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CBEISTIAN ECIE5CE.
Faith-cure and Christian science no
tions have made headway "but slowly in
Indianapolis. Tho new system of heal
ing originated in Boston and immediate
ly found innumerable advocates and fol
lowers in and about that region. Tho
fame of the "science" spread rapidly be
yond those narrow bounds, and waslong
tince received with approval in towns
far west of this. It is charged by some
enthusiastic supporters of the doctrine
-as a reason for thus tardiness of appre
ciation, that tho Indianapolis mind is
dull and not quickly receptive of new
ideas; but the fact that it early became
a popular fad in St. Louis proves that
meital brilliancy is not essential
to the votaries of the theory. Tho
existence of a "metaphysicianV or
'"healer's" office on every other corner in
Chicago does' 'not bear out the other as
sertion that great spirituality is a re
qusito in those who accept the philoso
phy. Opponents of tho science have en
deavored to maintain that the superior
g-ood sense and level-headedness of the
Indianapolis native prevented, and
would continuo to prevent, the spread of
falsa and foolish doctrine. Until re
cently these persons have had rather the
nl vantage in ArcrumenL but it must bo
confessed that late appearances aroeomc-
what -against them. Tho adoption of
the faith-cure theories has been slow,
but there is no denying that they have
-worked their insidious way Into "our
midst" and ate regarded with more
or less favor by many individuals among
what tho . Atlanta Constitution would
call our best families. Most of
these believers aro rather Bhame-faced
and show a disinclination ' to talk about
the matter, but others have the courage
of their convictions and boldly proclaim
their faith, and expatiate on the wonder
ful cures that have been effected by the
system in distant places. No marvelous
cures havo been heard of here, and a
number on whom tho science has been
practiced have died, but possibly the
conditions havo been unfavorable. Per
haps tho healers, like spiritual medi
ums, are affected by tho prevailing
skepticism. However that may be, "met
aphysicians" are with us and have
opened "studios,'' where, as announced
en neatly printed cards, "Christian met-
moral people who desiro an increase of
usefulness, happiness and health."
."Absent - treatment," whatever that
xnay mean, is also promised. This
is very enticing, becauso all we
jnoral people want an increase of
these powers and possessions. No
doubt these attractive invitations
will; draw to the studios a good
many people from that considerable
f class which has more faith in tho mys
terious than in the matter-of-fact, in
pow-wowing than in . pills, and, on the
whole, they will probably suffer no great
Jiarm, and much good will certainly re
sult to the pockets of tho healers. A
community must bo worked off some
how, and tho faith-cure is perhaps as
innocuous an outlet as another. Cer
tainly no harm will result if patrons will
resolve to call in a doctor who has an
office and not a studio, when serious ill
ness sets in.
THE PENALTIES OF FBEEDOM.
One of the most serious drawbacks
connected with American eminence is
the fact that tho noted being bent on
foreign travel, however much he may
crave and relish obscurity and ita at
tendant seclusion, can never, from tho
timo the intention is conceived in his
own breast, in the dead of night, enjoy
one moment of these incomparable lux
'uiies. Steps ho never so softly, tho
alert ear of a reporter catches the foot
fall and minutely describes its size,
height, direction and destination for his .
surprising journal. Sighs he never so
-lightly, even in mid-ocean, to the ap
parently nnreceptive and uncommuni
cative moon, and telegraphic-phono-ffttiphic
winds catch Iho murmur and
transmit its significance swiftly back
ward across the f cry waves that aro
s
ocarina tm
ocarina: him over: Timo has cone bv
when, as per poet?s suggestion,
man can '-rl-i tlm winds of tho
,avs aaw -
horning anY the Uarcan desert
jncrce, or IqJq himself where rolls
ibo Ore-on, aM hears no sound, savo
its own dashiiw The winds of the-r-crniac
tro t6 nimblo newspaper
: -3 cMc: cVaiutors tho Barcaa
desert his chosen beat, and the dashings
of tho Oregon havo been drowned out
by the rumble of the very printing
press its waters have been utilized to
move.
Ghooly Khan, of Persia, abode with
tho Nation for a brief season of delight,
until the observing newspaper eye re
vealed that the Shah ate peaches with
vinegar, plucked with his own fingers
from the dish, and dropped to slumber
after the repast without explanation or
apology. Numerous comments upon
these weird, royal, Persian idiosyncra
sies annoyed the Persian minister, and
he said mean things about American
breeding, and withdrew. All things
being equal, the whirligig of time brings
in revenge, and if the ex-minister is a
gentleman of sufficient literary discrimi
nation to take the American newspapers,
he may now chuckle with traditional
glee at the high-handed lawlessness with
which certain American citizens, now
abroad, and who have recently visited
England's Queen, are being handed round
the smiling circle of their observant coun
trymen. Tho Chicago sense of humor
'seems "to have been inordinately aroused
(by the event, and to havo issued solic
itous and explicit rules of conduct after
the fashion of the late A. Ward for the
proper guidance of its native contempo
raries about to take tea with royalty.
