Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1895 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATTTRDAT, FEBRUARY 16. 1893.

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AffAtn&t the eeaiulaL When they b«#ln to ask themselves this question they* will And it impossible to answer it iu any way except one. ami that is that the nun who vote for a contlnuarn-e of the pass privilege are themselves cither the present or prospective owners of passes. And that Is about what the whole mutter mines to.

bonds expire*. So the whole matter is I now In the hands of the fYesident. The 1 country i* to be congratulated that It Is in such ijood hands. Mr. Cleveland Is thor- j otiffhly soun|| on the money question, and he is not afraaid to do his duty. Put he j eat* not do much to relieve the Kcncr.il ' situation. For such relief f e shall have ! to look to Congress, and it is to be hoped that tho next Congress will be an in.- ; prnvement over the present one. In one j way the outlook is not encouraging. The i

SATURDAY. FEBRUARY IS. VSH.

SAVb' THU mSVMKST.

Wa continue to urge upon the Legisla-

, lure that one of the things it ought to j Republican party seems to be about as

do with great promptness is to abolish the Monument Commission. Events, the

T11F SUGAR DIFFERKSTJAL. Che finance committee of the Senate yesterday ma le • favorable report on the Bill abolishing the discriminating duty of one-tenth of a cent a 1 pound upon sugar doming from countries which pay a bounty on IU export. It Is to be hoped that this bill may pass. There Is nothing In this duty for any one except the refiners. ft Is a tax upon the people of the whole country, for which they get not •ven the pretense of an equivalent. So far from this being the case, the tax m question has resulted In seriously crippling several Important Industries by provoking foreign countries to close their ■ ports to the products of those Industries. The policy which dictated the imposition of this tax and which threatens to secure Its continuance is both silly and wicked. It is protection In its most odious and extravagant form. But no sooner had the report of the finance committee been presented than Senator Aldrich popped up and moved to recommit the bill, with instructions to add to It the reciprocity provision of the McKinley tariff, to place a bounty on domestic sugar and to provide for revenue to make good the deficiencies supposed to have resulted from the additions to the free list made by the present law. Whatever may have been the motive of Mr. Aldrich, it is evident that he can easily kill the bill by Insisting on his amendments. It may be that T>uch is his purpose. But, whether It is or not, he will do well to be careful about doing Anything to prevent the enactment of a law which Is demanded by every consideration of Justice. The report of the finance committee is right, and it should have been adopted as soon as presented. It Is not at all necessary to go into a long and partisan discussion over the Virtues of reciprocity. All such questions •re irrelevant. Reciprocity may be a good thing or u bad thing, but there can be no doubt that the sugar differential Is wholly bad — bad In principle and bad In ft* effect. This being so is It too much to expect that Republicans and Democrats will finite In doing a manifest act of Justice to the American people? The bill was not recommitted yesterday, but is, together mlth the committee's report and the resolution of Mr. Aldrich, before the Senate. It should be passed at once. The session Is rapidly drawing to a close, and there }s not much time left. If anything is to be done it will have to be done quickly. And nothing will be .done If the resoiuiion Of Mr. Aldrich Is to be taken seriously.

most calamitous of which is Mr. MacMonnfes’s withdrawal from work on the monument, have proved that the Monument Commission, as at present conj stituted. Is not fitted for the work. We mean In this no reproach to It nor any member of It. As we have said before, it is not surprising that men should not ' have an acquaintance with art, particuj larly In thia country, where >our time and energie# have been given over to : material development. Nor Is ! a reproach that men have [ artistic instincts and the temperament that leads them quickly to ap-

badiy split on the money question as is j its adversary, ami in addition to that unfortunate fact, it must not be forgotten ; that the new Congress will be-full of new and untried men. So it will be well not to expect too much. Something may be accomplished; we hope a great deal will ; be accomplished. But the outlook is not

unshadowed.

The First Word. Silence mysterious of the Word divine, 'Hist spcitkx not as with lip* and yei is heard: Wherefrom all life jjn.w* liki* h xpritigin* vine. All thought comes winging like the herald bird: Wa* It not Mii-h a Rilenco hroodod there— Sweet restful hush os of the glimmering davniWhcn watchful Joseph knelt In holy prayer Mestih- the prince of Peace new-born? The stow moon* passed, and fruitful silence kept IU home within the sacred, simple child. Yet truth wa* in HI* breathing while He slept: H*aven's life whnnb from Htra when He w-oke and smiled. Upon the Infant silence of HI* face Calm meditation of Hts mother's eye In silence rested, pure and full of grace; Voiceless, jet speaking, like the eternal sky. So Blessed Mary and St. Joseph held Their vigils o’er the Word incarnate made; Waiting the utterance pure that earliest welled From that deep heart, those lips in light arrayed.

SUMMER IS SURE TO GOME

ol.n nOfTRIVES A \ D DARKNESS DISAPPEARING.

Nniwe-w of fluking ntltl Mend 1 ug—It 1* Not God** Hill Thnt Men Should Starve In the Midst of Plentr and Freeze In a Coal Yard.

Happily, there is a way of preserving the Government’s credit without the help

of Congress.

