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The Sunday Journal has doable the circu
lation of any Sunday paper In Indiana.
Price five cents.
That was a great demonstration by tie
railroad men last night.
THE railroad men of Terre Haute and Indi
anapolis shook hands last nightand it seemed
to bo a right fraternal greeting.
-"'Ihf: railroad men took the town last night
They came in such force that resistance was
teen to be useless, so none was made. The
attacking column from Terre Hauto, rein-
forced by the Indianapolis reserves, made an
irresistible army, and there was nothing left
but unconditional surrender. Of course, it
- is but fair to say that the victors conducted
themselves with great moderation, and made
such & favorable impression that i3 hoped
they will come again.
i
There is ro more intelligent class of
(killed workmen in this country than the
railroad men. They do not take) their
pinions ready-made from anybody. Read
. ing, thinking and deciding for themselves, &
- large majority of them have evidently reached
the conclusion that the railroad interest, and
consequently their interest, lies in the protec
tion of American industry, and they are there
fore for Harrison and Morton. A political
jarty that receives and deserves the support
tf such a class cf citizens is to be congratu
ated. TOMEIF POLITICS-
.ueadersln the equal suilrage movement are
,n record as saying that because of the failure
to incorporate a "woman's rights" resolution
In the national platforms neither of the two
great parties has any claims upon wemen for
their support. Because the resolutions in re
gard to the regulation of the liquor traffic
were net to their liking, certain female
temperace advocates make a similar assertion,
and declare that it is immaterial to them
which party wins. This attitude not only
. be trajs selfishness, but. a' selfishness so narrow
and shortsighted is to overreach, 'itself, and
that speaks ill for the intelligence 'on which
thay base claims for the privileges of the bal
let. As a simple matter of fact, women are.
'always concerned actually, if not con
sciously, in the result of every election, since
whatever aflecU the general welfare affects
them; but if there was ever a time when the
issues involved touch them closely t is thU
jrear. Not even in 1SC0 did they come
nearer to the people, men, women and chil
dren, in their homes. The question of
woman suffrage may be a great and burning
cae, but is hardly equal in immediate impor
tance to the necessity for preserving the in--das
tries of the country from destruction.
Prohibitory liquor laws may be desirable, but
with national and individual prosperity in
danger of overthrow from other causes than
whisky-drinking, such laws are not the only
natters for general consideration. "What
jaia would the ballot confer upon women
with the business of the community on a down
rxade and the working classes sinking to a
level with the paupers of Europe? Commerce
tannoi always be voted into activity nor wages
gegulated by legislation. What would it profit
ihe temperance people if they had prohibitory
laws, with closed factories and idle laborers!
It is the .history of intemperance that it in
creases in almost exact ratio with
gree of financial depression. The
man who, with good income and
money to spare in his 'pocket, takes an occa
sional drink, looks for comfort in more frequent
potations as his purse grows empty without
hope of replenishing; and no laws will prevent
his indulgence. The Republican party is
fighting for the preservation of a principle,
the enforcement of which has brought a pros
perity no other country has ever known, and
one which affects suffragists, temperance
workers and all others alike; yet some of these
good people do not see their way clear to as
sist in the work. This, too, in face of the
facts that in Congress and State Legislatures"
txune-tenths of all the votes given for woman
suffrage in the pa3t twenty years have been
cast by Republicans, and that all prohibitory
and restrictive liquor legislation in tho North
ern States is the work of Republicans.
Fortunately, however, all women are not
animated by this narrow spirit Women's
protective tariff clubs are being formed here
and there, all over the country, and women
everywhere are discussing the question of the
day with1 interest and intelligence. The
time has long gone by, if it ever existed in
the United States, when women were not
.Informed upon current political issues,
and few persons now show disposition to de
cry their influence in politics, When they
choose' exercise it they have influence in
thi.f.1 Yczii ctherslnd, like that of men,
its extent bears little or no relation to their
right to or deprivation of the ballot. The
man who had great political power does not
possess it merely because he can vote. Wher
ever there is rctive interest in political issues
among women, wherever they read tarift liter
ature and discuss the subject, there is sure to
be found the greatest enthusiasm among
voters, and then, too, the votes are likely to
be on the right side. For, dissatisfied though
unreasonable suffragists and third-partyites
may be, the sympathy of most earnest and
intelligent women is with Republicans this
year, and for protection of tome industries
and the home.
SLANDER BY WHOLESALE
A female temperance orator in Washington
charges that the failure of Congress to re
gard a popular petition for an investigation
cf the liquor traffic is owing to the fact that
Congress can be bought She also condemns
the Protestant church for its attitude towards
liquor, and declares that the courts are venal.
A writer in a current magazine, who con
fesses that he is a newspaper man, asserts
that, as a rule, every newspaper has its price,
and for a certain number of dollars will advo
cate anything without regard to its merits.
An esteemed contemporary has no hesi
tation in charging the City Council with
being corrupt whenever it chances to disap
prove of any act of that body. These instances
are mentioned only because they chance to
come to mind. Others .of the same sort
might easily be found, and the number of pri
vate individuals who are constantly ascribing
improper motives to others would make the
list a long one. This censorious habit tends
to create a belief in the minds of impressible
and thoughtless people that all men are dis
honest, saving and excepting, of course, the
righteous accusers themselves. Upon others
the impression is equally disagreeable, but
relates only to the slanderers. To most peo
ple the individual who shows a readiness to
cast discredit upon others does not commend
himself as one to be trusted. Instead of the
unimpeachably virtuous person which he as
sumes to be, he succeeds in creating unpleas
ant doubt of his own integrity.
The temperance orator who assails
the entire legislative and judiciary
departments of the government do es not un
dermine the faith of sensible persons in those
institutions, but does give rise to a suspicion
that, under certain conditions, she might her
self betray the glorious cause. The newspa
per man who says every newspaper has its
price, at once sets himself down as one who
has his price, although in the case referred to,
he writes of the beauties of an incorruptible,
but to him, yet ideal press. The newspaper
swift to accuse city officials of dishonesty
may be, like Caesar's wife, above suspicion;
but the course it now follows is likely to in
spire "fellows of the baser sort" with a desire
to test its assumed suDeriority.
