elected by the people. Such a law would probably result in more frequent changes of postmasters than occur now, whereas public Interests would be served by less frequent changes. It will be noticed that the price of Trheat dropped because of foreign advices regarding the supply. It was not ccorcity of gold, the noncolnage of silver

or anything of that sort, but the fact that rather more wheat was seeking the European markets than is needed by consumers.

GOV. 3IATTIIEVSS FOOL FRIENDS. Every prominent public man has among his followers and supporters some who possess zeal without knowledge, and who, through ignorance or recklessness, are apt to do him more harm than good. They belong to the class of people who "didn't know it was loaded." In common parlance, they are styled "fool friends." As Governor Matthews has reached the dignity of being a presidential candidate, or aspirant, it would be strange If he did not have fool friends. In fact, they are a necessary adjunct of any presidential boom, a sort, of badge of genuineness and guaranty of good faith. All the same they require watching. Just now the Governor's fool friends are pointing the silver gun at him without knowing it is loaded. Of course, they do not mean to hurt him, and they will not believe it possible for him to receive any injury from an unloaded weapon until It shall go off and kill him. Then they will be very sorry, and wonder how they could ever have been so foolish. The conference of Wednesday showed beyond any doubt that the free silvet Democrats of Indiana Intend to press the issue and Insist on a free silver plank in the next State platform. In the rough-and-tumble discussion of the question which was accidentally precipitated' in the conference they showed a .numerical majority and decided aggressiveness. They talked like men who had knives In their boots and would use them If necessary. Unless something Is done to head them off they will capture the next. State convention and adopt a free silver platform. All these free silver Democrats are In favor of Governor, Matthews for President, as they ought' to be. As a Democrat in good standing and the only possible Democratic candidate In Indiana, he should, of course, have the united support of his party in this State. There is no reason to doubt the sincerity of these free silver Democrats In-their friendship for Governor Matthews, but there is much reason to doubt their, wisdom. They forget that Indiana alone cannot nominate a candidate for President, and that the Democracy of the Eastern States will have nothing to do with a free silver candidate. They could not do Governor Matthews a greater disservice than to have it go out that the Indiana Democracy are for free silver. The adoption of a free silver plank in the State plitform would kill him; not merely embarrass or. injure him, but kill him. Politically speaking, the Governor's fool friends might as well present him with a loving cup of Rough on Rats as Identify the Democracy of his State with free silver. They should learn wisdom from the Governor himself. He discovered some time ago that the free silver gun was loaded, and he promptly laid It down. Ills fool friends should do the same if. they wish to avoid a fatal accident. A CIVll. PENSION 11 ST. In his report the Commissioner ot Pensions recommends that clerks in that bureau who have become unable to5 render any service through age should be pensioned. In an address before the National Civil Service Association, Mr. Foulke' recommended that a fund be raised for the maintenance of superannuated -clerks and other -employes by' an assessment upon their salaries while they are able to do duty. If anything is to be done In the way of providing for clerks in the departments and preventing their retention on the pay rolls when they are unable to render any service, Mr. Foulke's suggestion is the best that can be made. But why make these clerks special beneficiaries? They receive as much compensation, as a rule, as do men and women performing a service . requiring as much intelligence as one must possess to get a clerkship. For the work they actually . perform they receive higher compensation than clerks In private employment, yet there has hot as yet In this country been any proposition made to care for persons in private employment after they are unable to labor. Why discriminate? And Ithis leads to an inquiry as to the necessity of retaining men and women In government clerkships until they become old. Unless they become so expert as to be more useful than ordinary clerks, would it not be better to limit their years of service to eight or twelve? In that time, if they are prudent, they could find employment which would be better; for them than a life in the routine work of a department. An exception should.be made In favor of railway postal clerks, who cannot be said to be clerks in the ordinary sense of the word,' biit officials whose duties require efficiency and alertness. The higher skill and the risk which their work Involves should lead Congress to either increase their compensation or provide a fund for their support when they - are disabled. It requires three times as mucn capacity, If the phrase Is allowable, to make a competent postal clerk as to discharge the routine duties required of a $1,200 department clerk; yet, all things considered, the compensation of the clerk is higher than that of the postal railway official. IIISTOHV REPEATING ITSELF. Hon." Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania, In his criticism of Mr. Cleveland's money borrowing, debt-making policy, said: "The present administration seems to have begun where the Buchanan administration left off." The statement la historically true as well as neatly put. During 'the administration of Buchanan, the last Democratic President before Cleveland, the public debt increased from $31,972,000 In 1S36 to $64,812,000 In 1860, and this In time of peace. During the last year of the administration money was borrowed at a ruinous rate of Interest to meet the necessary expenses of the government. On the 14th of December, 1S33, Congress passed a law authorizing the Issue of 110,000,000 In treasury notes, payable in one year, at the lowest rates offered. The Secretary of the Treasury offered $3,000,000 of the notes, bids to be opened Dec 2S, and when the time came only $100,000 had been offered as low as 12 per cent. There were some offers at 24 per cent. and some as high as 26 per cent. The Secretary rejected all over 12 per cent. As the government needed money at once, it borrowed $1,500,000 of the banks at 12 per cenL A month later It offered