Chicago Is much obliged to the President , for the signature be affixed to her post-

il 1 office bill.

not ' ■

When was It spoken , When did that first word

Ing Time?

stirred

Break on ihe faithful ear of listenin

We know- not. But Its gentle All earth and heaven as

chime.

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with

glorious

Queen Ldliuokalarfi recorded this In her ' diary: “J. O. Carter called to-day and de-

, .....^'' j llvered President Cleveland's present to i predate th* best tilings in art. these are j me ., send Boutelle on another i

| nil gifts, as well as acquirements. But : scent>

where men have not these gifts, nor ac- I : qulrements, they certainly should not be ^ urge the Legislature to pass the bill j monument: commissioners. That a man compelling street ^Uroads to pave their J knows how to drive a sharp bargain with 1 rac ^* ™‘ 3 19 * b 11 V u . t I

: benefit all the cities in the State. It Is not '

! a contractor or knows how to amass peou , lar to Jn(lianapolls . Care shou i d p* money. Is not argument that he jl* titted taken that it Is not. That Is to say, to pass upon artistic conceptions. scrutiny should be exercised to make It We wish to repeat what we have said assured that no wording of the bill shall

What was the word? W» know not. On an ere Perchance like this, when Qod's clear splendor shone Through sunset, and made doubting hearts believe They dwell not on this distant earth alone— On such an eve, when level lines of cloud Glowed like archangel's wings, and seemed so near. The Chriet child spoke, and looked up, openb rowed; And from that Instant died ail mortal fear. Whate’er the word. It meant Truth, Peace and Love. The heavens bowed down; the earth rose up in Joy, Transligured In a glory from above! The Virgin mother kn^lt and kissed her boy. —George Parsons Lathrop in the Century. . “ SCRAPS. »•

that we mean nothing personal In remarks on this subject. Nor have we any i personal ends in view in urging that the j legislature abolish the commission and * put in charge of the State officers the cre- ! atlon of authority to finish the work. We

assume that the State officers would take ■ j g we D understood, assured the Council

give any right not now possessed to the Citizens’ Street Railway Company. That i street-car companies should pave their j tracks is a question that has been decided | by the opinion of the whole country, and It has been decided In the affirmative. As for Indianapolis, the Citizens* company, it

advice and canvass the situation, and that i with the consensus of the best opinion o? i the time would so act as to place the conclusion of this work within the control of taste add Judgment fitted for such things. Our m6nument Is In danger. The Legislature can not act too quickly. It should abolish the Monument Commission. Pertinently to this it may be added that the continued talk of the powers that be about appointing a successor to General Manson Is In bad taste, to say the least. When our law-making body shall decide that the monument is to be left controlled as it Is, It will be time enough to fill vacancies. Meanwhile we earnestly urge the Legislature to abolish the com-

mission.

that it would pave between its tracks. But It refused to carry out this promise. We urge that this street-paving bill should be brought forward and pushed forward, care being taken that in nothing shall it change the present status of the Citizens’ Street Railway Company. This apart, it is a bill that the cities and towns of Indiana need for their protection.

Collectors of the income tax, it is reported from Washington, are receiving taxes from many sources before it Is due. Men, it seems. Just cry for It.

Congressmen are receiving comfortable sums in cold cash from their stationery allowance. They are all thorough believers in this kind of paper money.

THE SEX A TB AXD THE PASS QUESTIOX. We call the attention of the tax payers of Indiana to tho contemptuous treatment which the anti-pass bill received yesterday •t the bands of their Senate. There were two reports from the committee on railroads, one recommending the indefinite postponement of the bill and the other recommending its passage. The first, which it is needless to say was the majority report, was adopted by the Senate. The vote was viva voce, as It is said that! Benator Wray, the author of the bill, had agreed not to ask for & roll-call. This Is very unfortunate, for It would have l>een interesting' to know just how the Senate stands on this important question. But the case is bud enough us It Is.and in view of all the fact* we have a right to assume the worst. The men who were elected by the people of Indiana to make laws for them have decided that it Is proper for than: to ask and accept favors from the railroad corporations of the State, although It is a well-known fact that the Interests of the people and the railroads are frequently antagonistic. Plainly stated that Is the case against the Senate, and, so far as the record shows, the whole body must bear the odium of yesterday's act. It has not been long since the lower bouse of the Indiana Legislature Invited The News to prove before one of It: committees Its charge that the Legislature was subsidised. Shortly after taking this action, by a vote of forty-nine to twenty-eight, the House decided to recommit the anti-pass bill pending before U to the railroad committee. And now the Senate has Indefinitely postponed a almllar measure. Is or Is not the legislature subsidised? It Is true that the Jiouse has in a measure reversed its action, but on the basis of the two votes above referred to, what are we to think of the Legislature of this great State? Is it necessary for The News to prove the assertion to which exception was taken? in It not true, as this paper said, that when the people attempt to stop the pass evil they have to use an agency which is ttself subsidised? Can yesterday's vote be explained on any other theory? We are aorry that Lieutenant-Governor Nye did not tee fit to pay any attention to' the demands for a yea and nay vote. He turned a deaf ear to those who called for auch a vote. Nor would he allow a division. This la to be regretted both because It saved many gentlemen from the painful necessity of making a record and also because It tndlcittes a lack of sympathy on th, part of the Lieutenant-Governor vi:h this movement for the purification of th* 1 Legislature. But the case is not < :<» . t. The fight will go op, and the very a t ; .•-» of the Senate demonstrates conclusively th* neoesalty for an anti-pass law. The corpora ion Influence In our Legi.iiattm s. State and national, is altogether too potent. Any influence whatever from this source would be too potent. With the trust dictating to the Senate of the t nitni States. R is time that the people tv .'re roused to an appreciation of the danger which threatens them and their in►Ut.ri'.on*. That danger Increased many : when our lawmaker* put themselves vn Nr Obligation:: to thalf influence which y. Is the duty of every patriotic citizen to do hta utmost to curtail. And yet the Indiana Senate **«s nothing wrong In this pasn business We think tho rite of yesterday will hasten the coming of the very reform which it wa* Intended to kill. The people will ask why It is that the statesmen are «o relentlessly opposed to any legislation

