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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1889.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1889. j
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The liquor-sellers of Pennsylvania,
mistaking the late vote against prohibi
tion, and the decision of the Supreme
Court as an indorsement of saloon
methods, seem to have gono wild, last
Sunday, all over the State, and to have
made the day one of general carouse.
They seem determined to prove the
"truth of tho allegations of the Prohibi
tionists, that there is nothing in tho
Brooks law that a saloon-keeper is
hound to resnect. This mav make Pro
hibitionists, like the mad freaks of
slavery made Abolitionists thirty yeara
a cri
The Berlin Post is slightly mistaken
when it says that the British ministers
have remained at Berlin to continue ne-
gotiations "respecting the common
sphere of influence of the three inter-
i . o i mi a
estcu powers in canioa. .ineir negoti
ations relate wholly" to matters which
concern England and Germany alone.
Our matters were all adjusted and well
denned before our commissioners left,
though the text of the protocol has not
yet been published. President Harrison
is not the kind of man to leave things
half dono or to intrust our interests to
1 1 it. t a T- aV r
eituer mo xriusu or me ucriuuii min
isters, or to both together.
There will be but one excuse for tho
State Board of Education if it accepts
the bid of the Indiana School-book Com
pany. The only possible defense for
such action would be that the law leaves
them no discretion to reject the bid.
Otherwise they, as professional edu
cators, will be responsible for fastening
on tho schools of Indiana a patch-work
Bet of antiquated, inferior school
vbooka which fall far below the standard
UACU UJ I&IO 4.4 W UUU UtiUII VUO UJJt.CS
now in use. They cannot violate tho
law, but it leaves them a largo m discre
tion, and it is their duty to exercise it
for the protection of the public schools.
Prof. T. C. Mendenhall, who has
'been appointed superintendent of tho
'Coast and Geodetic Survey, is president
of tho Roso Polytechnic Institute at
Terre Hauto, and widely known in scien
tific circles. The bureau to which he
has been appointed has charge of coast
surveys involving triangulation and to
pography, hydrographic surveys, includ
ing observations of tides and currents,
and geodetic and topographical surveys
of the interior of tho country. The su
. perintendent of tho bureau receives a
salary of $6,000 a year, and thero are
ibout a hundred and fifty employes, in
cluding experts, technicists, draughts
men, engravers, etc.
TriEpeoploof Indiana have already
profited very largely by the 250 license
;law. Scores of cities and towns bavo
increased the saloon license to, tho max
imum, the general rate of increase being
from $150 to $200. This has put a great
many thousand dollars into city treas
uries which would not have gone there
otherwise, and has diminished the' bur
dens of other tax-payers just so much.
In almost every instance the increase of
license has been made a party question,
and the Democrats have opposed it
solidly, as they did in this city. What
ever benefit the people are to derive
from the act will como in spite of tho
determined opposition of tho De
mocracy. A few years agosome ten or twelve
Judge Niblack, of tho Indiana Supreme
Court, wrote an opinion in which wasa
new departure on tho question of dam
ages,, holding that "contributory negli
gence greatly modified, if it did not
wholly exempt from, a claim for dam
ages. The opinion was at once adopted
by many courts, and for a decade or
,inoro the plea of "contributory negli
gence77 has figured largely in all damage
enits. Tho doctrine seems to have had
its day, and "contributory negligence-'
does not cut tho figure it did. A recent
decision in a Philadelphia court holds
that though the sufferer might have
Been tho pile of stone over which ho
fell, the' city is responsible for damages,
as the stones were there contrary to law.
Times must bo sadly out of joint in
Chicago when the Times devotes a half
column to denouncing tho Mayor
for not enforcing the law. We have no
idea upon what basis the Times says,
"that when tho proper time arrives tho
people of Chicago, whoso opinions are
neither regulated nor controlled by the
bar-rooms, will take measures, and vig
orous ones," to stamp with disapproba
tion the man who knowingly and delib
erately refuses to enforce tho ordinances
passed for tho protection of society
We predict that no such a time is near
at iand. Busy, solid men will not go
to the polls, and good men will throw
away their votes on somo one whom
they know they cannot elect, instead of
working with men not belonging to
their party in securing a good man for
Mayor regardless of party.
CANADIAN" COMMERCIAL AGGRESSION.
.Mr. Joseph Niinmo, formerly of tho
United States Statistical Bureau, and
now a resident of New York, has done a
public service in calling attention to tho
aggressive commercial policy of Canada,
as shown in the management of tho
Canadian Pacific railway. That railway
has been styled "tho Dominion govern
ment on wheels," and its history and
management seem to justify the designa
tion. The road cost $1G1,000,000, and
was subsidized by tho Dominion govern
ment tolho amount of $215,000,000. It
has established a steamer line to China
and Japan, which receives' a subsidy of
$300,000 a year from the government.