They were advised not to mention base
ball to? jho Queen strange the Chicago
mind should have overlooked the Batten
bergs in the family; not to ask her
Majesty questions, to feed the little
princes candy,: to request the Queen to
return the. visit, or to call her "colonel."
Hardly less amusing than these innocu
ous diversions of pork-packing journal
ism are the well-meant defensive state
ments from another quarter, assuring a
supposedly apprehensive public that
America's representatives suffered no
preliminary solicitude as to garb or con
duct before her Majesty, but acted Hvith
care and intelligence in preserving
the ' proprieties, and should there
fore be spared"' the silly gossip
and fanciful . and absurd fabrica
tions that have pursued them. The
glaring superfluousness of such pro
tective remarks must bo patent to all.
A good wine needs no bush, and a confi
dent country has no fears that its chosen
sons could do it discredit anywhere.
"Even should one of them so far forget
himself as to shake hands with a queen,
she would doubtless survive and the
government at Washington still live.
Nice customs havo .been said to courtesy
to great kings, and great kings could be
benefited and improved by occasionally
couitesying to nice customs. Neverther
less, as has been before said in these col
umns, the Americau smile must havo its
prey. Like love and death, it i3 no re
specter of persons, and, like them again,
must bo accepted with the solace of
philosophy. As tho American eagle,
the national sense of humor is free; it
soars impatient of restraint, and swoopa
at its own sweet will. When it clutches
at an uncovered head and wings aloft
with a tuft, of treasured locks in its
talons, the victim is wise who joins he
roically in the general merriment and
awaits hi.4 recompense in its next raid
upon the unsuspecting poll of his
neighbor.
medical" and howqioaiTsciekce.
In Monday's isuo the Journal stated
that the pretended, discovery of anew
elixir of life and rejuvenation of old age,
to which Dvh. lrownScquard and Ham
mond have given the sanction of their
names, is the most pretentious piece of
quackery ever promulgated, allied to
Yoodooisiii, an insult to the intelligence
of the age, and calculated to bring med
ical science into contempt. The Journal
is not at all surprised , to find its senti
ments indorsed bv scientific medical
men throughout the world. That Drs.
Pnrvin and Mears, formerly of this city,
should be among the first to denounce
it is only what would bo expected of
Indianapolis physician. of such eminence
as to be elected professors in the oldest
and most influential -medical school in
America. '
Modern medicine claims to be a science,
and as such depends upon the experi
mental method for its advancement.
The experimental method is the expres
sion ot the natural march of the mind in
the investigation of nature, and as such
proceeds by observation, hypothesis and
verification. The methods of research do
not differ whether the subject is biology
or physics. Medicine is but the practical
application of the principles of biology
to the prevention of disease and tho
restoration to health.
Ihit while mediciue is a biological sci
ence, it is diflicult to apply tho methods
of biological research in practice, be
causo of tho direct personality of the
subject. The physician cannot look
upon his patrons and patients as a farm
er regards his stock, or. as Muldoon re
garded Sullivan. Only receutly within
a half cent.iry has medicine released
itself in any degree from dogmatic per
sonal authority and thrust away hypo
thetical systems and doctrines. Tho re
cent claims of llrown-Sequard and his
elderly adherents show how easy it is to
rest satisfied with desire and intuition,
rather than to verify hypothesis by a
wide experience before proclaiming it as
a truth. There was no harm in the
therapeutical suggestion and experi
ment; it was the claim of an established
principle from a single experiment that
Is sieutincally at lault. Jt was never
considered, for example, that savages
eat the entire animal, and make their
blood from it, nor that transfusion of
blood is n common procedure in practice,
though no claims of rejuvenation are
based on these processes.
Of all deductions, those of biology
should bo made with greatest care. The
primal doctrine of modern biology that
man does not hold an isolated place in
nature; that his origin is not recent nor
ho the central figure in tho universe;
that he is not separated from his brute
allies In structure, function or intellect;
that tho differences, in short, aro those
of degr ee and not of kind is still hotly
cou tested in spite of its progress from
Leibnitz and Goethe to Wallace, Darwin
and Spencer. Th6 most recent outcome
of biology applied to medicine is "the
germ theory of disease, but its most san
guine and enthusiastic teachers havo
made no such shipwreck of themselves
ns to teach that a fluid teeming with the
primordial germs of animal vitality, in-.
troduced into tho system, will restore
youth and defeat tho aims of nature, in
whoso far-reaching schemo decay and
death are as essential parts as growth
and birth themselves.