$3,000,000 more of treasury notes, payable in one year, and they were taken at an average rate of 10 per cent. This shows the condition of the national finances In the last year of Buchanan's administration. Thanks to the Republican party, the public credit is a great .deal better now, but owing' to Democratic legislation the revenues of the government are not equal, to Its expenditures, and the deficit has to be made up by borrowing money. Thus It may be fairly said that "the present administration seems to have begun where the Buchanan administration left off." There was a sort of historic propriety In this statement coming from Mr. Grow. He was a member of Congress from 1S31 to 1S63, and personally cognizant of the disgraceful events during Buchanan's administration. Now, after more than thirty years, he is In Congress again and able to testify from personal knowledge that this administration seems to have

begun where that of Buchanan left off. Mr. Grow is a very wid9-awake man, but If he had been asleep thirty odd years and had wakened up In the Treasury Department he would be Justified in thinking that it was still the administration of James Buchanan. DEADLOCK OF THE STATE IIOAUD OF HEALTH. If the State Board of Health is of any practical use to the people of Indiana it should be efficiently organized. When the flr3t attempt was made last spring to elect a secretary qualified for the position, it is said that Dr. Ilurty would have been elected had not the Governor called In the two Democratic members of the board and insisted that they should vote for a Democrat. This statement was made at the time, and it has never been' denied. As a result the matter has dragged along from March, and now there is no adequate organization. The present secretary is said to be unfitted for the position. That the other four members of the board, two Republicans and two Democrats, do not vote for him indicates that they believe he is not the man for the position. So the usefulness of this board, if it has any, Is destroyed by continuing as its executive officer a man for, whom no member of it will vote, and who cannot be expected to do as well as he might under men who have expressed a lack of confidence In him. The deadlock arises over ihe question whether the secretary shall be a" Republican or a Democrat, not over the vastly more. important question of the man best qualified for the position. Now, if this board is of any consequence whatever, its usefulness is being destroyed by this childish contention as to whether the secretary shall be a Republican or a Democrat. He holds an office which cannot affect a public question upon which parties divide. Consequently, if he Is a skillful and energetic man It matters not whether he Is a Republican or , Democrat. An Inefficient Republican could be no more effective in efforts to check smallpox or other epidemics than an inefficient Democrat. It may be that the State Board of Health is not needed. The course pursued by its members Is certainly calculated to give that impression. The alleged action of the Governor in advising Democratic members of the board to refuse to vote for any man for secretary, even so able a man as Dr. Hurty, indicates that he cannot lelieve that its mission is an important one. If he does, If such a board Is necessary In his Judgment to look after the sanitary conditions of the State, and he prevents its organization until a member of his staff can be elected secretary, he shows how Immeasurably more Important he regards the appointment of a Democrat for a nonpartisan position than the efficient management of a board which deals with the public health. If this board cannot be organized at a very early day with an efficient secretary, the Legislature should abolish it when it meets or so change the law creating it that its executive officer shall not continue to be a bone of contention between spoils mongers. The bill of Senator Davis, of Minnesota, does not establish the rank of lieutenant-general on the active list or add another officer to the list, but simply provides that the senior major general, while commanding the army, shall have the rank, pay and emoluments of a lieutenant general. After the honor bestowed upon General Schofleld It should not be denied to such officers as Miles and Merritt. It would be much better for the Republicans In the Senate to let the finance committee stand Instead of reorganizing It so that the free coinage Senators shall control It; but the Democratic papers have no chance to make objection so long as all of their members on that committee are in favor of free coinage. The County Commissioners have done the proper thing In the manner of their advertising for bids for county printing In that they have reserved the right to reject any and all bids, in whole or in part. This will tend to prevent bidders from following the too prevalent custom of making low prices on the class of goods of vhich but little is bought, and making up the loss and a large profit by putting high prices on such items as are used in large quantities. The so-called "cute" bid .will not avail under such a rule. The State officers recently effected a large saving to the State by following this plan, but under the rule adopted by the commissioners they will be able to do relatively as well with much less labor in carrying out the figures. nunuLEs ix the air. Information Wanted. "Say, paw." "Paw." "Oh. pawl" "What the what do you want?" "If a reindeer got froze, would he be an icedeer?" Kind. The Father Yes, Mrs. Brown, Willie still believes In Santa Claus. I wouldn't undeceive him for the world. WillieYes. fellars. the old man t'inks I still believe the Santa. Claus rake. I wouldn't tell him different fer de world. No Soolnllst. "Could I get you to peruse these pamphlets that I am distributing to ali the cause of Christian socialism?" asked the longhaired gentleman. "Xo much. Mary Ann." said the fat gentleman. it was at a church social that I first met my wife." The Cheerful Idiot. "It looks to me," said the large-minded boarder, "that the best way for the powers to settle the division of Turkey would be by casting lots in some form or other." "You think, then," eaid the Cheerful