This is intended to capture tho Pacific
trade. Our Asiatic mail service is twenty
times as large as that of Canada, yet tho
United States government pays only a
paltry $14,000 for it, as against $300,000
paid by Canada. We are afraid of sub
sidies, but Canada does not hesitate to
resort to them to extend her commerce.
Tho result is, she is fast capturing our
Asiatic trade and our transcontinental
railroad traffic. Turning in another
direction, we find a situation described
as follows:
The Canadian Pacific Railroad Company
has built a road through the spruce forests
of Maine, by tho favor of tho Legislature of
that State. This particular line receives a
subsidy from the Dominion government of
S1S6,000 a year for twenty years, and it will
connect at St. John, N. B., or Halifax, with
a line of steamers which is to receive a
Canadian subsidy of $.00,000 a year. This
subsidized rail and steamer line will not
bring trade to New England, hut it will di
vert a part of the foreign commerce of
Canada, and a considerable part of the
foreign commerce of our interior States
from New York, and Boston, and Portland,
and from American transportation lines.
This was tho precise object had in view in
granting the two subventions just men
tioned. Hut tfiis is ouly the head and front
of Canadian political exploitation upon
American commerce. The two steamer
lines above mentioned, which receive sub
sidies of $300,000 and $500,000 a year, re
spectively, aro also to have tho hacking of
subsidies from the British Admiralty ollice,
upon two conditions:
First, that they may be readily converted
into armed cruisers; secondly, that they
may ho taken by the British government at
any moment when needed for war purposes.
The amount of these Admiralty subsidies is
not publicly known.
Again, tho Canadian Pacific railway has
been enabled to secure lines in Maine,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and
the franchise of a bridge across the strait
of Ste. Marie, granted by the United States
government, while tho Dominion govern
ment exerts its power to the fullest extent
toward preventing American lines from
entering Canada.
All this goes to show that the Domin
ion government and the Canadian Pacific
railway thoroughly understand each
other, but it does not convey an impres
sion that tho United States government
or the American people understand them
selves very well. The commercial policy
of Canada is of a piece with that of
Great Britain insidious, aggressive and
thoroughly selfish. From a British and
Canadian point of view, that is right,
but from an American point of view, our
commercial policy should be equally
selfish. We have heard a good deal
about commercial reciprocity with Can
ada. The Canadian idea of reciprocity
seems to be of the jug-handle kind all
on one side. The trouble is the Amer
ican Congress does not fight bravely for
American interests.
THE INTERN AL-HEVENTTE SYSTEM.
It is not improbable that Congress, at
its next session, will practically abolish
what remains of tho internal-rcvenuo
system as an organized system of taxa
tion. Internal-revenuo taxes are dis
tinctively war taxes. They have always
been' called so, and have never been re
sorted to except in an emergency. In
the early history of tho government they
wero regarded as opposed to tho genius
of our institutions, and wero very un
popular. All parties wero opposed to
them, and it was conceded on all hands
that they should not be levied if it could
possibly be avoided. Nevertheless, they
wero sometimes resorted to under tho
stress of national necessity. One of tho
earliest measures of this class, that of
1790, gavo rise to the so-called "whisky
insurrection" in Pennsylvania, which
was not easily handled. In 1802, on
tho recommendation of Jefferson, all
internal-revenue taxes were abol
ished. Jefferson was very bitter
against tho whole system, denouncing
it in his usual intemperato and extreme
fashion. Tho war of 1812 compelled tho
government again to resort to internal
revenue taxes, and they continued to bo
collected for several years. InlS18tho
entire system was again repealed, and
from that time till 1801 no direct or internal-revenue
tax was jmposed. Tho
present system dates from 1801, and has
been in operation twenty-seven years
much longer than the aggregate life
of all the other internal revenuo laws
previously enacted. Like the rest, it
was, and is, distinctly a war tax, re
sorted to in an emergeney.
The present system wa not fully or
ganized till July, 1802. At that, time,
and for several years afterward, tho
law was one of the most comprehensive
tax laws ever enacted by any
government. It was also one of
the most productive. Tho London-
Economist said of it: "No other
nation would have endured a system of
excise duties so searching, so effective,
so troublesome." The American peoplo
not only endured it, but . bore it almost
uncomplainingly. It was a natural ne
cessity arid 'patriotic, duty to do it.
From 1S01 to 1SG7 twenty-five different
internal-revenue laws were enacted, and
the amendments were almost innumer
able. They yielded an enormous reve
nue. Beginning wiih $37,G40,737 in 1803,
it reached. $300,22,813 in 18CG. Since
then, by the successive repeal of ditter
ent taxes, it has declined to about $120,
,000,000 a year. The aggregate revenuo
; from this source during the last twenty-
five years amounts to thousands of mill
ions of dollars. Last year the internal
revenue was $121,320,473. r
When it is said that Congress will'
probably at an early day abolish tho
present system of internal revenue, it is
not meant that it will entirely abolish
internal revenue taxes, but will
reduce them considerably, and sim
plify the process of collecting
them. This has been going on for many
years, until now the only objects of tax
ation are distilled spirits, tobacco in its
various forms, fermented liquors and
oleomargarine. Of these items distilled
spirits yielded in 18S8 $C9,30G,1CO, tobacco
yielded $30,002,431, fermented liquors
$23,324,218 and oleomargarine $8U,139.