REFORM OF GOVERNMENT ARC HR

TECTURE.

It Is high time that this Government should begin to give a little more serious attention to The artistic construction of public buildings. Immense sums have been expended on buildings In the different cities of the country, but the* results from an artistic point of view have not been creditable. The Government ought to set uoble examples for the emulation of private builders, and not encourage the construction of ugly buildings, which often fall even on the utilitarian side. The family resemblance between public buildings in many parts of the country is strong, and yet there is ro good reason why there should be any aim at uniformity, even If the standard, and the individual performances, were altogether praiseworthy. Many of the comparatively new postolllces are simply hideous. One is now building at Omaha, which is merely larger, and in no wise more pleasing to the eye, than the old

Things have got turned around. There is snow all over the South extending even into Florida,

We print elsewhere a letter from the Order of the Loyal Legion noting the transmission of $50 for the battleship fund. The fund comes on apace; a very slow pace we must admit. It must come faster 1 if Indiana is not to prove a painful exception to the cities and States of the Union in noting by a suitable token the honor conferred by having a great ship bear its name.

Messrs. Lilly and Fortune retire because of circumstances over which they had oomplete control.

But Fortune still has the swag; still has the "etc.” handed over to him secretly on a “broad-gauge” policy, as a slight token of the regard of his superior for his "disinterested services.”

Colonel Lilly remained so long president of the club, lie says, "because the club required strengthening financially." It has been “strengthened” by seizing $12,000 of the Grand Army of the Republic popular

' ... subscriptions. This “unearned increment” Certainly In the comparatively „e» ,, uu , „ y , nK , nl o u e tesal

cities of the West the erection of handsome public buildings, which sliall be an Inspiration to privatfe builders, Is of great

1 importance.

| Efforts have been making to reform i Government architecture by changing : the system which has resulted in so many ' fearful and wonderful designs, mid often ■ in wasteful execution. Recently John M. ' Oarrere, of New York, to whom Secretary ; Carlisle offered the position of Superj vising Architect of the Treasury, declined ! to accept the appointment. He gave as | his reasons that the present condition of ! public building work is so disorganized j and in such a chaotic state that any one t accepting the office would have to re- ! organize the department, and this would i be ro great a task that there would be i little time for an architect’s real work, i Further, he says that the waste of money | passes belief; that the subordinates in the I office are Incompetent, and are protected I by civil service rules or political in- | fluences; and that the supervising archi1 teet Is merely a clerk, whose authority is dependent on the Secretary o< the Treasj ury, and much of It Is divided with heads

of departments.

A bill now. before the Congress seeks to correct these evils. It provides for a com*, j mission on public architecture "consisting . of three architects of high scientific and t artistic attainment and large practical experience, and two officers of the engineer's corps of the United States Army.” All administrative duties relating to the procuring of designs and the appointing of I architects for all public buildings to be ; hereafter erected, are to be performed by this commission. Designs are to be selected by competition between five architects chosen by the commission by ballot Remuneration for a certain number of unsuccessful competitors is provided. By

quibbling. After this sort of "strengthening'' the good Colonel feels that he has earned a right to rest. As he has — as he has!

The Commercial Club has good fortune at last.

We do not believe the Commercial Club 'will ever have another president who will ueek to give it and its secretary financial strength — in Just the same way.

Let it not be forgotten that under the Lilly-Fortune regime the Commercial Club achieved the absolutely unique distinction of being the only organization which either for Itself or for one of its officers was ever willing to ‘make money” out of a Grand Army Encampment. I need rest. Therefore, I step down and out.—E-l L-ll—. Me, too.—W-ll-m F-rt-n.

William Fortune, the thrifty, leaves the Commercial Club with the serene consciousness that he has still got that $5,000—thanks to the lassitude and complacent Inertness of the city attorney. Mr. Bynum, being out of office, is out for office.

John McBride, president of the American Federation, does not propose to be daubed with mud and then whitewashed. He wants the mud removed.