Not only is this censorious course unhealth
f ul in its effect upon those who heed it, but it
creates a wonder in the straightforward mind
as to its purpose. If reformation of the
wicked world is really desired, a little wisdom
ought to teach the hopelessness of accom
plishing it by wholesale denunciation of
existing authorities and of humanity in gen
eral. If, as the Washington temperance speaker
says, Congress and courts are without princi
ple or honor, what is the use of further effort
to improve the condition of mankind, since
Congress and courts are what the people make
them? If newspapers, without exception,
have their price, why hope to better their
moral standing, with those owners and editors
already representing all classes and conditions
of men? If city fathers are open to mer
cenary considerations, why hope that
other representatives of the peo
ple would be less subject to
temptation? In short, if man is always vile
when he does not behave just to suit us, or
measure himself by our inch rule, why not
cease to kick against the pricks and leave the
world to run itself? This is the question
roused by these calumnious critics of their
fellow-men, and no better end do they accom
plish. It is one thing, and a proper and com
mendable one, to denounce evil specifically,
and when there is reasonable proof of its ex
istence; it is another and contemptible pro
ceeding to indulge in detraction and calumny
on general principles. Such a course hurts
only the critic themselves. They are far
wiser, as well as more Christianlike, who will
favor their criticisms with justice and char
ity. Their influence for reform is infinitely
greater.
IUXUU MENTION.
A normal school is badly needed in Kentucky.
At least w judge so from the answers recently
given to certain questions by applicants for teach
er certificates in Pulaski county. One of the
Questions propounded was, "Name five books
that you would recommend children under fif
teen to read." One teacher gave the Bible, law
and almanac, and two or three others recom
mended the history of the James brothers as
good reading for those under fifteen years of
aze. One teacher in describing her school-house
said that it was "stripped with plank aud sealed
underneath of upstairs." Another in de
scribing the academy where he last
taught, wrote: "As a summary of the house
I can eulogize it in the highest, but as to the
furniture I can use no magniloquence." In rej-ly
to the question in geography, "Draw an outline
of the map of North America, giving its political
divisions," one teacher answered: "Its political
divisions is Democracy an Republic" An
other teacher wrote, "A parenthesis is used to
make the word more clear, but to be spoken
silently." 'Three elements of good essay, said
one, "are simple, precise and confuse." Another
replied that "the purpose of recitation is to
heare the lesson an correct the Ears." This last
expression probably meant to "correct the
errors," though the teacher may have had an
idea that boxing the ears of dull pupils is an im
portant part of education. As all these ex
amples are furnished by the county paper
where the examination was held they are pre
sumably corroct and not overdrawn.
The peach crop this year promises to surpass
any during the last twelve or fifteen years. It
is a very cneertam crop at best, but one erop
such as that of this year compensates for sev
eral years of failure. The uncertainty of the
crop has made farmers and fruit-growers care
less about plantingnew peach orchards, or keep
ing cp old ones, and the result is the number of
peaeh trees has greatly diminished. There are,
however, some very Urge orchards in southern
Indiana, along the Ohio river, where the soil and
climate are favorable to peach culture. Probably
the largest and finest peach orchards in tho
State are those in Clark county,
owned by Mr. Angus Dean and his sons
and by Hon. John H. Stotseoburg, of
New Albany. They cover 775 acres and
contain 125,000 bearing trees. The average
life of a peach tree is about twelve years, and
when by care in selection of seed, planting and
cultivation, an orchard eontinnes to bear Its
eighteenth year, it may well be said that the
the man who has done this has added six years
to the life of his trees. Quite a large number of
Mr. Dean's trees, set oat in 1S70 and 1872, are
ttill in good condition, and loaded with fruit
this year, though younger trees are more vigor
ous. About seven thousand of his trees come
into bearing this year. Most of the trees are
four to five years old. One tract of four bun-,
dred acres, owned by Messrs. Dan and Stotaen-
burg jointly, contains twent-fonr thousand trees.
Another orchard of two hundred and fifty
acres has 12,000 tress, and so on. Some trees
bear as much as four bushels of fruit The
Deans have now a crop of peaches, by the low
est estimate, aggregating 23,000 bushels. Dar
ing successive failures, in years past they con-
tinned to cultivate and plant. In three years,
when they had no crop, they set out 80,000 new
trees. The orchards are cultivated with great
ears whether it is a good bearing year or not,
and the work of gathering, picking and market
ing the frait is thoroughly systematized.
Some time ago an Eastern medical journal
started a discussion upon the advisability of a
doctor's uniform or some distinctive mark, to
designate the profession. A physician who fa
vored the idea said that often there were acci
dents on boats and trains, and even in the street
when a few moments' time noant a great deal
to the patient. A doctor might be near and the
olive bntton or hat-b and would designate him
and he could be called to the injured man at
once. In a country town, the doctor said, a
physician twenty miles away was sent for, when
there was anothsr boarding for a part of the
summer not a quarter of a mile away, though
no one knew he was a physician. On excursion
and passenger boats the cry was often heard.
"Is there a doctor on boardP A mark of d esig-.
nation would be notice d and the physician or sur
geon found quickly. The suggestion has met with
some favor, and those doctors who have dis
cussed the matter favor olive as the color to fit
tingly represent the profession, and some have
already mounted an olive-colored button worn
on the lapel of the coat. In this little cloud, not
nearly so big as a man's hand, we fsar there are
the elements of a bitter medical war. If olive
is adopted as the distinctive color of the medical
profession, who is to decide who may wear it?
Shall we have different shades of olive to repre
sent the diffent schools, or shall one school mo
nopolize that color exclusively and compel its
rival to adopt another, blood red. for instance?
We fear there is more trouble ahead.
An incident which occured a few days ago in
a silk-mill at Wilfcesbarre, Pa., would do to go
in the medical works as an illustration of the
contagious influence of nervous excitement
Daring working hours one of the young women
employes was taken with an epileptio fit She
fell to the floor, and the other girls gathered
aronnd and became most alarmed and excited.