The total expense of collecting the in
ternal revenue last year was $3,026,038.
This is not a large percentage on the
amount collected, but, considering tho
small number of articles taxed, and tho
ease of collecting it, it is too much.
There are now 03 collectors, 947 deputy
collectors, 180 clerks, 603 gaugers
and 1,367 store-keepers. Most of
this force is engaged in collecting
tho tax on whisky. If the tax on tobacco
should be repealed, tho tax on spirits
and fermented liquors could be collected
by United States marshals and their
deputies. This would simplify the sys
tem, remove an unnecessary tax, and
reduce the cost of collection. It is prob
able this will be the next step in the way
of reducing and simplifying internal
revenue taxes.
DARE TO DO RIGHT.
There is no better indication of a hap
py future for our country our whole
country than many of tho utterances
of some of the ' older and wiser men of
the South. Hon. Henry M. Rector was
Governor of Arkansas thirty years ago,
and though individually opposed to se
cession, he went with his State into tho
rebellion, but now that the unwisdom,
of that step is apparent, he is for tho
Union forever. He recently delivered
an address which abounds in words of
wisdom. Like all tho more thoughtful
of Southern men, he now sees that what
ever local or temporal advantage there
may have been in slavery, its founda
tion was wrong, and evil must come of
it in the end, henco it is well that it is
abolished. But he sees dangers yet
ahead. There are 7,000,000 colored peo
ple .in the land. Assuming that tho
white race must govern tho land,, tho
question to be met is, what to do
about tho negro. Mr. Hector
does not answer the question in detail,
but he gives somo sound advice. He
says: "There must be no stealing of
ballot-boxes; thero must bo free and
fair elections and an honest count. -The
fountain-heads of liberty must not bo'
corrupted." That is solid and sensible.
Momentary disadvantages to some may'
seem at times to follow such directions,
but no other foundation is safe. Dare
to do right with the weak as well as
with the strong, and the country is safe.
The 'situation" of our national
finances defies and confounds all the
'"theories" of wisest siudeuts of the- laws
of money and trade. Here we have tho ,
exportation of $67,000,000 of gold and
silver durifig the year ending Juno 30,
nearly one-half of which went put
during the mouths of May and June.
Now, by all theories on money, that
ought to produce a stringency, but not
a ripplo is apparent in the situation of
the money market. Besides this ship
ment of specie, or its equivalent bullion,
the amount of gold certificates outstand
ing decreased in June alone, $12,231,903,
and greenbacks $1,810,698, and bank
notes to the amount of $3,593,708 were
retired, and yet the gold and silver coin
held by the treasury increased more
than the coinage during tho month, so
that, in all forms, tho circulation de
creased during tho month $16,964,637,
having diminished $34,000,000 since May
1, and yet the circulation is $8,000,000
larger than one year ago, and $63,000,000
larger than two years ago. These facts
and figures confound all financial doc
trinaires. About a hundred years ago the Stato of
Massachusetts exempted from taxation for
five years all breweries that would average
two barrels a week of "strong beer," giving
as a reason that this would encourage the
cultivation of barley, hops and other things
that enter into tho brewing business, and
because malt liquors were especially
"wholesome . and preventive of the uso of
spirituous liquors." Massachusetts has not
materially changed her views in a hundred
years, except that she taxes her breweries
now,
The Cincinnati Commercial works itself
np to the point of exclaiming: "We stand
in rapt admiration before the old Grecian
statues of tho Thrower of the Disc, the Dy
ing Gladiator, tho Apollo Belvidere, and
the Venus of Milo. Why should we fail to
accord to Sullivan the admiration due him
for his splendid physical perfection)" Now,
that may bo all right as to tho other parties,
but it is hardly fair to mako the Venus of
Milo do service in defense of prize-fighting.
As there is no politics in it that is, no
party politics it isto be hoped that the sug
gestion to so amend the national Constitu
tion as to allow Congress to enact a uniform
marriage and divorce law will grow in fa
vor until the deed is done. Cases occur daily
of gTeat wrong against innocent parties
growing out of the divorce laws upon this
eminently overshadowing social institu
tion. The Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce
will invite tho congress of American
nations, which is to meet at Washington,
next October, to visit Pittsburg, as the
guest oi ine cny, anu 10 inspect uer manu
factories and her commercial advantages.