Idiot, "that it would be better to shoot craps than Krurps." CVIirtEXT PERIODICALS. Among the features of Donahoe's Magazine for December are Illustrated papers on the holy childhood In art, the mound-bulld-ers of America, dramatics In Catholic col lege3 and papal Avignon. Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours for Boys and Girls Is a well illustrated and typographically attractive monthly containing a' good variety of stories and other juvenllb literature. The current Issue will commend itself to Boys particularly, because it tells them "how to win at football." The Christmas number of the Book Buyer (Scribner's) gives enticing glimpses into all the new books cf the season, being at one a guide to those undecided what to buy and a source of entertainment to the busy people who must content themselves with mere gllmpres Into current literature. The third quarterly issue of the Cyclopedic Review of Current History (Buffalo) covers the events of the year from July 1 to Sept. SO. and is a most convenient book of reference. It comes in pamphlet form, and its matter is so carefully edited and condensed that It Is contained in ISO pages. The Monthly Illustrator Is filled with re productions of the work of well-known artists, with especial attention given to pictures relating to the Christmas season. It has a varied table of contents, the lit crary features rince the union of the maga zine with Home and Country having takeu a wider scope. The Strand Magazine is one of the cheaper English periodicals, each number being complete In itself and selling at 10 cents a copy. It is well printed and illusfated, and strictly English in -till its characteristics. Like American magazines, however, it Is affected by the Napoleon craze, and in the current issue offers facsimiles of his signatures. Tho Christmas number of the Pali Mall Magazine numbers among its contributors Arthur Symons, Lord Ernst Hamilton, Grant Allen, Christian Burke, Sara Jeannette Duncan, the Duchess of Cleveland and I. Zangwlll. The pictorial features of this magazine are far superior to those of any other English periodical outside of the art publications. A variety of subjects which thinking people talk about are discussed In the December Eclectic Among them may be mentioned "The New Spirit , In History." "The Ethical Solution of One Social Problem." "Gaps in Agnostic Evolution," i.nd "Pasteur and His Work," the last named being the contribution of a biologist. From the Nineteenth Century is taken ?a Medical View of Miracles at Lourues." The Philistine discourses at some length on "The Charity that Paul Forgot." "He has given us," it says,' "the charity that suffers and is kind, that forgets self, that Is superior even to , martyrdom and the giving of all to the poor; and that is chief of all virtues, the very' spirit of goodness. But Paul of Damascus lived eighteen hundred years ago. He knew all the kinds of charity that were In vogue In the first century. He did not know, or he forgot, organized charity." Rev. Edward Everett Hale says in Book News: "I would trust a boy in any gen tleman's library to choose for himself; observing that it must be a gentleman's IN brary, and not a blackguard's. If I were buying books for presents for him I would in all cases buy books of action, of adventure, of natural science or of the open air. Boys have a strong sense of honor, but excepting that I do. not think they care about sentiment in. any of its forms. If they were introspective, as, thank God, they are not, I would never tempt them into the dangerous line of looking in rather than looking out." . .1, The Arena for December offers the first Installment of a series of recollections of America's "seven great poets." The contributions come from'MInot J. Savage, John W. Chadwlck, F. B. Sanborn, Edward Everett Hale, Mary B. Clafiln and Henrietta S. Nahmer. They contribute recollections of Lowell, Emerson, Holmes, Whlttler and Bryant Chadwick and Savage both writing on Emerson. The identity of Numbers C and 7, of the list of poets remains hidden. Among other contributions is one bv Henry GaullJeur. on .the wonders of hypnotism as recently-'demonstrated by leading French scientists. The Commercial Travelers Home Magazine is a very well edited 'publication. Its contents are varied and are not confined to original contributions, selections, especially of verse, being included in the literary menu offered. One contribution of particular interest in the current issue is a study of wood and process engraving. The "Pingree potato patch" plan is described In detail and its possibilities of extension set forth: The periodical professes to be "devoted to literature, trade, finance, manufacturing and transportation." and supports its claim admirably. It is pub lished at Binghamton, N. Y. Grover's Supreme Idea. Salisbury's letter may go to grass, Monroe may go to shucks; Doctrines come and doctrines pass. While I go hunting, ducks. Waller may in prison rot. And curse ten thousand lucks; But I must not nay I wlU not Cut short my hunt for ducks. Venezuela may be annexed To England's chariot trucks; But I must not be cloyed and vexed While hunting Tar Heel ducks. Let Congress plan, and work, and talk, Like loyal laddio bucks; 3dv message shows the-m how to walk T1U I'm through hunting ducks. New York Evening Sun. FINANCIAL CONCERN.