Suddenly one of them gave a wild shriek and
fell over in violent hysterics. The excitment in
creased, and in a minute or so another young
woman was seized with hysteria. The girls
were now almost wild with nervous excitement
and one after another were seized with hysteric
convnlsions, until in a few minutes sixteen of
them had fallen to the floor in convulsions.
Medical aid was hastily summoned and it re
quired a vigorous use of restoratives to bring
the young women to a normal condition. It was
a clear ease of contagious hysteria, and would
easily account for the nervous phenomena which
sometimes occur under great religions excito
nent The Nashville Christian Advocate says tbat it
has received several articles commenting on the
creation of "an order of nuns" in the Methodist
Ediscod&I Church, but since no such order was
created the articles will not be printed. The
comments of some papers based on the same
blunder are comical Writers have rushed into
print, bewailing the popish tendencies of Meth
odism; some wonder if nunneries are to be erect
ed for the new order; one asked if they are to
take the veil, and so on to the end of the idle,
ignorant extreme. The popish tendency in the
order of deaconesses is just about equal to the
bad trend toward popery which everybody sees
in our order of deacons. v e shall build mon
asteries for the latter at the time when we erect
nunneries for the former. Just after that we
will build a Vatican and elect a Pope. North
western Christian Advocate.
This is hardly fair. Whenever the Methodist
Church adopts regulations whereby their "dea
cons'' may or shall live in houses together, and
wear a distinctive dress, the outside world would
have color of right to say the church bad taken
a pretty long step toward "monasteries."
An Eastern paper commenced an editorial
with the statement "With the Presidents pri
vate life the public has nothing to do." A cor
respondent takes .exception to the statement
and thinks the publie ought to be deeply inter
ested in the private life and character of the
man they elect to the highest office in the land.
"Is there any better guarantee," he asks, "tbat
the public life of a man will be good than that
his private life has been port? The first and
most important question that any business man
asks about a trusted employe concerns his pri
vate character. Why, then, is it nothing to the
people, t3e private life of their President
Harrison could not cany a single State In the
Union for the Republican party if be were
.handicapped with a bad character." The corre
spondent is right. Character tells.
Speaking of canon firing, powder blazing and
noise as a means of expressing patriotic and
other publio sentiments, the New York Post
suggests that the improved civilization of the
East meaning New York, is outgrowing its
fondness for auch demonstration and is coming
to recognize it as a relio of heathendom, and as
proof remsrks that "We are even learning to
celebrate the Fourth of July quietly." If the
Post's idea of civilization, which is the English
idea, is allowed to prevail, there will presently
be no celebration of the Fourth of July in Now
York. There is little probability, however, that
its hope for a similar condition of affairs in In
diana will soon be realized.
A writer in the Meurah Monthly, a Hebrew
periodical, says:
"Lately, I found a few hours leisure tore-read
Ben-Hur. It is a nobis book, nobly conceived
and giandly executed. General Wallace ia one
of the few masters of English. His vast vocab
ulary, the happy and lucid adaptation of rarely
used terms, the wonderful musical flow of bis
speech, the fervid eloquence of characters in
every linguistic detail the work commands admi
ration, and enjoins respect ana reverence ror the
author."
A remarkable feature of this very remarkable
book is tho catholicity of spirit, which commends
it alike to Jew and gentile, to Catholic ana
Protestant It is a book for all mankind and
for all the centuries.
Senator Stockbridqe, of Michigan, re
ceived the sympathy of bis senatorial colleagues
a few days ago when he told them that he had
suffered a loss of $15,000 cash. This is a good deal
of money to lose all at once, and the Senator's
friends naturally sympathized with him. In ex
plaining how it happened, the Senator said the
famous young trotting horse. Bell Boy, which he
recently sold for $35,000, bad just been disposed
of at auction in Kentucky for $50,003. Senator
Stockbridge purchased the horse in the first in
stance from Senator Stanford for $10,000.
The eicht hour system is not likely to prove
so satisfactory to letter-carriers as they ex
pected. They will have to perform no more
than eight hours actual labor par day, but .the
eight hours will cot be consecutive, and it will
depend largely upon tho individual tempcra-
ments as to whether it is more tiresome to be
busy for ten or twelve hours, or to work only
eight and spend from two to four hours in tedi
ous waits in the interval.
Two citizens of local prominence are in jail in
Pittsburg for a term of five months, the one for
renting houses for immoral purposes, the other
for selling liquor without license. Kind friends
and their own plethoric purses surround them
with every luxury in the way of food And fur
niture; but nevertheless, they are in jail, and
when they get their precious freedom once
more will have learned a wholesome lesson.
Is these days of close competition and narrow
margins, when the success or failure of a man
ufacturing industry is assured by the selection
of a site, by a single as compared with a double
handling, by the slightest difference in freight
rates, etc, a very slight reduction in duties
will give foreign goods an advantage that will
work ruin to home manufactures. It is just
this slight advantage that protects American
industry.
The State Department at Washington is in
formed that the newly appointed minister pleni
potentiary from Persia to the United States will
arrive at New York with his suite about the
middle of August His name is Hadji Hoseeim
Konli Khan Mohamed el Vesari. His surname
will be shipped by the taext steamer.
The Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Home Jour
nal is a new paper published at Knightstown by
the officers and inmates of the Home. It is a
five column, eiht-page paper, neatly printed,
and contains information in regard to the work
of the institution, as well as much personal
matter concerning the pupils and their teachers.
It will be read with interest in the homes of all
old soldiers.
Conoressman "Sunset" Cox has received a
invitation to attend the North Carolina Demo
cratic State convention, in which he is told:
"You will receive a jofly welcome and meet
bevy after bevy of womanhood infinitely more
beautiful than the rarest dreams could suggest
when inspired by the warm whispers of Oriental
zephyrs." Now, if we could only learn to rnn a
campaign that way?
A local weather prophet at Jersey City com
mitted suicide a few days ago by jumping off the
dock. A sealed letter which he left behind con
tained the prediction that Aug. 13 would be one
of the hottest days of the season. Did his
knowledge of this weighty secret drive him
crazy, or did he strive to escape the hoat by the
water route?