Why not invite them to Indianapolis, alsof
AB01T PEOPLE AND THINGS.
When walking out the Empress of Rus
sia always carries a large fan, with which
to screen her face from those who stare
rudely at her.
Sarah Bernhardt has developed a great
liking for Americans. She seeks their so
ciety, invites them to her entertainments
and openly assorts that they are the wit
tiest people in the world.
Chari.es W. Sander?, who devised the
text-books in reading and spelling, over
which no many American youth have tear
full v struggled, died in Now York city last
Friday, aged eighty-four.
Mme. Buloz, whose death is announced,
was the wife of the founder of the Revue
des Deux Morides, and mother of its pres
ent director. She greatly aided her hus
band in establishing the Revue, especially
in the stormy days of 1S38, whenM. Bnloz
edited his magazine in a cell intbe debtors'
prison at Ciichy, and had Geo. Sand for a
prooi-reader.
Secretary Rusk is'rapidly coming to
the front as the most popular Cabinet
officer among the- Washington newspaper
men. The correspondents regret that he is
going to leaye his hotel and keep house.
TnEonco noted Kusian sculptor Theo
dore Kamensky is a humble inn-keeper in
Clearwater, Fla, At one time a favorite of
the Czar, he was afterward exiled, and is
now living in poverty under a fictitious
name. - - .. -
If Warasdin, Croatia, a mother . of 117
years gave away her maiden daughter of
eighty-three to a tramway conductor of
forty-six. Tho elder lady of the two was
in ecstacy of delight at having lived to see
her child married.
Says Emilo Zola: "Ten years ago I gave
up tobacco at the instance of my doctor. I
do not believe, however, that tho intelli
gence and the creative strength of man aro
injured by smoking. Perfection is so stupid
that I am often sorry I ceased smoking.''
Miss Mary Wanamaker, the Postmaster-general's
daughter, will r:.ke her debut
in Washington society next fali. She is not
yet out of her teens, but is an accomplished
girl of considerable beauty. She has had
the training of an excellent education and
is skilled in music and languages.
All is not joy and sweet content even at
the seaside resorts. Here is a note culled
from an Eastern paper: "The saddest sum
mer resort in Maine this week is Higgihs's
Beach, where a dead whale came without
any invitation, and occupies altogether too
much of the air to suit other summer visit
ors.
Prof. William D. Whitney, of Yale,
has had another LL. D. added to his name,
this time by the University of Edinburgh.
The same degree had already been con
ferred npon him by St. Andrew and Har
vard universities, by William and Mary
College, and by Williams College, his alma
mater. .
Meissonier was married on the first day
of the Secretan sale, and probably had lit
tle leisure to think about his pictures, or
he would have been gratified to observe
that the twenty-four paintings from his
hand which figured in the collection brought
the round total of 93S.700 francs almost a
million.
When Phillips Brooks was lecturing to
theological students at New Haven, he ap
pointed a day on which he would answer
questions. One "theologue" inquired:
"What do you think of Dwight L. Moodvt"
Quick as a Hash the answer came: "What
impresses me most about Mr. Moody is the
astonishing good sense of the man."
The time of grace which can be allowed
to guests who are late for dinner arouses an
interesting discussion. It appears that in
London some come three-quarters of an
hour late. England is undoubtedly the
most irregular and rude on this point of
punctuality. Nowhere in Europe is such
tardiness permissible. In Russia it is re
garded as correct to como a little before the
time set, so as to bo jeady on the precise
moment. m .
The pigs-in-clover scheme was patented
ten or more years ago, and when the latest
"inventor" applied for a patent he discov
ered that it was not obtainable for this rea
son. He is said to have realized more than
100,000 of profit before the game played
out, and ho was only brought up with a
round turn a short time ago, when tho
original patentee secured an injunction re
straining him from conducting his business
any longer.
The International Theater at the Paris
exhibition is now completed, and only wait
ing for the electric light, which was prom
ised to be in readiness a week ago. The
theater is capable of holding 2,500 persons,
and has been completed by Mr. Se3rmour
.Wade in the short space of thirty-five days
from the signing of the contract, at a cost
of 8,000. The Parisians cannot under
stand how an Englishman managed to ob
tain tho concession, and are astonished at
the idexv of a foreigner building a theater
in their exhibition.
Sallie I). Proctor, widow of the late
Professor Proctor, is now at Corona Lodge,
Orange Lake, Fla. At the request of a
great many friends she has decided to de
liver a number of Professor Proctor's lect
ures next winter. The subjects she has
chosen are tho "Snn," "Moon" and "Other
Worlds Than Ours." Mrs. Proctor will
make use of the lantern and slides em-
Sloyed by her late husband. There is no
oubt that her lecture tour will be a great
success, owing to Professor Proctor's great
popularity as a scientist and herown gifted
and pleasing personality.