The monster petition of the world's W. C. T. U., addressed to the governments of the world, is a further evidence of the great persistence with which this organization is carrying on its temperance propaganda. This petition has traveled around the world, and returns to Washington bearing 3,000,000 signatures. Of course the only effect that can be expected of such a petition is a moral one. As the representation of a deep sentiment It Is Impressive.

The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette edi-

torially indorses McKinley, or at least says

this bill the supervising architect becomes ! he ls a favorite son of Ohio, and a fit man

for the presidency. The CommercialGazette from time to time has been giving all .he Republican candidates a "jolly.” '

Queen Liliuokalani must realize by this

time that it is rather indiscreet to keep a diary of conspiracies and state secrets. And the remarkable part of It Is that

she wrote in her diary every day. The executive board of the Knights of

Labor will fight "the Government's gold policy.” Now. if Sovereign and his friends tackle finance, the problem will

be figured to a Q. E. D. at once.

merely the secretary and administrative

officer of the commission.

The measure has been approved by leading architects, and the Secretary of the Treasury has favored Its passage. It appears, however, that the bill has lodged with the House committee on public buildings and grounds. The chairman of that committee opposes the bill, and will not permit it to be reported. This gentleman Ls Bankhead, of Alabama. It is Interesting to note that his post office address Is Fayette Court-House, a point which does not instantly suggest a center of high aspiration or achievement In architecture. It is certainly deplorable that a measure so worthy of adoption should be thus smothered nt the whim of a Congressman whose opposition seeing to be utterly unjustified.

. M*.

Gorma/». of course, has a compromise

ready.

The retirement for “rest'* of Messrs. Lilly and Fortune will no doubt result In •'Hubscrvance’t of the club's Interests — to

Things continue to look squally for Ix>rd Rosebery and his government. Mr. Labouchere gave the Liberal Leader a scolding yesterday, and Mr. Chamberlain, who is In the habit of saying pertinent things, also took a stick to the Government.

Brazil’s railroads stretch 5,586 miles. Thibet is still governed exclusively by Its priesthood. Most men who are kind to a fault are kinder to their own faults than to those of any one else.—Household Words. One of the principal industries of Damascus is preserving apricots and manufacturing paste from this delicious fruit. No tree has been cut by permission on New York State lands since the organization of the Forestry Commission, ten years ago. Robbing graves Is the only crime under Chinese law for which the thief may be Justly killed on the spot by any one finding him out. A new brand of cigars has been named “The Trilby.” If It Is worthy of its name it will be a good deal puffed.—New York World. When watercress was first Introduced into New Zealand It developed Into a shrub, blocking streams and causing disastrous floods. Mme. Hissa Ohyama, wife of the Japanese minister at Vienna, has joined die Roman Catholic church, with her husband's consent. Senator Brice, whose income is something like $800,000, is said to be the most lavish entertainer in Washington since the time of Secretary Whitney. The emblems of royalty of tlje Queen of Madagascar consist of four scarlet umbrellas, which are held over Her Majesty when she sits in her palanquin of state. Richard Rockwoode, a phenomenal | chess player, could play twelve games of i chess simultaneously, but, try as he j might, he could not even begin a thlr- t

teenth.

Fayette county, Kentucky, has im- | proved roads, and these draw so much custom to its towns that adjoining counties will be compelled to improve their roads to save their trade. She—You say the chicken soup isn’t good ? Why. 1 told the cook how to make it. Perhaps she didn’t catch the idea. He—No; I think it was the chicken she didn't catch.”—London Tit Bits. The National Druggist says that the teeth of negroes are no longer as white and sound as they were half a century ago—that the teeth of the negroes of this generation are more defective than those of white people. Human sacrifices still continue on the west coast of Africa, an English expedition from Old Calabar to Ohumbla having lately reached Its destination just as the sacrifices were taking jnace and after three victims had already been

killed.

"You must be very careful to have nothing to do with those bacilli,’’ said a germ mamma to her small daughter. “Why, mamma?” “Because we belong to the very exclusive artificlallj- propagated bacilli, while they can laj- no claim what-

ever to culture.”—New York Sun.

It appears to be becoming the fashion among the young men of high degree in the Russian capital to out their beards— such as enjoy them—into various shapes, according to their owners’ ideas of beauty. Heart-shaped, scallop-edged and

saw-edged are having a good run.

Last jear the Prince of Wales received $310,000 from the Duchy of Cornwall es-

The property has been well manPi ‘

Will “Gil” Shanklin get the place? Here Is a chance for the President to apply a healing plaster to a sore spot.

A Monster.

Philadelphia Ledger.

Probably the largest snake that

use the thrifty secretary’s bright, new ever killed on the American continent was (ana impossible) word coinage. : Gardner in his

• WAtt

, The snake There are no new fin'incla! nlon: Hi* waa When Dr. Gardner found It, I nere are no new financial plans this j . in() W;IS lying in the fo! . ks of a tr ^ morning, nor U there any prospect of tne with Its body full of arrows. Just as it adoption of any of the old ones. Cor- l«»d been left by the Indians who had lumly nothing can be done by Monday, at j ‘ aid*'o'f lou^horses ° and which time the option of the Government was found Ho measure thirty-seven feet

for the substitution of S for « psr cant. [ la isngth.

tales.

aged since Prince Albert took it in hand fifty years ago, and the income from rents and from royalties from mines has greatly increased. Over a million dollars

has been put by and invested.