Boston Democrats have not ratified yet but
for several weeks they have been getting ready
to do so and, according to the Herald, have en
gaged one speaker for the occasion. The date
of the meeting is not yet fixed, but when it oc
curs it will, of course, be a "spontaneous up
rising." m
To th TMitor of tho Indianapolis Journal:
Please stste, for the information of your read
ers, L The amount of all taxes collected in the
State of Indiana, or as nearly as may be, in
1837! 2. The amonnt Indiana would have to
pay the general government if the national
revenue was raised by a direct tax? 3. What is
the State debt of Indiana? 4. How much inter
nal revenue was collected in Indiana in 1SS7?
1. $1,955,303.14, 2. No close estimate can be
made. 2. $2,041,625.12. 4. The internal reve
nue office at this city can not furnish the total
collections of 1SS7. The State is divided into
two districts, and all collections aro reported to
the respective offices. Write to Wm. D. H.
Hunter, Lawrenceburg, and Gen. M. D. Manson,
Terre Haute, for information.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal
Was Mosby a confederate brigadier? Was he
appointed to a foreign mission during the war by
President Lincoln? CO. Robbins.
Lynx, Aug. 3, 1883. . .
Mosby was a confederate general. He was
appointed consul to China by General Grant.
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.
Baron Recter. the telegraph king of Europe,
keeps a secretary whose sole business it is to in
vestigate fend relieve cases of distress.
Sexatoa Ransom and bis son resemble each
other In appearance so closely that it is not easy
to distinguish one from the other at a distance.
"Can a young man marry comfortably on
$500 a yearr asks a correspondent Yes, he can;
but he will be deuced uncomfortable afterwards.
Burlington Free Press.
A family tricycle, carryiog a whole German
family, and in addition a large bowl of some
cold drink to a suburban picnic, meandered
leisurely through Berlin the other day.
The new woolen undergarments, extensively
advertised in English papers as curing every
thing but death, are asserted by American doe
tors to be much too irritating for the American
skin, which, if properly bathed, does not often
require strong stimulation.
Says an Englishman: "You Americans have
been trying to build up a social system without
an aristocracy; but you will never succeed as
long as there is a woman in the great republic
If there were no such thing as an aristocracy in
the world, women would invent one.
A two-year-old child died at Atlanta, Ga.,
over a year ago. A short time before its death
the child's hair was cut off and a curl placed in
a box with some of the child's playthings. The
other day, when the box was opened, the hair
was found to have grown over two feet.
If you remark that the hot weather always
makes yon transpire profusely, the chances are
that some one will take you up for an incorrect
nse of the word "transpire." Bnt as a matter
of. fact yoa will be using the word in strict ac
cord with Webster's definition of it. Men who
know this are winning wagers on their knowl
edge every day.
Says a newspaper correspondent at Saratoga
in a letter dated Tuesday: "While sitting in
the new Patterson spring pavilion this morning
I was surprised to see Jay Gould and his physi
cian. Dr. Mann, enter and take seats at one of
the little tables. They were served with water,
and I had a good look at the great millionaire.
who eoes about the world with railroads and
telegraph lines in his pocket Save a eareworn
expression. 1 could not see that he looked per
ceptibly different from what I bad seen him in
seasons past on the United States piazza. He
was very plainly dressed in a blue suit and
leaden-colored ping hat, and wore a sort of
calico necktie, considerably soiled at that"
Queen Victoria recently, it is said, desired
to inspect a detachment of Ceylon Rifles that
were in England. None of them knew any
English. When they were paraded in the
grand corridor at .Windsor the Queen, passing
among them, asked one: "Have you been long
in England! ' Ihe answer was in pare Cingalere,
and the iueen, without betrayintr any embar
rassment, answered, "Oh, indeed !" and dropped
the conversation. All the soldiers caught the
remark and remembered it, and when they went
home repeated it to their comrades and friends.
and now in Ceylon the principal English phrase
heard is, "Oh. indeed!" which is very important
because the tueen used it
The Youth's Companion has much admiration
for girls and women who learn to swim. It
says: "Those of our readers who frequent the
seaside resorts do not need to be told that many
of the accomplished swimmers are young ladies.
This is but natural. As their bones are gener
ally lighter than those of men. and their flesh
more buoyant, they have less aifhcultv to over
come in acquiring the art There were
young girls at Newport last summer who could
float on the surface of the ocean with no more
difficulty than they experienced in lying cpon a
sofa. They could hare floated for hours if nec
essary, borne cf the most famous swimming
feats have been accomplished by very yonng
women."
Now that the subject of temperance is so
much discussed, mnch interest attaches to the
conclusions of a man like Cardinal Manning,
who recently summarized his experience as fol
lows: "For thirty-five years I hare been priest
and birhop in London, and, now I approach my
eightieth year. 1 have learned some lessons, and
the first is this: The chief bar to the working
of the Holy Spirit of God in the souls of men
and women is intoxicating drink. I know no an
tagonist to tbat good Spirit more direct, more
subtle, more swaltby, more ubiquitous than
intoxicating drink. Though I have known men
and women destroyed for all Manner of reasons,
yet I know of no cause that affects man. wom
an, ehild and home with such universality ana
steady power as intoxicating drink."