The erroneous announcement of the mar
riage engagement of Mrs. Pickett, widow
of General Pickett, of the famous charge at
Gettysburg that bears his name, was a dou
ble wrong to Colonel Lynch and to Mrs.
Fickettj and it gave her age at fifty, al
though she was but a school-girl in her
teens wheu the General formed his lines
and made the charge against the bloody
angle on Cemetery Hill. Mrs. Pickett is
still earning her own living in the Pension
Ollice at Washington, where she was placed
by General Grant, and 6he is not matrimo
nially inclined, according to semi-official
reports.
Sis Julian Pauncefote has been ranch
amused at the anger expressed by the Fer
siau embassador toward tho American
press. Tho fact is Sir Julian, like Hadje
Hassein Ghooly Khan, has made use of a
press-clippings bureau to keep him in
formed regarding the expressions of-the
journals of this country in his regardT In
many instances the clippings sent to Sir
Julian have not been extremely compli
mentary, and the paragraphers nave not
been gentle with him. But he has only
laughed at all this. He has a CTeater ad
miration for American humor than has the
Persian. . .
0e of the latest toys of tho young King
of Spain, in which he is beginning to take
great interest, was presented to his Majesty
by the officers of the regiment of guards of
which ho became the colonel by right of
birth. This specially designed toy consists
of a reproduction, on a lilliputian scale, of
the live hundred officers and men of the
regiment, each diminutive soldier being an
accurate copy in uniform and accoutre
ments of the original. It is accompanied
by a tiuished model of the barracks in
which tho regiment is quartered, and thero
are the bandsmen, too, each with his own
special instrument, and a series of trans
port wagons, ambulance carriers, ammuni
tion carts, etc.
COMMENT AND OPINION.
History will have to be revised before
it says that all the Southern people who
went into the rebelliion did so from choice
rather than coercion. Had it not been for
the hot-headed leaders the conservative
feople of the South would have waited a
oug time before calling secession conven
tions. Detroit Tribune.
It wonld be far less absurd to insist upon
filling every vacancy in the faculty of Har
vard University from among residents of
Massachusetts than it would be to make a
rule that no man or woman shall be ap
pointed to take charge of an Indian school
in New Mexico unless he or she in a resident
of that Territory. Bostoir Advertiser.
The longer tho mania for speculation in
trust certificates shall endure the more
overwhelming will be tho inevitable cata
clysm. The question is whether the monop
olists who have manipulated these com
binations and so cleverly excited the greed
for speculation in trust certificates will be
able to throw the entire burden of ruin
upon their victims Philadelphia Record.
It is a credit to the Nation to have in its
chief executive chair a man who is too
much of a scholar to need to go to the en
cyclopedia to piece out his lack of informa
tion: too much of a gentleman to stand up
and lecture his audiences on the tremeu
dousness of the responsibilities resting up
on him, and too much of a statesman to
write peevish, uncivil letters to comic pa
pers. Philadelphia Press.
It is absurd to plead the right of any man
to make himself a criminal and a nuisance
ju the name of courage and science. We
can condemn and suppress prize-fighting
without harming the interests of courage or
doing injury to the cause of acjence. There
must be a certain amount of fighting in the
world, of course: it would not otherwise be
our world, as the genial creator of Tom
Brown at Rugby remarks. But it need not
and should not he done after the style of
Sullivan and Kilrain, and for purposes
which aro an offense to common decency.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, t
If any man were to manage his private
business allairs as railway magnates man-'
age the great business investments of other
people, their property wonld be taken out
of their hands by proceedings in delunatico
inquirendo upon the petition of any inter-,
ested party: nut railway directions seem to
have entire immunity from the commou
sense restraints of law in wasting the mill
ions intrusted to their management Phila
delphia Times.
There is unfortunately an undercurrent
of the ticer in human nature. Those who
indulge it become enamored of the sight of
horrors, and learn to love emotions which
at first make their hearts . recoil. with dis-
fust at . the inhumanity of man to man.
he only way prize-lights can be done away
with is by teaching the pnblic that the law
is to be respected, and that can bo accom
plished only by giving striped jackets to!
those who break its ordinances. New
York Press.
A manual laborer who has no representa
tion or voice in the making of the laws or.
the administration of justice can be noth
ing but a slave. Yet to that condition the
white loafers and idlers of the South pro
pose to reduce the. negro. The doctrine of
the Died Scott ca'se is to be re-established
and the negro isto have no rights a white
man is bound to respect. 'Fully stated, the
purpose is to nullify the laws and Con
stitution of the United . States in order to
make the laborers and wealth-producers of
the South virtually slaves. Chicago Tribune.
THE 1IARU1SON AD3ILN1STRATTOX.
An Editor Who Is Well Pleased, and Is Not
. Worried Over Indianapolis Appointments.