The President Criticised by Bankers for Ills Inuction. New York Letter in Philadelphia Press. Since Saturday many expressions of surprise and anxiety have been heard from local bankers and financiers because of the delay in sending to Congress the report of the Secretary of the Treasury. The surprise is occasioned because it has been presumed that Mr. Carlisle would in detail report upon those subjects which the President treated in a general way in his message. The anxiety Is due to the fear that Mr. Carlisle may have held back his report so long that he might elaborate certain recommendations not suggested by the President's message. "I am very anxious about Mr. Carlisle's report," said an ex-Controller of the Currency this morning. "If I could be sure that ho would go no further than the President did, then I should have no apprehensions," and this comment suggests what many other bankers have been saying. The wonder has been whether Mr. Carlisle would suggest,' as he ha3 before, that the law requiring national banks to keep a reserve be repealed. It has not escaped notice here that the President, while recommending the cancellation of the legal tenders. Bald nothing about the embarrassment such action would cause the banks, unless some other provision was made for the reserve. That Mr. Cleveland did not mention this has caused the Impression to become general that he agrees with Mr. Carlisle and would favor the abolishment of the reserve feature of the national banking system. Aside from the fact that if the greenbacks were to be retired without also repealing the bank reserve law complications would arise, bankers speak of another and greater objection. Not one of them with whom the Press correspondent has spoken has failed to express the opinion that to abolish the reserve would be a very dangerous step. Mr. Hepburn says that it should not be for an instant thought of, unless the banking laws are so changed as to permit the national banks to establish branches, as is done in Scotland. Another thing Is being more and more talked of here, and that Is the lnacuracy, not to say disingenuousness, of that part of the President's message which Intimates that the sale of bonds was not made necessary In order to get funds to meit the treasury obligations. Every clearing house banker in this city remembers that in the first twelve months of Mr. Cleveland's administration $73.00.000 In gold was paid Into the New York clearing house by the subtreasury here because the government had nothing but gold with which to meat these obligations upon It. Chicago's Disappointment. Washington Special. With one accord tho Chicago crowd holds S. W. Allerton responsible for the lake city's falldown, but insiders do not believe Chicago would have secured the prize in any event. The game was set up against her from the start. Still, a scapegoat Is necessary, and Mr. Allerton has won that unhappy distinction. If he had joined the others of the delegation in pledging the hundred-thousand-dollar fund they think the committee would have named Chicago.

He defen3ed himself on the ground that if he signed the pledge he would be putting himself in the attltud of an indorser on $100,000 of unscrutlnliei papers, which was, to his shrewd and careful mind, a most unbuslness-llke proceeding. It was a risk he did not feel like assuming. This view was not wholly complimentary to the other gentlemen cf the delegation, but Mr. Allerton was a free agent and of legal age. When he quit the delegation had nothing to do but throw ujt Its hands and stand pat on a guarantee of some $50,000, which the richest man among them had stamped 'undoubtful."

WHAT ME. UAYACD SAID. The Text of Ills Remarks Shows that He Was Not Misrepresented. Embassador Bayard Is said to have expressed the opinion that those who were criticising his recent speech had read only a synopsis, and not the speech itself. The full text of the speech, which was received yesterday by Hen. W. H. English, of this city, by mall, and printed in the News, shows that his denunciation of protection and Its corrupting and demoralizing Influence on American politics and public men was much more sweeping, severe and illtempered than the telegraphic synopsis made it. A portion of his remarks is appended: Justice enthroned on law is tho only protection of the humble and defenseless. How shal justice be enthroned but by a united public opinion demanding it? And the demand must originate in the articulate individual conscience, which must be listened to and respected, or we shall be ground down by the despotism of numbers, or military autocracy, or aggregated wealth, enacting and compelling obedience to laws, not to establish justice and Insure domestic tranquillity, but to secure unjust privUeges and unequal advantage. In my own country I have witnessed the Insatiable growth of that form of State socialism styled "protection," which I believe has done more to foster class legislation and create inequality of fortune, to corrupt public life, to banish men of independent mind and character from the public councils, to lower tho tone of national representation, blunt public conscience, create false standards in the popular mind, to familiarize it with reliance upon state aid and guardianship in private affairs, divorce ethics from politics, and place politics upon the low level of a mercenary scramble, than any other single cause. Step by step, and largely 'owing to the confusion of civil strife, it has-succeeded in obtaining control of. the sovereign power of taxation, never hesitating at any alliance, or the resort to any combination that promised to assist its purpose of perverting public taxation from its only true Justification and function, of creating revenue for the support or the government of the whole people into an engine ior. tne seinsn ana private pront or allied beneficiaries and combinations, called "trusts." Under Its dictation individual enterprise and Independence have been opressed, and the energy of discovery and Invention debilitated and discouraged. It has unhesitatingly allied Itself with every