Prince Adam Czartoryski gives an aceonnt
of the death of his grandfather, which striking
ly illustrates the tenacious power of the ruling
passion: Every day, after dinner, be used to
play at a game something like whist The
Pope's nuncio generally joined in it Althoach
he was very weak he always had himself dressed
for the card-table. On the day of his death he
came as usual, bowed to the nuneio, and apolo
gized for being late. As his sieht was fiilinr.
he asked why they had not lit the candles. All
the people in the bouse were assembled in pro
found silence. The Prince turned to bis doctor
and uked how long he would last The doctor
replied, "Another half -hour." On this he apolo
gized for not being able to play any longer with
the nuneio, and the prelate beran to read the
psalms for the dvine. Whilst he was reading
be celd the 1'nnce s band, and as he spoke the
words, "Jly bod, I rive nn mv soul to Thee,"
the Prince pressed bis hand and breathed bis
last l
Nowadays, says a writer in the Philadelphia
Record, you hear tourists at Waehineton con-
tinnally asking, "Which is McKinleyr McKia-
ley is a most satisfactory man to point out
none more so except the big, chubby "Tom"
Reed. It is difficult to identify the aversge
statesman so that your tourist ean pick bun out
of the 300 on the floor, bnt yon have only to say:
"Do you see that man under the eallery. who
looks so much like the first Napoleon with the
devil taken out of him?" To give instantaneous
recognition to your friend, McKinley looks more
like the great Xsapoleon than most pictures or
his satanic majesty. He is about Napoleon's
height and build. has his head
covered with black hair, and his smooth
face, striking features included. Bnt the pierc
ing eyes, which eleamed wickedly, like bale
fires in Napoleon, are steady, liquid, luminous
orbs in McKinley- The expression of his face is
strong and Vet sweet, passionate and pure. His
manner is extremely pleasing, almost iascinai
ing. His cordial, agreeable way wins him a
friend every time he makes an acquaintance,
and then keeps him afterward. He is as eood a
talker in private as in public, with the same
honeyed tones in one an in the other. He has a
keen wit and a much keener sense of humor,
bnt he curbs both, and consequently often ap;.
pears more solemn and etatelv than he realty is.
He has a solid mind, which works slowly and
logically judicially, too, when he will let it He
is a oeliever and even an enthusiast, and so he
makes a good partisan.
We learn too late
Little things are more than great.
Hearts like oars must daily be
Fed with some'kind mystery.
Hidden in a rocky nook.
Whispered from a wayside brook,
Flashed on unsuDect:ni? eyes,
In a winged, swift surpriso;
Small the pleasure is to trace
One continuous commonplace.
Lucy Larcom.
The flannel shirt is an excellent thing
To wear on a summer day,
And we don't object to the'style at all
But what we were going to say
Is
That
A man who will wear a flannel shirt.
And hold up his pant with a sash
As red as a town that is painted right.
Is a man that we want to smash.
Washington Critic.
THOUGH men perspire and the sun's a-Cro,
And the atmosphere aflame,
It is never too hot, by a long, long shot,
For the great American game.
Boston Courier.
Personal Notes About Women.
Miss Ella Led en has been elected superin
tendent of schools at Portland, Ore., with a sal
ary of $3,000 a year. ,
Mrs. Erbe, an Ohio bride of six weeks, wants
a divorce because her husband has failed to do
all that he promised to do, daring his courting.
Miss Ella C Sabin, professor of rhetorio
and elocution in the University of Oregon, has
been elected superintendent of education in the
city of Portland, Ore.
The ex-Empress Carlotta, of Mexico, is not,
as lately reported, in ill health. Physically, she
is as sound as ever; but her mind shows no signs
of regaining its normal condition.
The Queen Recent of Spain is about to build
a seashore cottage for her son, the Kins: This
will necessitate the creation of a new office in
the royal household Master in Ordinary to the
Mosquito Nets.
Mrs. Aiteen was the only surviving sister of
Carlyle. She died on Friday, at Dumfries, in
her seventy-ninth year. Carlyle was very fond
of this sister, nnd there are numerous allusions
to her in his letters and reminisce noes.'
Mrs. Kebecca Taylor, mother of the late
Bayard Taylor, though in her nineties, is a well-
preserved old lady. She visited Westchester the
other day to see the handsome memorial win
dow to her son in the new public library.
Evidently the world is moving. The woman
despising German Emperor has consented that
a bust of a woman shall have a place among the
memorial statuary at the University of Berlin.
The person thus honored is the late Countess
Louise Bose, who left a fortune to the Universi
ty for the aid of poor medical students and the
promotion of medical research.
The wedding presens to be given to. the fut
ure Duchess of Aosta by the city of Turin is an
immense carved and gilded chest decorated in
the mediaeval fashion, and filled with the rich
est velvets, silks, and brocades which can bo
purchased in Italy. The cif t of the ladies of
Turin will be an ottoman in the Louis XV style,
with a large space in the center for holding
flowers.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox wears a white bath
ing suit trimmed with blue braid, and varies the
monotony of a black-hosed majority' by wearing
pink stockings. She is said to look about six
teen in this short-sleeved, short-skirted attire.
She always attracts much attention as she
"walks the plank," but avoids the publicity,
courted by many, of promenading the beach In
bathing ccstnme.
The Duchess of Marlborough has astonished
London society by her beauty and style. She
has become popular at a bound, for she has true
American tact and her manners are as charming
as her face is handsome. She and ber husband
are sought for on every side, and are constantly
dining among the most select re prose ntatives of
English aristocracy. The Duchess is acknowl
edged to be the best-dressed woman in London,
not because her clothes are more eostly than
those of her rivals, but because she has the New
York knack of wearing them to advantage.
Mme. Pelouze, the sister of Daniel Wilson,
has lost most of her splendid fortune. Her
brother induced ber to join him in some of bis
speculations, which came out badly. Mortgages
on her town house and her historical chateau
are being foreclosed, and bailiffs are in possess
ion of most of her goods and chattels. Mme.
Pelouze is in appearance the most mannish and
plainest woman in France, but she is so clever,
bright, genial and generous that she has always
since she arrived at years of discretion had more
devoted admirers of the other sex than, she
knew what to do with. In the number was M.
Grevy. who was her law adviser- before he be
came President of the Republic
Miss Lucy Rostrox, the Enelish beauty, who
eloped with her father's groom, is a tall and
graceful blonde, with a wealth of golden hair.
She is possessed In her own right of a fortune of
290,000. and although only nineteen years old,
has long sinee proved tbat she has a temper of
her own. Aspin. the groom, is past thirty-five,
is married and has five children at home. He is
both homely and illiterate. The arrest of the
couple was made just as the steamer was about
to sail, and the romantic young woman was led
from the boat by the officers jest as the signal
to start was sounded. Aspln was afraid to re
turn to his wife and so comes on to the land of
the free.