Logan sport Journal. ,
The Journal is well pleased with about
everything the administration has done,
and finds no fault worth naming. Above
11, it is pleased with the honest enforce
ment of the civil service law, by - PreaU '
dent Harrison. He and his party were
pledged to that course, and the Journal be
lieves that the Republican party can gain
no higher credit than that ot strictly abid
ing by its pledges to the people. Further
more, it believes that tho strict enforce
ment of the civil service law is the
best method of securing its , re
peal, and the substitution - of
a better and more trnly American system.
The shams and frauds of tho Cleveland ad
ministration, and the hypocritical pre
tenses ot uieveiana organs, nave createa a
popular impression that there must be
something good in the law if it could only
have a fair trial. President Harrison will
give it a fair trial, and the Journal is con
hdent that it will not pass through that
ordeal with popular approval. Neither is
the Journal worried aoout Indianapolis
cettinc so manv irood anoointments. It is
more disposed to be proud that Indiana ,
nas so many good men to nil distinguished
positions in the public service. Every oner
of them is an honor to the State, : and
worthy in every respect of their appoint
ment. No Republicans in any other part of
the State bad higher or even equal claims
to the positions'they received. The great
masses of the party and the people are sat
isfied with them, and the grumoler ofl in
one corner may as well save his breath for
better service in the next campaign. The
Republican party in Indiana will not per
mit itself to be seriously disturbed by the
locality of a few appointments to high gov
ernment positions, while those appoint
ments were so manifestly fit to be made.
Tho Journal and all good Republicans
have every reason to be satisfied with 1 the
present administration, and may look for
ward with bright hopes to, its future,
careen Already tho world concedes its
brilliant triumphs in diplomacy, , with
others in that field yet to follow.- In a few
months its transient troubles over the of
fices will bo ended, and its domestic policy
will be inaugurated. Then the calm sat
isfaction of to-day will become the enthus- h
lastic and resistless approval ot tho right
that will sweep tho land and silence carp
ing criticism. f
THE CITY OF DEVILS LAKE.
How Two . JHaliops Were IJadly Shocked A
Startling Bank-Check Device.
Devils Lake Letter in St Louis O lobe-Democrat
Show a Dakota community something
that will "help the town," and, public spirit
will do the rest. The more novel the propo
sition the'auicker the response with money
and time. Monuments of local enterprise
are as thick as cities in Dakota.
The Devils Lake pejple are every hit as
public spirited as their fellow Dakotaus,
and a little nioro original than some of
their neighbors. Their big men pov to
gether, once upon a time, and resolved that
Devils Lake must have something to dis
tinguish herself. They dismissed the idea
of a big hotel; it was too common. A college
di dn't sccih t o be exact ly t he thin g; t here a re
thirteen colleges in Dakota. One good rail
road, a trunk line, they already had and
there wasn't any particular reason for an
other. Any town conld put money into
stone, brick and mortar; therefore the Dev
il's Lakers decided not to spread themselves
iust then upon an opera-house or a $".50,000
business block. At length the idea came. .
A delegation of the smoothest talkers and
the mostgenerous capitalists was organ'
ized. One night the party vwent aboard a
Manitoba sleeper and was off. All the rest
of Dakota was in profound ignorance of
the scheme. The delegation traveled across
the country and stopped at Philadelphia,
where the dignitaries of the -Episcopal
Church were holding a meeting, f he Da
kotaus qbtamed an audience and told t'les
of the Territory's development which
caused the bishops to open their eyes. - The
stories were truo enough, for that was tho
period, three or four years r.go, when Dakota
was coming forward at a rate of which the
rest' of the country had no conception.
. When the members of the delegation had
sufficiently enlightened the churchmen they
unfolded their plan. They wanted a see
formed of the northern half of Dakota, and
a bishop appointed to take up his episcopal
residence in their dity. They were prepared
to build the episcopal residence,- and they
were prepared to guarantee the income from
thb see. In fact, they got right down to
hard pan, and put their proposition in dol
lars and cents.
The churchmen listened with interest and
amazement. They were not fully prepared
for such brezzy, practical callers. A vener-r
able bishop, when the pause came to per
mit a reply to the delegation, asked, with
a good deal of deliberation:
"This place oi yours, gentlemen, is"
"Devils Lake, sir," promptly replied the
leader of the delegation. '
".Devils Lake!" ejaculated the good man,
and he looked around at his fellow-churchmen,
who smiled m response.
"Gentlemen," said the old bishop, when
he had recovered from the shock, 'we ap
preciate your zeal and your enterprise. Y a
must recognize Dakota's claims. We aro
glad to hear of the strength of the church
in the Territory. But, really, I don't be
lieve we can accept your proposition.
Why, gentlemen, just think how it would
sound "
"'Bishop of Devil's Lake!'
"No, gentlemen," the old bishop conclud
ed, with a shake of the head, "I am afraid
that would never do. Think of the feel
ings of the unfortunate brother who would
be irreverently hailed, wherever he went,
as Bishop of Devil's Lake.'"