policy which tends to commercial isolation, dangerously depletes the treasury, a ad saps the popular conscience by schemes of corrupilng favor and largesse to special classes, whose support is thereby attracted. Thus it has done so much to throw legislation into the political market where jobbers and chatterers take the place of statesmen. The words of Lowell's warning well apply: "Rough are the steps, slow-hewn In flintiest rock. States climb to power by; slippery those with gold Down which they stumble to eternal mock; No chafferer's hand shall long the scepter hold. Who. given a fate to shape, would sell the block." It is incorrect to speak of "protection" as a national policy, for that It can never be, because it can never be other than the fostering of special Interests at the expense of the rest, and this overthrows the great principle of equality before tho law, and that resultant sense of Justice and equity in the administration of sovereign powers which is the true cause ot domestic tranquUlity and human contentment. The value of "protective" taxation to its beneficiaries consits in its inequality, for without discrimination in favor of some one there is no advantage to anyone, and it the tax is equally laid on 'all, all will be kept upon the relative level from which they started; and this simply means a high scale of living to all. high cost of production of everything and consequent Inability to compete anywhere outside the orbtt of such restrictive laws. But the enfeeblement of individual energies and the impairment of manly selfreliance are necessarily Involved, and the belief In mysterious powers of the state and a reliance upon them to take the place of Individual exertion fosters the growth of state socialism, and personal liberty ceases to be the great end of government. How can we fall to perceive that it is fatal to hopes of advancement or even of retention of what has been gained by civilization when Individual freedom and idiosyncrasies of personal character are impeded or cramped in their free expansion by the stupid interference of inflexible labor laws, which may be reasonably applicable to one description of human exertion and yet wholly unadapted for others; beneficial to on man. hurtful to another; a benefit to on class, a curse to another; repressing activity, discouraging energy and enterprise, and tending only to establish a standard of dull and hopeless mediocrity? I can imagine no more unhappy fate than for a man to be chained to an occupation below the natural level of his capacities-cruelly cramped in his aspirations and forbidden to rise to his full intellectual and moral stature. And vain and irreverent are all such attempts to establish a dead level in human faculties of body or mlnd-a bod of Procrustes on which the bodies and minds of men are to be stretched or maimed, but never to rest hi peace. v - Jostah Qnlney's Election. Boston Transcript (Ind.) This is a Democratic party sweep at an election where national politics should not haVe intruded. It has been won by a party which makes no pretension of nonpartisanship in local affairs, but believes in dividing a 1 the offices among the active worker? Wc shall see in due time with what urres Mr. Quincy meets the pressure which he is certain to encounter, ft. however can be said with considerable confidence, and without awaiting the results of Mr Quincs struggles with the spoilsmen of his own party, that the result of placing thU year's municipal election an the party line of national politics has set back the caSso of partisanship in Boston local affairs many years. If this elect loo i is any test it will only be necessary to raise the party warwhoop hereafter to overwhelm all attempts at electing municipal officers on any other than political grounds. It cannot b? regarded in any other light than a retrograde step towards unalloyed partisanship in municipal concerns. . "Wbltelaw Iteld's "Whereabouts. Philadelphia Times. Whltelaw Reld. owner and editor of the New York Tribune, is spending the winter quietly with his family at Phoenix, A. T.. where he bad rented a house and found the climate unexpectedly agreeable In a letter to the Times, speaking of the Arizona region, he says: "Eastern folks will Save to form new Ideas of Arizona. It is not merely a land of tarantulas. Apaches and cactus. I am keeping house here with Sna : Smfort. in a well-built brick residence with hot and cold water, electric ltiht 'and telephone, and the climate is reallv better than that of Cairo." The friends of Mr. Reld will be gratified to learn that his health has greatly improved since his visit to the South. Cameron's Retirement. Philadelphia Inquirer. The letter of Senator Cameron to State Senator McCarrell. declaring that under no circumstances would he be a candidate for re-election, will be accepted in good faith. Once before Senator Cameron caused it to be announced that he was not a candidate. This was in 1834, when the Independent movement was at its height. He went to Europe, end returned not only to be a candidate, but to be elected. But there Is no hidden motive in this letter. It is plain, straightforward and to the point. He is not and will not be a candidate, he says, and he makes his position known, so that his friends who have offered him their support may have exact information. 1 ' Cleveland and Ducks. Kansas City Journal. Mr. Cleveland has the wrong conception of the presidency. He Is not a. monarch Into whose movements the people must not presume to inquire. He is, or should be, a Bervant of the people, an employe, paid a stipulated sum to perform stipulated duties a sum which In his cm e is vastly in excess of the equivalent he has rendered. In choosing ducks before duty at a time when the Imfrortance of duty is emphasized by a pressng emergency and the pendency of vital interests. Mr. Cleveland shows a woeful lack of both discretion and patriotism. ' A Microscopical Wonder. Chicago Dispatch. A dispatch from Columbus says that "the Ohio Democracy may be split." Well, welll The wonders of microscopy never cease to surprise and startle us.