Mme. Path's castle r.t Craig-y-Nos, Wales, is
advertised for sale. The reason given by the
diva for this course is the fact that she is being
robbed right and left by her neighbors. They
overwhelm her with appeals for alms and while
she is searching in her purse for the wherewithal
to satisfy these demands the applicants pocket
her choicest bits of bric-a-brac or books. The
park about the castle is overrun with poachers
and even the crops about the place . are being
cut and carried oS at night Patti announces,
by the way, that she will sing in Egypt at about
Christmas time under the management of Mr.
Abbey, and eo thence to Constantinople.
Edwin Booth's only daughter, Mrs. Gross
man, is petite, with pale, sweet face and child
like manners. She is wholly domestic, absorbed
in her husband, children and fat bar. Mr. Gross
si an is a Hungarian and speaks with a strong
foreien accent He has dark eyes and prema
turely gray hair, and is tenderly lover-like in his
manner to his wile always, lne oldest csild.
MvHred, not yet three, has the Booth eyes and
a tragic face even in her babyhood. The baby,
seventeen months old. bids fair to astonish the
world and the trade Booth family by becoming
a comedian. He astonishes his grandfather even
now by his remarkable foats of mimicry.
. The Queen of Rounania is having built at her
country seat a boudoir, wherein to dovote her
self to literary composition. It is constructed
of reeds, behind which is a high hedge of roses
ruoning all around, with niches, ia which cov
ered cages, containing nightingales, are to be
placed. There is a fountain and a tiny cascade
with perfumed water. In the middle of this
fairy chamber, the floor of which is eovered
with thick, soft carpet of rreen turf, is a mossy
bank and a block of polished marble, covered
with mess and ferns, which is hewn in the form
of a desk, and here the Queen is to indite ber
poems, and when exhausted aby her labors she
ean repose herself In a most luxurious ham
mock, siunc with col den cords, which bangs on
one side in close proximity to the nightingales
and the falline waters.
A lady living near Norwich, Conn., has made
a scarecrow that is the envy of the whole coun
try. In figure the searecrow resembles a petite
young lady with a slim waist and a certain air
of supple coyness, which the summer breeze in
tensifies when it rustles up from the meadow
now and then and sets the earden eirl's sailor
suit a-flutter. Only a fashion artist would be
able to fitly describe ber carb. She bas a
basque, a skirt and an overskirt, as all fashion
able young ladies do, all of navy bine, and the
overskirt daintilv looped: the. skirt is modestly
lifted an inch, permitting the eye to catch a
glimpse of a white underskirt. A ruffled fichu
above the shapely bodice, a snowy white collar.
a oright ribbon about the neck and a wide-
brimmed straw bat completes the breeziest and
most bewitching costume in Norwich. Of !
coarse the rain won!d ;poil such a masterpiece,
eo its owner take it in erery rainy dmy and
puts it in a corner of the parlor. Every strange
young man has tried to flirt with the scarecrow
while riding past the field, but the scarecrow
has as yet given no word of encouragement
THE SENSIBLE GIRL.
The damsel who dresses in tulle
In the month of July is no fulle.
It knocks sKts off pique
. On a hot summer's dav.
Per 'tis thin and delightfully culle.
Boston Courier.
VIEWS OF A DEMOCRAT.
He Seys Everything at Frenent Points to Re
publican Success Don't Want Free Trade.
rhiladelptia North American.
There is no use trying to disguise the fact.
for it is evident to all that the current of politi
cal affairs is running in the Republican chan
nel, and indicates Republican success." re
marked a prominent Democratic politician of
this State yesterday. The gentleman stands
high in the Democratic party here, and was dis
cussing the political situation calmly and can
didly. He, however, made the request that his
name should not be ued.
"For the past three or four weeks." he con
tinued, "everything has been running
toward the Republicans. I honestly believe if
the election were held now that Harrison and
Morton ' would be elected. This state of things
is due in a measure to overconfidenee on the
part of the Democrats, but more particularly to
the issue of protection or free trade which 'the
Republicans have made. We are bound to
recognize facts, aui it is just as plain as the
nose on your face that the cry of free trade set
up by the Republicans against the Democratic
party has already eost us thousands of votes
among the workingmen, to say nothing of the
Democratic manufacturers who have gone over
to the Republicans. 1 believe that the working
men of this country are opposed to free trade,
and unless our leaders can convince them that
there is a distinction between tariff reform and
free trade, 1 am free to confess tbat I do not see
much hope for Cleveland's election. The Re
publicans have worked the tariff question very
successfully thus far, and to my mind they have
the upper hand in New York, Connecticut and
New Jersey.
VI am not able just now to say what propor
tion of the Irish vote Harrison will get If tho
Republicans don't overdo ths John Bull racket
they ought to get nearly as many Irish votes as
Blaine did in 1884. But Brother Blaine will be
home next week, and the current will run
stronger and swifter than ever toward Repub
lican success. I firmly believe that within the
nlxt few weeks the betting will take a turn, and
you will hear of wagers at the odds of $100 to
(00 on Harrison's election. There is, as I re
marked before, considerable apathy in the Dem
ocratic ranks,-which has been caused by over
confidence. When the fact begins to dawn on
President Cleveland tbat Senator Quay, tne
shrewd and adroit chairman of the Republican
national committee, has his party thoroughly
and effectively organized in every State, he msy
then take bold of matters himself and force the
fighting on our side of the house. He had bet
ter wake up before it is too late, however. I
am of the opinion that October will see the
campaign at white heat, but I am no; one of
those who believe Cleveland is going to have a
walk-over. Unless there is a revulsion of feel
ing among the workingmen upon the tariff, I
doubt very much whether he will he elected at
alL"
200,000 BLAINE IIANDKERCIIIEFS.
Ue aps of Them to Tin Distributed at the In
man Pier Wnen Mr. Blaioe Arrives.
New York Bun.
Workmen were busy in the basement of 50,
Bond street U day yesterday packing up hand?
kerchiefs of Chinese silk paper to distribute at
the Inman pier next Wednesday. James G.
Blaine is expected to arrive on that day on the
new steamship. City of New York, and the band
kerchiefs are intended to be waved in bis honor.