' The Devil's Lakers returned home. In
due time North Dakota became a see, and,
Bishop Walker was appointed to take
charge of it. but ho made his episcopal
residence at Fargo.
" The bishop is an Eastern man, scholarly
and artistic. In going about over the Da
kota prairies he found the granite bowlders
interesting subjects of study. These bowl
ders are numerous only in isolated places.
Sometimes one will travel for miles and uot
see any. Then there will be quite a collect
tionot them. They are of varying sizes,
worn until they are almost rouud, and of
different colors. The bishop conceived tho
idea that these bowlders might be dressed
and put into the walls of a cuurch. He re
membered the enterprising Devil's Lake
people, and broached his plan to them.
They took hold of it at once, and the re
sult is seen in one of the most unique stone
churches to be seen in the country.' The
variety in size and the combinations of
colors attract even the uncultivated eye,
while the geologist and artist stand and
gaze in delight at these walls of dressed
bowlders. Professor Montgomery, of the
North Dakota University, when he visits
Devil's Lake, never fails to spend some
time in admiring study of the walls of tho
stone church. There are 6ermons in these
stone8for him. He says that no such page
of geolouv was ever printed as the bishoi.
has presented in one of the walls of tho
church. The bishop has since built four
of these unique chapels in as many cities of
North Dakota, aim they never fail to ex
cito the complimentary comment of strang
ers. The bank of Devils Lake and manv of the
bosinesi men in early days had in use a de-
sign for checks and letter-heads which
a startling curiositv. A sheaf of wheat
stood npripht with a" ribbon for a band, and
on the baud was inscribed: "No. 1 hard.
In hoc sicno vinces." ' Above tho sheaf was
a silver dollar resting upon its dge. tho
reference being to the uuiform price of Si a
bushel for wheat in those days. Upon tho
dollar .was presented an outline of th
lake. Above the dollar stood BeelzebnU
with tail revealed, holding scales in ouo
hand, pointing with the other to the exact
location of the city on the lake. The motto
"Give the devil his due" completed this odd
device. This was printed upon tho bills of
the bank. Soon after the issue was out
thero came a letter from a national bank in,
the Quaker city of Philadelphia, which had
refused the bishopric, inclosing ten new
crispnational bank notes,andaskm to have)
them exchanged for like bills of the bank
of Devils Lake.
Since the city has become so well supplied
with churches and schools, and refined so
ciety has taken the place of the pioneering
of six years ago, this artistic tribute to tho
patron of Devils Lake has gone out of fash
ion. THE JOILNSTOWX SUPTLIES.
How the Jfeople Are Heine: Fed and Clothed
Johnstown (Pa.) Democrat
The call for help which went up from tho
survivors of the great disaster of May 31,
1S&V in Johnstown and vicinity was re
sponded to by tho people of the whole
country in such a manner as. for Christian
charity and liberality, to stand unparal
leled in the history of the world. The large
contributions of rood, clothing, and house
hold supplies sent here are being faithfully
and impartially distributed among the
needy. This distribution is now so
thoroughly systematized that to tho deserv
ing poor these supplies are easy of access
and to the imposture public exposure is
reasonably sure. The manner of distribu
tion may. prove interesting to many con
tributors w ho are unable b3' reason. of dis
tance to come and see for themselves.
The city and adjoining towns are divid
ed into proper commissiary districts, at
which the. distribution is made. For ex
ample, just opposite the Pennsylvania,
railroad passenger station is Commissary
No. 3, known also as Prospect Hill depot.
This commissary is in charge of Lieut. W.
T. Richardson, of Mahauoy City, Pa., as
sisted bY1 Commissary Sergt. D. L. Brindle.
of Carlisle, and R. S. Magee, quarter-master
sergeant, of Wightsville, and an effi
cient corps of assistants. The contribu
tions are sorted out at the railroad statious
and a portion sent hero for distribution.
The commissary named is 60 divided thab
there are separate apartments for groceries,
meat, bread, fioux and other provisions, as
well as -for boots and shoes, gentleman'
clothing, ladies' wear, and household
goods, clailv distribution being made from
each department. In the grocery aud pro
vision department of Lient. Richardson's
commissary tickets are given to such per
sons as arc entitled to relief. These tick
ets have the name, residence, and number
of persons in the family, and the days
of the month beginning with the 12th and
ending with tho SOth of June. The holder
of the ticket is entitled to receive pro
visions daily for the number of persons
named upou presentation of the' ticket.
When the provisions are supplied the date
is penciled out and nothing more can bo
gotten on the date designated. : .