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ELUCIDATION AND REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DEC. 13. David and Jonalhnn, as Related In First Samuel xx. Verses 32-42 The Power of the Divine Grace. By REV. JAMES E. GILBERT, D. D., Secretary of the American Society of Religious Education. (These lessons constitute the Sundayschool extension department of the above named society. All who study them are reSuested to send their names, poitoffice ad ress and denomination, mentioning this paper, to the author at Washington, D. C, for enrollment.) CONTEXT. Lost lesson closed with David standing on the dead body of Goliath, whose head he held in one hani. whose sword he grasped with the other hand. Pleased with this exhibition of braver-, Saul took him Into his service. David's manner and spirit won the heart of Jonathan, Saul's son, and the affection was returned end a covenant made. (Ch. xviii, S.) Jonathan , gave his garments, sword, bow and girdle to hi new-made friend, who went out afterward at the King's direction and gained victories. Oa returning, he was greeted with shouts by the women. These demonstrations awakened the Jealousy of Saul who, on several occasions, attempted David's life. Even the King's daughter was given in Vnarriage, after a snare had been laid. (Ch. xvlil, 21.) Matters came at last into a desperate state, and David felt that there "was but a step between him and death. (Ch. xx, 3.) He opened his heart to Jonathan, who remained steadfast, notwithstanding his father's eramlty, and they devised a plan by which to .test the 'real purpose of the King and to determine what course to pursue. -l MEDIATOR. It was agreed that on" a certain feast occasion David should return to hi3 father's house with Jonathan's approval. As it was customary for the King's family to assemble at such, times, Saul's deposition might be judged as he noticed the absence." It occurred as was anticipated. Jonathan answered his father's questions. Saul's anger was Instantly kindled against his son. auhougn previously they had been on terms of great intimacy and affection, which fact had given ground for hope of successful intercession. (Ch. xx, 2.) He employed highly abualve language accused Jonathan of duplicity, declared that the friendship for David would result in his ruin and keep htxn from the throae. It is evident that he had knowledge of the tact that the ton of Jess had oetn anointed by Samuel. He then demanded that David be brought and put to death. "Wherefore should he be slain?" Interposed Jonathan (Prov. xxlv, 11, 12), like a trus mediator. What hath he doner By asnlng lor the nature of David's offense tJohn vii, 51), be made an appeal to the sense of Justice, which is, to some extent, in every heart, hoplug to turn aside the wrath ot vhe Kiag, as he had previously done. (i'h. xlx. 4.) PASSION. The questions had Just the opposite effect. (Prov. xxli, 24.) Saul perceived that his son had conndence in David, that lie desired to shield him. and would even prevent his father's designs. The evil spirit that had controlled him since his rejection now wrought mightily, and Hwept across bis soul with tremendous force. (Luke ix, 39.) A storm of ungovernable passion raged. Seizing a javelin, the King cast it with muraerous force to sanlte Jonathan. The atrocity of such an attempt seems to some persons totally incredible, and yet it bears no proportion to his buosequent Impious and most barbarous murder of the priests, their wives and children (Ch. xxll. 11-19). because the latter was deliberate, while the former web the result of sudden and furious rage. Rising quickly from the table, Jonathan escaped, his heart beating with indignation and grief. (Mark ill. 6.) He not only saw what was in store for his friend, but also the deplorable state into which his father had fallen, a kind of desperate madnefs, endangering the. lives of his household, destined to end in his destruction. (Ch. xxxl, 6.) SIGNAL. Jonathan did not fall to keep his pledge with David. At the . appointed ! time next morning, having absented himself from his father meanwhile, he went out to the field, accompanied by a lad. Shooting an arrow, he sent the lad to bring it, crying, "Is it not beyond thee? Make speed, haste, stay not." This was the agreed signal by which David, who had concealed himself in the field, might know of Saul's evil purpoje and secure himself by retirement. The people of the East, as best suited their ardent nature, were accustomed to express many things . by actions, sometimes by actions accompanied by words. (Job 11. 12.) This procedure, however, was not wholly because of such custom. When Jonathan and David made this arrangement, three days before (Ch. xx, 20, 21), they did not know that they could meet alone in the field, and they desired a method of communication which might be understood by them, but be unintelligible to any others who might be within hearing distance. When two hearts are Joined in friendship, they frequently have secrets and seek modes of confidential intercourse. GREETING. It so occurred that no one was in the field. Delivering his bow and arrows to the lad (who understood not the significance of what had transpired), and dismissing him, Jonathan advanced, and David came out of his biding place. The greeting was prolonged and cordial. David's conduct united all the respect and honor due to Jonathan's rank with the most endeared affection and glowing gratitude. He fell on his