In the histories and memoirs written by the early Spanish adventurers in. Peru it is said that the natives worshiped as a goddess the coca plant from which cocaine is now made. By chewing its leaves mixed with lime they were enabled to go for days without food or drink, carrying heavy burdens over the steppes of the

A ndes.

At Dover, Ky.. John Best was repairing the paddle wheel of a ferry boat when the engineer unthoughtfully turned on the steam and started the machinery. Best held on to the wheel and made four revolutions with it befpre the machinery was stopped. He was none the worse for his experience except the effect of a succession of cold boths. A capital instance of a child’s logic is sent us by a correspondent: “In a letter just received from my son In New South Wales,” she writes, “he mentions overhearing the following on board a steamer from Sydney to Melbourne: A very seasick little four-year-old girl said to her mother: ‘Oh, mamma, please do let the ship walk.’ London Globe. ”1 know my age,” said a man, “but it is, to me at least, a curious fact that I can not remember what year 1 was born in. I have to figure back from my age to find out. I know a man that is Just the other way. He knows the year he was born in. but doesn’t remember his age. He find* his age by subtracting his birth year from the present year.”— New York Sun. There is probably no rural community in the country that is more prostrated by the interruption of a single industry than is the Chesapeake region by the freezing up of the ovster beds. The whole community is occupied in the winter time in handling oysters, or in ministering to those that handle oysters. When the beds are frozen and Incidentally navigation ceases all trade is paralyzed. Divorce has been legal in France now for eight years. The first year the number granted was 1,700, the second 4,000: in 1894 *t was 8,000; the total for eight years Is 40,000. The working classes supply the largest proportion, 47 per cent.; the peasants the smallest, 7 per cent. Incompatibility of temper was the cause in 3o,000 cases. The most common time for bringing suits is the fifth year after marriage. A militia regiment in the north of Ireland usually drilled In a level field, close to the side of a river.. One day the drill sergeant, who was given to blustering, and was bv no means choice in his remarks to the men, met a young recruit coming late to drill. "You’re late again!” roared the sergeant; "go down to the river anti tali in!” "Oh. no." said the recruit; "l wish you to understand that 1 did not enlist in the Coldstream Guards." Sir John Lubbock believes from his studv of ants that they can not hear rnauV of the noises which are audible to men, and It Is inferentlally believed that there are some sounds too fine and others too loud for the ears of men. The London Spectator thinks that if light Is a vibration there is no reason it should not be autlible to finer ears than ours. By the same rule music ought to shine to eyes which are capable of appreciating the same vibration which Impress themselves on the drum of the ear. The telautograph does not reproduce the shading which is characteristic of different handwritings, and when a man j uses the instrument to sign his name a thousand miles front where he Is standing ! at Is denied by some that the result Is le- ; gaily his autographic signature. The point is probably not well taken. At any rate, I It would not militate against the general introduction of the telautograph, if un- I fortunately the instrument did not require four wires for its proper operation, j Until it Is improved In this respect it will be too costly for general use.—New York

World.

Denver Republican. The Rev. Myron Reed was greeted by even a larger audience last Sunday morning than assembled to hear him the preceding Sunday on the opening of services under the Temple management. The Broadway Theater was packed as closely as Its capacity permits. His subject was “The Old and the New.” the text being taken from the fifth verse of the first chapter of John: "And the light shineth in darkness." Mr. Reed spoke as follows: "There Is no head and fast line of division between pitch darkness and broad daylight. There Is a slow transformation. The light of early morning Is In the darkness. There Is no head and fast line between the old and the new. They shade into one another. 1 saw in old England weeds I had been familiar with In Vermont. Old-fashioned weeds march West, and in their course keep up with the star of empire. The Canada thistle crosses the border and invades the States to the South, and soon, crossing the Mississippi, where the emigrant feeds his horses, the brave little weed plants itself. All of the powers of the east wind help on this pilgrimage. I believe we are indebted to Russia for la grippe and a