In the clothing department a competent
man is in charge of tho passageway, who
ascertains the present aud former residenc
of the applicant aud such facts as aro
necessary to determine whether not the re
lief should be extended. If the applicant
is entitled to assistance lie is given a ticket
upon which is written a list of articles
wanted, which tho holder takes from de
partment to department, until all tho
jirticles are obtained, when the ticket 'is
taken up.. Incase all tho articIescanuot
be obtained tho holder retains the tieket.
the articles supplied having been stricken
off.
The household goods are distributed by
receiving the applications lor articha
needed, and if, after proper examination,
the applicant appears to be entitled to rr-r
lief, the goods are delivered at such places
as are designated and a receipt taken, there
for. A complete list is kept of all such person
.as hold tickets, together with the number
of persons comprising the family and th
number of persons housed who were flooded
out. and also of all personsreceiving house
Lold implies.
When Lieut-Col. Spangler. now assist
ant 'commissary-general of Pennsylvania,
took charge of the supplies on Juno 2, all
4 A. l f i., . .
was coniusion ana excnemeni, aim it war
impossible to svstematize the distribution
at once, but a few days brought order out
of choas, and when depot No. 3 was placed
in charge of Lieut. Richardson, who is an
experienced grocer, it was fortunately
placed in the hands of an energetic man
possessing raro executive ability in this di
rection, and through his efforts this com
missary has gained the respect and admira
of the whole community. ,
THE PARIS ELOPEMENT. .
Mrs. Hitchcock Coming Hack to America to
Procure a Divorce.
New York Worll. 1
Mrs. George Hitchcock, whose hnsband
ran away from her in Paris with Misn
O'Halloran, is now in London. She did
not sail for America last iveek asshe had
intended to do', becauso the relatives of
her husband cabled to her at the last mo
ment to wait for tho arrival of a friend
from New York. The friend arrived on
Saturday and took Mrs. Hitchcock to
Iirivato lodgings, leaving no address at the
lotel where she had been stopping. Mrs.
Hitchcock is really in a pitiable condition,
and is too much distressed and excited to
be able to talk connectedly about her plans
and prospects.. She will not say a word
against her husband or sanction a single
step toward criminal prosecution. Her
only clear idea now is ' that fdie must get
back to America as soon as possible to pro
cure a divorce.
It seems that Agnes O'Halloran, the St.
Paul girl, who went to Paris to study art
w ith Georgo Hitchcock, and ended by elop
ing with him, had two strings to her bow.
Up to the time of the escapade she was,cor
respondiug with Frank O'Dongherty, a
iunior partner in a woolen tirm at Jo. 14
.Walker street, who thought her theqneen
of hearts, and who has auoweancr mguiio
make him very miserable. He had known
the young lady in St. Paul, was a guest in
her house, entertained the greatest respect
for her parents and sisters, and while sbo
was living in Forty-fifth street and attend
ing the Academy of Design in this cityhe.
was a regular visitor, and frequently es
corted her to church, ait receptions and
public places of amusement. So exalted
was her character in the estimation
of the young man that he refused
to beliove'her perfidious. She was too mod
est to even look at a married man, and too
innocent to wrong the wife and friend who
had received her into her home and treated.
her as a sister. It was a newspaper sensa-'
tion, and he would regard it as such until
positive proof to the contrary w as produced.
A cablegram received from the elder sis
ter, who had gone to Paris in April to bring
the art student home, confirmed the truth
of the scandal, and then the young mer
chant broke down completely.
. A young lady who was with Miss Agnes
two years ago when she boarded in Fort3
fifth street, pronounced her a romance-loving,
religions little woman, who never
should have been allowed away from hoin
without a guardian. She said:. "I
think . she was in love with the
3oung woolen merchant, and while ha
admired her very much, there was nt
definite understanding. Hitchcock was
the first man to make love to her. and she
didn't know enough about men or herself
to box his ears. She didn't understand the
first principles of coquetry, which, in this
naughty world of ours, is necessary to thu
success and safety of a girl who venture?
among the arts, bcienccs, foot-lights and
tvpe-writers as health and good clothes.
MissO'Hallorau is remaining in Pans at
her mother's direction, to forgive and com
fort the truant, aud bring her back to
America. It is hinted among her friends,
that should the infatuation wear otf. and
that's generallv tho turn such romances
take, Agnes will enter a convent and take
the veil. 1 tell vou. it s awfully hard for a
girl who isn't married ott and nettled down
at eighteen, to get on in this world; men are
so very tricky. Don't you think sol"
The lTe of the Interview. .
Minneapolis Tribune.
General Sherman declares that no gentle
man willingly submits to a newspaper in
terview, and naively adds that only pol
iticians da The General is severe. The
newspaper interview has its abuses, but it
also has its uses, and thousands of gentle
men daily add to the world's stockof kuowl
edge by cheerfully imparting their ideas to
the industrious interviewer. The inter
view, in one form or another, i the source
of almost all news, and without its aid
even the General himself would never have
become as famous aihoi.