face to the ground, an act of respect bestowed upon a superior or benefactor In Oriental countries. (Gen. xllll, 26. And this he did thrice, comCletlng the duty of reverence, as the rabIs claim, although Jacob exceeded this. (Gen xxxiil, 3.) When the two met they embraced and kissed each other. This was no unusual practice in those days (Gen. xlvill, 10), the simplicity of manner among men leading them to conduct now common sonly among women. Whether the people of the West have gained by maintaining more reserve is a matter of some uncertainty. In this instance, looking backward and considering all the circumstances, no one can fall to admire the unrestrained expression of David and Jonathan, each for the other. SORROW. There was more than love In that greeting. Mingled with it and intensifying it was sorrow. There Is no affection so deep, so beautiful, as that of adversity (Prov. xvll, 17), and grief makes one hungry for that which love has to bestow. Jonathan's sorrow was partly for his father, but chiefly for David, whom he admired and loved for his excellent qualities and for his undoubted future as the servant of God.But David's sorrow, while It may have been tinged by regret for the King, was chiefly due to his own misfortunes. He considered himself an exile, destined to wander from place to place, at every moment exposed to the King's wrath. He must leave his wife and children, and he must be excluded from the ordinances cf religion. It was. Indeed, an hour of sore trial to one who for a few years before had been anointed King.' How strange .to him must have appeared th ways of Providence. And so the two. In sorrowful affection, folded in each other's embrace, weeping together (Acts xx, 37) "until David exceeded." COMFORT. Jonathan first gained control of his emotions and sought to strengthen the. heart of his friend. When the fountain of tears has been opened the mind Is clearer and the speech is sweeter. After such exChanges the son of the King may utteiwhat the trembing heart of the persecuted will receive like cordial. "For as much as we have sworn, both of us. in the name of the Lord." Jonathan began, recalling that covenant which they had made at their first acquaintance, explaining and renewing it. By this It appeared that they were bound together because of their loyalty tc God. Their friendship was rooted in piety. (I Pet. i. 22.) No other would have endured the strain. Jonathan proceeded: "The Lord be between me and thee and between my seed and thy saed forever." In the most solemn manner he assumes and enjoins a perpetual obligation, he to be David s friend, David to be his friend, that relation to be extended to their posterity, witnessed and approved and blessed by the God of Israel. SEl,AKAT10X.-"Go in peace " said Jonathan, a dismissal with Player-keep a good ieart. trust in the I-ord. all will toe w11, ha intended to say encourangly. David In tears needed such parting blessing, for his heart clung to his benefactor like the storm-shaken vine to the oak. (Prov. xxvll, 17.) They separated, never to meet again in this world. tave once to reassure each other's hearts and reaffirm their vows. (Ch. xxlll, IS.) Jonathan returned to the city, to hia home, to share the fortunes of hia father, ultimately with that father to die on the field of battle (Ch. xxxi. J), at the hand of a Philistine. And David went forth to Nob (Ch. xxi. 1). a prlesta' city in Benjamin, and thence a wanderer from place to place, a fugitive from the wrathful king. Sustained by his faith In God. and by the last words of Jonathan, he waited patiently while the weary years passed, never doubting that the day of his hopes would dawn and he should find Jits appointed place and mission, learning meanwhile In the hard school of attllctkra thosa

wholesome lessons that prepare for service, (II Cor. lv, 17.) CONCLUSION. Friendship contract?! with the wicked decreases from hour to hour. like the early shadow of the momlnc: but friendship with the virtuous will increase like th shadow of the evening, till the sun of lifo shall set. Historian anl poets have delighted to recount the instances In which men have Wen made to love and trust each other. The school children have read the story of Epsminondas and Pellpldas, of the Greeks; of Orestes and Prlades, of the Scythians; of Damon and Pythias, two celebrated Syracusan. Bat these, the brightest examples of what Is possible to unrenewed hearts, are rot worthy to be compared with the exhibition of mutual regard between David and Jonathan. This shows what divine grace can do, and what a world of blessdnes wouil be ushered in if all hearts were subject to that grac. What the heathen world has admired. Christianity Is designed to pro duce. (Acts iv. 32.) What every heart nods. the gospel will supply. (Prov. xviii, 21.) This is part of the feast to which all are invited. (I John I. 3.) And Peter. "Tell His disciples and Peter." The same One who forsook Him; the same who denied Him when need was gitatrst; who thre times cried "I know Him not; the Peter whose sham Mutt have burned with an ever-growing flame Each day he remembered how vaunted pride. And much-boasted loyalty leaned aside When the summons f r fealty came. And we who deny Him with coward soul. Who daily for pardon must humbly sue. Oft losing sight of the heavenly goal. Yet faltering courage and hope renew As the beautiful words on the air Hill roll. "Go tell His disciples and Teter, too." May W. Donnaa. THUNDER FROM BELKNAP.