thistle,

"There is much of the Old World in the new. A Scandinavian finds himself very much at home in Minneapolis. The ex-Governor and Senator-elect of Minnesota is known at home as ‘The little Norwegian.’ He is little in stature, but otherwise not little. "One discovers by search that much of the dialect of these States supposed to be local-provincial Is good old English. I had thought that the phrase or exclamation, ‘Dog-on-lt!’ was peculiar to Indiana and the neighborhood, but tn reading the wortes of Professor Wilson (Christopher North) I came across my Hoosler acquaintance. "Some Americanisms are in Shakespeare. He used our common slang verb •fire.’ In one of the historical plays, I forget what one, somebody is ’fired.’ "In his famous lecture. ‘Lost Arts,’ Wendell Phillips remarks that modern Irish jokes were familiar to the Greeks. ‘‘The supposed new is the old. There are many Americans in sentiment on the other side of the ocean. Garibaldi was a good enough American. Robert Burns, dead a hundred years, would, in his Thoughts of God and men, be able to keep step with any American dead or living. In faith and hope and sympathy he is good company for Abraham Lincoln. It is wonderful to find such a man at such a time in such ta place. Burns is as a day of June in midwinter. He was placed where he was and when he was that men who loved light and life should not be utterly discouraged. Men read his works and began to have doubts as to the pictures of God on exhibition at that time. "The lover of liberty need not wait for new books. Most of the doctrines which will obtain In the future are either plainly set down or suggested in books already made and on sale. John Ruskin, John Milton's prose and John the Evangelist will be good reading even to the children of the twentieth century. I do not expect anything in the future that will make the Bible a back number. "The nations of the earth are roughly divided Into sa%'age, barbarian, civilized and enlightened. Such a division is Justified. I think, but these divisions run into one another. The most enlightened city i in Christendom has some Inhabitants who are savage. I do not discover in reading New England’s history that Miles Stundish was more of a gentleman than King Phillip, Red Jacket, Teoumseh, Osceola and Red Cloud, and they need not apologize to any white men of their time. The best speech ever made in Vincennes, ind., was made by Tecumseh. It was at a council in the open air. The enlightened officers brought a chair, and with some polite remark about 'The great father at Washington,’ begged the savage to be seated. But he declined the great father at Washington, and the chair, both. " 'The sun Is my father and the earth Is my mother. 1 will rest on her bosom.’ “St. Paul found succor on an island inhabited by heathen. They gave the shipwrecked stranger food and fire and restall he needed. Mingo Park, tired and starved and sick, found in an African village a tine hospitality. The black, ignorant savage women broujmt him food. Tiie gift was good, the marmlr was graceful. They did not sling the food to h'.rn out of the back door of a kitchen, they j brought it to him. Their song was sym- 1 pathetic—’He has no wife to grind him |

corn.’

"David Livingstone found a loyalty among savages that is hard to match, j Seven pagan negroes have followed him j when he was well, cared for him when he } was sick, and carried his dead body 700 ! mites to Zanzibar on the coast. They J never laid the body down finally until I they laid it down on the deck of an English ship. I think perhaps the most unmitigated savage may be round to-day in the great centers of the most enlight-

ened civilization.

‘Mr. Huxley remarks In effect that the savage in the center of Africa has a better and broader life than some people possess who live within the sound of the church bells of London. There* are some acres of any big city that would make any savage from anywhere homesick. "But 1 am not about to say that a savage people are, on the whole, to be preferred to a people set down on the map as enlightened. The nineteenth is the best century we have had. If we think it a bad century, it is because we hear of its badness; wa are informed of its evil. People a couple of hun Ired years ago did not know what was going * "In a big, roomy, thinly inhabited

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quickener and even a wolf in a winter | like this, will develop unusual skill and : take unusual risks. A prophet will assert > what hard times will provoke people to plan and to do. The dally pai>er tell* us j what people have planned and are doing. Almost daily i read that a train has tx-oiv held up, men are robbed, houses are entered. A citizen going home at midnight takes the middle of the road. Men are not any more wicked than they were In the ‘good old times’; they are unusually hungry, and, on the whole, know more than men knew In the day* when a man was hung for snaring a rabbit. The old doctrine that It I* God's will that men should starve in the midst of plenty, anA freeze In a coal yard, are exploded. J do not believe there Is a remnant of that old He left. This is not an exhortation Id robbery, or theft, or misdemeanor. It is a simple assertion that we have found out that It is not God’s will that people suffer as they are suffering at this present time. Wnat can you expect of intelligent people who are willing to work and for whom there is no work? "A prophet Is not a new thing. He has appeared from time to time. But there are more prophets now than ever, and they have more of a following. Once the‘prophet was a lonely man, and could only assert that such and such a cause would infallibly produce such and such an effect. He could assert that ’the love of money Is the root of all evil,’ but he spoke to the people who had not read history: there was no history accessible. If there had been, they could not read. We have history, and we can read, and, besides, we can observe, and we know now that the prophet was right. "Much of our rage and cruelty is possible, but in order for much of these to be possible there must be Ignorance. It was a very serious thing we did when we Invented the common school. It is a serious thing to teach people to read, and at the same time publish powerful books and make them cheap. With $3 a man can buy the best books that have been written. He can fully inform himself as to his rights ana obligations. Darkness is necessary to all oppression. Jesus Christ is betrayed and tried in the night. In the night the British land and begin their march on Lexington and Concord. The more darkness and the less noise the better for them. Not by them is the signal light kindled; hot for them does the light blaze and Paul Revere I ride. The men In homespun down the . road are different. All they need is day- I light, broad daylight—the more light the better for them. Let the sun rise and j they will do the rest. "'The power* that Intend to crowd men { and walk over them are very shrewd j and very cunning, but they made one ; fatal mistake—they ought not to have I permitted the common school. The slave- { holder was logical. The laws forbidding j teaching slaves to read were necessary to the system. Light will dissolve all fet-

ters.