There were 200,000 of the handkerchiefs packed
in the basement yesterday. The surplus is in
tended to supply voters who will attend the pa
rade and receptions later on. The handker
chiefs have a blood-red border, and a portrait of
Blaine in the center with this inscription under
neath: "Welcome homo, August ISS3."
The handkerchiefs have an adhesive border,
to that they can be stock on to clicks and
waved as flags at a moment's notice.
The preparation of the handkerchiefs revealed
the mammoth scale. upon with the reception
which Blaioe a friend have planned for him has
been arranged. Preparations for it have been
going on ever since Mr. Biaine went to Europe.
Irish Republicans have been leaders in getting
it up. They expeeted when they began that
Blaiue would get the Chicago nomination, and
were staggered when Harrison got it But the
reception will bo carried out all the same.
. Mr. James P. Foster, president of the Na
tional Republican League, has been appointed
marshal for the division to be composed of all
the league clubs participating in the Blaine
parade.
Capt Obed Wheeler has been appointed mar
shal for the division to be composed of veterans
of the late war. headquarters at the Murray
Hill Hotel, where all veterans desiring to par
ticipate in the parade will report to him on or
aftr Thursday afternoon.
The Twenty-second Assembly district Re
publicans met last night at One-hundred-aud-twenty-second
street and Third avenue, and
decided that thev will take part in the Blaine
demonstration. They will wear Derby bats and
carry Morris Friedsam's eagle at the head of
the column. Frank Raymond, the district
leader, said Uerewasno trnth in the report
that Congressman Fitch would resign from the
organization. .
A II I NT TO A MUGWUMP.
A Boy of Eleven Years Writes a Letter
Home to Ilia I'ond Father.
Hartford Con rant.
A well-known and popular Hartford gentleman,
a Republican at heart, but a victim of temporary
aberration into mugwumpism; sent his little boy
into the country for the summer, not long ago,
with, of course, the affectionate and parental in
junction to write home. The boy is eleven years
old, and not unlike his father in being a keen
observer, able to express himself. He is up in
Vermont He dutifully wrote ten pages on
Sunday last, and here is an extract tbst his
amused father can't help showing to his friends:
The othr night I went to a Republican rally. Mr.
B spokrt. lie too up the subject of intrbla, &3
this is a product cf D . and f aid that, while Ital:au
workers got from 30 cer ts to -10 cents a day, the p
plehereJgot about $l.-iOad".y, and so, if tLere
wasn't auy duty on marble, Italy could send her mar
ble (as she is on the sea) cheaper to New York tha
we could send to New York by rail, and as they did
not give their emploves so much, ther could sell it
cheaper, and thus destroy the l qu arrif s.
And so with everything!
1 am for Harrison and Morton.
It is expected that the boy will be heme before
fall, and tbat in these days of "parents obey
your children" he will brine "the old man" to
time on election day. The division of sentiment
will evidently last until the father sees the er
rors of bis way and listens to tho sound advice of
his elevsa-years-old guide.
The People Want a Soldier
In lianai'O'is Special in t'hlla lrlihi Press.
While it is to be regretted that he finally
reached that conclusion, it is not to be supposed
that the party is either out of good timber or
that Governor Porter is fearful of the result. He
expects to take a leading hand in the campaign,
and is confident that viotory will be secured.
The two names most talked of now are those o
General Lew Wallace and Congressman Steele.
E.ther one of them would make a rlorious race.
General Wallace has long been one of Ihe most
popular men in the State. There are several
thousand old soldiers in the State who were in
bis command, and no General was more loved
by his men than he. Congressman Steele is
also deservedly popular. The current of opinion
here here is that one of the two will be nomi
nated. Neither is seeking the office, but eithei
will accept if nominated. The name cf General
Hovev, who now represents the First Congres
sional district is also frequently mentioned,
bnt the Republicans do not like to spare hlra
from Congress. Quite a number are still de
manding that Porter be nominated in the fae
of his letter, but U is generally conceded by the
cooler heads that be is out of the race.
NATURAL. OAS.
Its Production Goes on Constantly, and the)
Supply Is Practically Inexhaustible.
Jiew York Special.
Col Wilson Vance, president of the Findlay
Board of Trade, has come back to New York
from the natural gas region of Ohio to spend a
few of bis accumulating dollars in the enjoy
nieuti of the seashore. Among the bits of newt
which escaped him to-day was' the information
that Senator John Sherman, who is already
largely interested in Findlay, intends to build a
large number of houses there this fall. Con
cerning natural gas the Colonel said:
"We are beginning to demonstrate scientifi
cally exactly what natural gas is. Our house
wives discovered that twice in every twenty
fear hoars the gas seetnsd to flow with a heavies
pressure, so tbat they had to turn down the
burners. This seemed to indicate that the sail
water which is found in the borings below the
gas deposit runs in there with the ebb and flow
of the ocean, forcing gas out or lessening the
rressnre. Some of the water has been put
trroogh the laboratories, and it has oeen found
possible to manufacture natural gas ont of it
I'rofesaor Nedelejef, who baa been examining
the Wood-county oil-fields, has made discover
ies with reference to the oil which parallel our
natural gas experience. lie declares that itc
production is going on constantly, and will eon
tinue indefinitely. He has succeeded in making
it artificially by a similar process to that which,
he believes is going on in the earth, and experts"
find it impossible to distinguish between the
natural and tbe manufactured article.
"HU hypothesis is that water finds it way be
low the crust of the earth and then resets with
carbides of metals (particular)- of iron) in a
glowing state. The water is decomposed into its
constituent gases. The oxygen unites with
iron, .while the hydrogen takes np tbe carbon
and ascends to a higher region, where part of it
is condensed into mineral oil and part re main a
as natural gas, to escape where it finds an out'
let or to remain stored at great preasure until a
bore-hole is DUt down to provide its passage ts
the surface,"
"SIR" GROVER CLEVELAND.
An Italian Editor Cilvos Us Ills Particnlai
Wishes for Nov. 6.
Paris American Register.