The Admiral Would Protect Oar Frontier at Any Coat. Detroit Special, , . Admiral George B. Belknap has written a letter to Richard P. Joy. of this city, commending an article written by the latter and published in th Marine Review.' of Cleveland, advocating the abrogation of the treaty with Great Britain prohibiting the building of war ships on the great lakes. Admiral Belknap says. In part: "it the shipbuilders at our ports on the great lakes cannot be allowed to compete with the shipbuilders In other partf of the country In the building cf vessel for our navy by reason of tho treaty with Great Britain, it is high time that such treaty. were amended, that our shln-buiidinc plants wherever located, may have an equal chance in the matter of government work. "Independently of what Capada may be doinp In the construction of team vessels for her lake marine, readily convertible into eticctlve gunboats. Grat-Britain relies upon the facility of the Weliand canal for the ready asrembllng of her gunboats and small cruisers in th- re&t lakes in the. event of war wilh the United States. With a well-digested policy, indomitable push and sleepless foresight, ever looking towards future contingencies and the expansion of the empire, British statesmen, when they do not play the part of a bully after the methods of Lord Palmers ton, make their designs under cover of a velvet-handed diplomacy a seductive as It is dangerous. Too often in truth, it lulls other'powers, and especially the too trustful United States, into a blind and sometimes fatal sense of security. "The siren song of 'Britannia is contlnuallv sounded in our cars. In notes exalting the ties of kindred blood and tongue, but when we look about us and note the fact that three-quarters of our diplomatic contentions of any note are with Great Britain and her super-loyal colony, the Dominion of Canada, we may well look askance at their professions of fair dealing and sincerity. Insatiate Britannia, Indeed, never relaxea her vigilance in any direction, and whenever she detects a crack of opportunity in any quarter, she inserts on the Instant a wedge of claim and demand, and at the propitious moment for herself, drives it home with dogged purpose and resistless blows, regardless of the sensibilities or the rhrht of other powers save, perhaps. Russia, Frsnce and Germany. At this time. In fact, every mail from Alaska brings tidings of her alleged efforts to appropriate valuable points and Islands along lhe coast line of that territory. Just as s h laid claim to the island of San Yuan In Puget sound, after the conclusion of the treaty of 186 defining Our northwest boundary. The . British.' -maw, indeed, never gets its fill. "Commerce is the handmaid of civilization and every nation has the indubitable right to protect its ships, wherever they msy be. Therefore, our great tonnage on the lakes should have the protection that forts and war ships alone can give. What right has England to insist that the United States shall not keep a naval forco. of whatever strength they choose on the great lakes. Let the people of the North- . west demand protection ashore and afloat and where England or her meddlesome ftrovince, Canada, mans or floats on gua et us meet each one with two." II. R. II. Wni Amused. London Letter. I met Fanny Brough, the leading actress at the Drury Lane, the other night. She is a bright, thin, wiry little body, with, keen. Intelligent .eyes, and a fine comedy nose. The nostrils seem to scent fun. The possessor of the nostrils slmplj' bristles with anecdote. "Oh, Mary Rourke." said she. "Yes, one of the cleverest actressat on our stage. Clever on. you know, but prim, precise and most proper off. One night after the curtain was down I think she told me she was In a hurry that night; she had to go on to the suburbs; living there, I believe. Well, that night she had been playing remarkably well; word came to her that the Prince of Wales had seen her, and asked the privilege of being introduced to her. Rourke flared up immediately. "That profligate!' she shoutei. That libertine! Never 1 Then she rushed out of her dressing room, almost into the arms of H. R. IL, who was in the hallway anl had heard every word of her tirade, and wa almost bent double with laughter. As soon as his roval highness saw the fair author of these highly treasonable remarks he sobered invmedlately, took oft his hat. and, bowing low, allowed the confused actress to pass rapidly by him and vanish through the stage door into the street." Carkoo Bailey of Texas. New York Evening Sun. Listen to the singing of the cuckoo bird. Mr. Bailey, of Texas, has Introduced a bUl "to secure the separation and Independence of the executive and legislative departments by forbidding Senators and members from soliciting, directly or Indirectly, the-, appointment of persons to office. ' In other , words, the independence of the legislative branch is to be obtained by depriving it of even the right of suggestion. There 1 only one thing left, and that Is to. take away the necessity of confirmation by the Senate. Why limit the benevolent activi- . ties of a truly consecrated one? Vale Cameron. Kansas City Journal. Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsylvania, has rendered the Republican party of that State the sreatest service that lay 1n nil power bv announcing that he will not b a candidate for re-election. He has saved his party from the unpleasant necessity of defeating him as a means of demonstrating its own dignity and Integrity. Unprepossessing. New York Mall and Express. Judging from the newspaper pictures of Herr Ahlwardt, the famous "Jew baiter" of Germany who is now with us, he Is unfortunate in not having been able to change his face before leaving home. aaaiBBBaaaaBBBBaBBamBaBBBaaBiaBBaBaaBaemaaBaBaBawe) Right Idea. Detroit Tribune. We don't know that we are particularly horrified at the prospect cf a billion-dollar Congress. If we are a nonpareil country we don't care to be set In pica any more. Overworked. Detroit Tribune, We don't care to raise any unpleasant issues, but we deem it our duty, to say that the Turkish crisis Is impending more than eight houra a day. ' - . They Should. Christian Advocate. Intentional train wreckers, on clear and direct proof, should suffer the penalty of murder In the nrt degree, whether human life is lost or not. - Ear Itellef. Kansas City Journal. If Mr. Bayard doesn't like it be should remember that it will only coat 'a few cents to mall his resignation to Washing ton. Quite Profitable. Washington PostSenator Sherman is sai l to have realized nr.QuO on his recollections up to date. UU la a very good memory.