"It does not to-day look much like spring. 1 hear that Lake Michigan is frozen as far as one can see. Lake Champlain Is frozen over. The Thames river is frozen over at Gravesend, the port of London. The water is salt and the tide runs, but winter has bound it fast and made It still. It is a cold world. But the fact is that the earth, since Christmas, has been wheeling toward summer. The days lengthen and the nights shorten. There is more and more of light. Perhaps there will be snow In May and .a hall storm in June, but summer Is here.” A WARNING TO HANK DIRECTORS.

Chicago Tribune.

Two years ago the Indianapolis National

Rank was discovered to have been Butted by some of its officers. The president Is serving a term now in State’s prison for his part in the wrecking of the concern. Among the depositors was the International Typographical Union. As the assets of the bank were not sufficient to paj' a tithe of its debts, the union began suit against some of the directors who had signed reports about the condition of the bank which were untrue. It is alleged on bcliuif of the creditor that it was induced to deposit with the bank by reason of these untruthful representations, which had attached

llu-m tile names of men of standing, udge Maker, of the United States Court,

j given a decision sustaining the suit and holding that the directors in question are

liable.

The Judge says this is a new case in a I-Vileral Court, but that tie is sure the rule he has laid down upholds honesty. It does, and his decision. If sustained by the higher courts, as it should be, will tend to make bank directors more careful. In this Instance, as in many others, directors put their names to published statements on tin* condition of the bank which were untrue. Whether they did

• AJBABY CONTRADICTS TEE DOCTORS. AH Are HappyToiml, and Well. fsrwiAL ro ocx lap* xtAprxa) Tlw: theories of physician* in regard to female complaints suffer s “Waterloo ” very frequently, when sensible and thinking women take matters into their own hands.

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. did not know that those statements were untrue, makes no difference ho far as their responsibility Is concerned. They voluntarily came forward as guarantors and indorsers of those statements. They lent the credit of their names. They gave people to undei

istltutlons were solvent, whf case. When the assets _ fficient, their estates should |

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npel act for themselves, because of the suffering forced upon them by incompetent doctors, who are baffled by very simple complaints, because they are not the right sex to comprehend them. * Lydia E. Pinkham, when she gave to the world her Vegetable Compound, lifted women from the darkness into light. She placed within their reach a guaranty, not only of health, but of delicacy and self-respect. * The following letter is a little story where a “ dear little boy ” was the “Waterloo.” “ I have taken three bottles of your Vegetable Compound, one package of Sanative Wash, one box of Liver Pills; and now I have a dear little babe four weeks old, and I am well, i have to thank you for this. “ I have spent $200.00 for doctors’ bills without a cure. For my cure 1 only spent $5.00. “ I was once a victim of female troubles in their worst form. 1 have suffered untold agonies every month; had to stay in bed, and have poultices applied, and then could not stand the pain. “My physician tpld me if I became pregnant 1 would die. I had bladder trouble, itching, backache, catarrh of the stomach, hysteria, and h^art trouble, fainting spells and leucorrhoea. Can you wonder that I sing the praises of a medicine that has cured me of all these ills?” Mrs. Geo. C. Kirciineb, 351 Snediker Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.

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To-morrow (Sunday) Malit at « o’clock, Veno Will Deliver III* Third Foiiuliu* Leeture for U»e lieurtit of the Poor of lndlni>M|»ollN. Atfuin He Will Dlatrihute Grocerlen and ProvlMton* to the Needy Who Brlngr Letter* from Clergymen Statius That They Are DearrvLa*. Lecture at W p. m. Afimission Free.

<1 tv bled among the depositor*

misled by them.

Judge Baker says: "1 do not believe that hank officer* may make lying statement* ami esvape unscathed. It is not the bank -as contemplated under the law that ia to be blamed: it is the officials who make the false representations.” This is sound doctrine. If a director chaoses to affix his name to a statement without verifying its accuracy, and people trust him and are deceived, he ought to pay for his act. Judge Baker’s law is ex-

cellent and should be upheld.

A Just Decision Hy JiiiIkc linker.

Lafayette Courier.

Judge Baker, of the United States District Court at Indianapolis, ha* Just rendered a decision in one of the cases growing out of the collapse of the Hauirhey bunk in that city that will attract widespread Interest and dis-

cussion. The gist of It is

l >st money by the failure have a ground of

against the directors individually this opinion Is sustained. It will result

REP. CURES ALL SKIN AND BLDOD DISEASES

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action against the directors individually.

in no

end of litigation and complications, but it will have the good effect of awakening all bank director* to a keener appreciation of the fact

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PISEA3CS. Kk.no.Uirr.. S.r.>ftUoo* l lean uid Son^ GUudol.r Sw.ll.iijt, Rb.uui.tiUB, Malftri., .14 Chroai. b’lowj that a... miitad all i.-«auacat, Catarrh,

director* to a keener nppi that their duties are so nominal. It has been th

mme thing more than

nominal, it has been the custom to regard the position of bank director as ornamental rather than useful, and the consequence has been the frequent recurrence of failures brought about by the bad management and rascality of the chief officials Intrusted with

sole supervision of the business. Down To tlie Cotton Hants.