We sometimes get political and other news of
the United States in tbe jonrnals of France and
Italy, which our own people, active as the press
is in America, fail to obtain. Tbe French and,
Italian ideas of geography are sometimes fear
ful and wonderful. In a reeent leading Italian
journal, whose proprietor speaks English, and
who is worth more than $12,000,000, I have
teen much amused at a serious editorial, in
leaded type, commenting on tbe exelnsivenes
of certain nations in regard to foreign emi
grants he passes to the presidential campaign
in the United States and gives us the following!
"And now in the United States there is a ter
rible strife as to who shall be the President ol
the United States, whether Sir Grover Cleve
land or General Harrison. Sir Grover Clever
land belongs to the Democratic party. He is f
man of tbe greatest talent, a most learned poll'
ticiral economist an admirer and a follower of
Laveleye. (Great Scott! I wonder if 'Sir Gro
ver ever heard of tbe Great Belgian econoy
mist) Sir Grover Cleveland, as tbe chief of thf
Democratic party, does not accept for a moment
tho outrageous persecution of foreigners, neither
does he believe in unconditionally protecting
national (i. e. American) labor.
"General Harrison, on the other band, is on
of the most incorrigible and intolerant (intran
sigeant) of the Republicans, and consequently
wishes to restrain emigration from Europe, and
render intolerable the condition of all foreign la
borers, driving them from tbe national arsenals
and from all other workshops under the control
of the government
"The presidential contest is not therefore,
one of mere local interest. Italy has many hun
dreds of thousands of her sons, who are opera-
tives and laborers, scattered throughout the
American confederation (sic), and she cannot
but wish victory to perch npon 'Sir Grover Cleve
land The Democratic party is duly advised,
through at least one cf the Italian journals, that
Italy is for "Sir Grover."
An Unpublished Lincoln Letter.
In tbe August Century the authors of the Lin
coin Life give the foUowing unpublished letter
from President Lincoln to the Governor of In
diana;
"Washington. D. C. Sept. 29, 186L
"His Excellency Gov. O. P. Morton Your
letter by the band of Mr. Prank was received
yesterday. I write this letter because I wish
you to believe of us (as we certainly believe of
you) that we are doing tbe very beat we can.
You do not receive arms from us as fast as you
need them; but it is because we have not near
enough to meet all the rressing demands, and
we are obliged to share around what we have, :
sending the larger share to points which appear
to need them most. We have great hope that
our own supply will be ample before long, so j
that you and all others can bavo as many as you':
need. I see an article in an Indianapolis news
paper denouncing me for not answering your
letter sent by special messenger two or three
weeks ago. I did make what I thought the
best answer I con'.d to that letter. As I remem
ber. It asked for ten heavy guus to be distributed
with some troops at Lawrenceburg. Madison,
New Albany and Evansville; and I ordered the.
guns and directed you to rend the troops if you
bad thejn. As to Kentucky, you do not estimate
that State as more important than I do; but I
am compelled to watch all points. While I
write this. I am, if not ui range, at least in heir
ing of cannot shot, from an army of enemies
more than a hundred thousand strong, I do
not expect them to capture this city; but I
know they would if 1 were to send the men and
arms from here to defend Louisville, of which
there is not a single hostile armed soldier within
forty miles, nor any force known to be moving
upon It from any distance. It is true the army,
in ocr front may make a half -circle around
southward and move on Louisville; but when
tbey do, we will make a half-circle around north
ward and meet them; and in tbe meantime we
will get up what forces we can lrom other
source to also meet them.
"I hope Zollicoffer has left Cumberland Gap
(though I fear be baa not), because, if be has, I
rather infer be did it because of his dread of
Camp Dick Robinson, reinforced from Cincin
nati, moving on him, than because of his inten
tion to move on Louisville. Bat if be does go
round and reinforce Buekner. let Dick Robinson
come round and reinforce Sherman, and the
thing is substantially as it was when Zollicoffer
left Cumberland Gap. I state this as an illustra
tion; for in fact I think if tbe Gap is left open to
ns Dick Robinson should take it and hold it;
while Indiana, and the vicinity of Louisville ia
Kentucky, can reinforce Sherman faster than
Zollicoffer can Buekner.
Yours, very truly. A. Lincoln."
Effect of Tariff Literature.
Nw Tcrk SprciaL
Tbe tariff issue continues to make heavy in
roads on the Democrats in this State. James
A Whitney, one of the leading lawyers of thia
city, and a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat is out to
' day for the Harrison and Morton ticket He
has voted with the Democracy since I860, andr
four year ago heartily supported Cleveland.
He declares now that dozns of Democrats ia.
this city have also bolted tbe party ticket Thar
mnre the tariff issue is agitated, he says, tbe
greater will be the accessions of old-line Demo-,
crats to progressive Republicanism. Mr. IL S.
RarasdeU. cf tbe Ramsdell Transportation Com
pany, ruoning boats between here and Albany,
is also bent on leaving the Democracy, and. as
he is a man of iofluense in the Hudson river
towns, his action will bring others over with,
him.
A report from Troy states that six former
Cleveland voters joined a Republican club there
in a body last night Frank McGovern. a
vea'thy Democratic contractor in Rondout hag
: rmed a Harrison Tariff Club, composed only
former Democrats. It has now a member
-h p of twenty-six. He promises one hundred
before he stops. There are large cement inter
eta in his district
Many of these conversions are the result of
the wide distribution of tariff literature beiof
made by the State committee.
Cardinal Manning's Birthday.
Tall Hall Gasttte. , . ...
On Sunday Cardinal Manning completedhls
eightieth year. Tbe week in which Cardinal
Manning completed his e-gbtieth year is the
week in which we shall celebrate the defeat of
the Spanish Armada. It is a welcome lUustra
tion of the extent to which old eccleaiastica
and theological animosities have disappeared
that there is probably co Englishman ia all the
empire who will more heartily sympathize
with ths commemoration of that great deliver
ance of our heretical forefathers from the
armies of the Papists than tho good Cardinal,
who ts at once one of tbe taost imperial and
patriotic of living Englishmen, and the foremos
pillar of the Catholie Church la her Msj ally's;
dominion.