Philadelphia Ledger.

Three or four Southern Legislatures have set out to cut down the salaries of State officials this winter, as a South Carolinian said, “to bring them down to a 5-cent cotton basis." South Carolina ■has paid poor enough salaries at best, but the legislature has taken a considerable slice off, and now the Alabama Senate has passed a bill to limit ail official salaries

<o $2,000 a year.

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Bktc Dlmwi, Kanoa, Clwtl* fhaal cnrlal Polton, Tattn, Scald Haad, ale., ai P. P. T. U a khwM toiitc, and aa

Compaicu, M»t-•-r.l.tnt app»it«.r,

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inhabited earth

a cyclone could move alone and hit no-

Chairs and stand* at Wm. L. Eider's.

body. It whirled unreported. Now itcani not go far without hitting a village; i there is a survivor who immediately hunts a telegraph office. The information Is In all the daily papers of the earth. We are liable to get the impression that cyclones are multiplying. So with all the statistics of misfortune and crlme-we alone hear what is going on. It Is probable that things similar and perhaps worse have always been going on. "People two hundred years ago did not make any fuss about the cruel management of prisons. They did not rush into the newspapers with demands for Investigation—there were few newspapers to rush into. The people did not know what was going on, and so they did not care

and they did not speak.

“At night and in bed one has a dim, dull sense that he is cold. There is cover enough within reach of his hand. But being half asleep and half frozen he has r.ot sense enough to wake up and reach out and make himself comfortable. That has been the condition of tne world. “It Is now waking up to a lively sense of what has always hurt. The time for dull endurance is past. There are people who are always talking about the beauty of peace and order. There is nothing more peaceful than a well-ordered graveyard. After a pirate has run down a merchantman and butchered the crew ami transferred the cargo, all he desires Is peace. He wants to be left alone. There Is nothing more orderly than an oldfashioned country funeral. The parlor was usually reserved for that use. I can see the rows of chairs upholstered with black haircloth, slippery as glass. A friend loaned me a book entitled •Power of Repose.' The author says when vou sit down, sit down. Relax all the muscles and rest. That depends upon the kind of chair. In the kind I am talking

about repose was fata).

"There is a kind of order akin to death. Mv friend told me days after the death and burial of his two little children, that h-. hated to go into his house ’because everything was in Us proper place.’ No playthings scattered about on the floor to step on and stumble over; no confusion;

no noise.

“Life means noise — disorder if you please. The noise of making new things and mending old things. People used to sit down, fold their hands and siljpntiy ; submit to the supposed will of God that ■ In the midst of plenty they should silently starve and freeze. They are not so si- j lent now. Even little children in facto- 1 ries make their voices heard. You have heard Mrs. Browning's lines. ’The Cry ; of the Children.’ She made that cry j

heard in Parliament.

• I read in yesterday’s paper that in i this cold weather wolves and bears were i becoming bold. In the Arkansas bottoms l they come out into the clearings and kill j the sheep and cattle. They even venture j to attack children. They are looking for , food In dooryards. Hunger i* a greater j

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To-morrow (Sunday) night Veno will deliver his third lecture for the benefit of the poor and needy of this city. As on the two preceding evenings, he will distribute groceries and provisions to all who present letters from clergymen testifying to their worthiness and that they are In need. Veno will address his audience on the all-importunt subjects, health, hygiene and physical development. The discourse will be a continuance of Ms former talks, and highly Interesting and Instructive to both old and young. The remarkable cures effftf-ted by Veno in this city have given him fame In a Single week. ■* Mrs. Laura Bryant, Henry Rolfs and Patrick Harringtoif were all sent to Vend's j office with letters from- such prominent ; men aa Postmaster Hahm, Father BesI ronles. ex-Sherlff Emmett, Mr. Knox. These patients had been suffering for i years, and had tried many doctors wlth“iit relief. The astonishing effects of the Veno remedu 9 way witnessed by hundreds Taken on the stage, crippled and Item double, unable to get around wlth- . out assistance, they were treated from thirty to forty minutes by the Veno remedies and came upon the stage unaided; ; ran and jumped about to show their en- ! tire cure from pain and stiffness. Mrs. Foresinger, a well-known lady of this city, had been a sufferer from rheu- ! matism for twenty years, and had spent i i hundreds of dollars with doctors and . medicines in useless endeavors to bi ! cured. Her crutches were taken away from her In forty minutes In the presence of six hundred ladies, and she Is now on ■ the road to entire recovery These are but a few of the many cases ! that have been cured by the Veno remedies. We could cite many more, but these cases were treated in the presence of hundreds of Indianapolis people and can be vouched for. v S In order that all may have an opportunity to receive the benefit of the \ eno i remedies, an offer was made of free consultation and advice for a period of seven days—only the actual cost of the medi•j dries necessary to effect a cure to be made. This offer expires on Tuesday, February 19, and no one should fail to takq advantage of this unparalleled offer. Veno and staff of physicians can b« consulted free at his office, 31 "West Market st. Hours, 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Sunday,

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