Tho only parallel in biology to
this latest fad in medicine is a century
old, and is known as Buffon's theory of
organic molecules, of which Hume said
its author "gave to things no human eye
had seen a probability almost equiv
alent to proof." BuflWs theory of or
ganic molecules and Bonnet's theory of
tho "inclusion of germs" dominated
biological discussion for a quarter of a
century. These were great authors and
great naturalists, far ahead of their
time, but as liable to error as the great
jurist, Matthew Hale, who believed in
witches. The great physiologist, Dal
ton, gave an exposition of both of these
theories in the Cartwright lectures for
1882, beforo the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of New York. There is
much in common between the senile
vagaries of Sequardand tho notions of
Bufl'on. Allowance, however, should be
made in judgment for a century of prog
ress in biology that lies between Buffon
and Brown-Sequard.
THE AMERICAN PHILISTINE ON PAPER.
The quality of Philistinism doubtless
existed long before Mr. Matthew Arnold
seemingly discovered and began preach
ing against it, but we havo had in Amer
ica no great anti-Philistine to take up
the cudgels against culture's anarchists,
and .have, therefore, depended largely
upon echoes of Mr. Arnold's work to hit
off the home product. Indeed, Phil
istinism is a thing not limited to any lo
cality, but is sufficiently wide-sweeping
to reach from Boston Back Bay to the
limits of the arid plains, so sermons
against its insidious workings are not
weakened by importations. The sharp
paragrapher and the comic-paper funny
man do not take seriously to efforts of
any kind for the eradication of Philis
tinism, culture being regarded as some
thing of a joko at best.
Now, American fiction has lately
taken a turn in the direction of a rebuke
of Philistinism, which may be defined
for America ns a disregard of worthy
things of life, such as the fine arts in
the various forms of their expression.
We may take Mr. Howells as an instance.
While he may be, and is, much of a
Philistine himself, he understands and
fully appreciates the traits of his kind,
and, better than anybody since the
author of "Vanity Fair," can put tho
Philistine peculiarities on paper.
In "Silas Lapham" he drew a
picture of that thrifty dealer in
mineral paint which must carry a lesson
not to be mistaken. Colonel Lapham
was clearly a type of tho progressive
American, with his rapid flight from the
bottom to the top of tho ladder, his piti
able educational failings and social boor
ishuess. This typo has its duplicates in
every city of the country; in the pork
packers of Chicago and the gold goblins
of California. In Indiana ho would bo
ft manufacturer of hand-made school
books for the promotion of ignorance in
our Commonwealth.
Being himself a Philistine, Mr. IIow-
clls is able to produce, better than any
of his contemporaries in fiction-making,
the bull in the china shop of culture.
Yet he is ably backed in his labors by
Messrs. Henry James, Edgar Fawcett,
Itobert Grant and S. J. Stimson. Mr.
Stimson does very fine Philstines, and
after putting them on paper takes them
'cross country on coaching journeys and
makes them enjoy life after a fashion.
Like "Peter Bell," o Wordsworth's
creation, they trample under foot the
primrose and never know that they have
stepped on it.
But there could be no better method
of getting rid of the Philistine than by
this plan of making him up into stories.
When he sees himself caricatured he
will likely turn aside from tho stock
"ticker" to see that his children are going
to school, and even though he profit him
self not at all, the elements of "sweet
ness and light" may find way into his de
scendants. One thing that is strong in
the American is pride, and pride of any
altitude cannot withstand caricature.
Mr. Eugene Field, who has satirized
Chicagoans to the limit, once said, when
asked if he was not afraid of hurting
the feelings of his readers, that "they
all thought it was the other fellow."
This is doubtful. Tho "Silas Laphams"
and "Bartley Hubbards" of American
literature are in themselves remon
strances against their own narrowness,
and would like to have better personal
reflections mirrored. When American
business and professional men get a
chance to breathe amid all the hurly-
burly of tho period, they will get as far
as possible from the golden shrine at
which they are worshiping, and will
wonder how they ever overlooked tho
really worthy things of life which sud
denly dawn upon them.
The rimaaeipma meager prints some
figures relative to the cost of tho Centen
nial Exhibition in that city, which are of
interest to towns which think of bidding
for tho world's fair in 1892. First of all, it
says, the individual people of Philadelphia,
with aid from individuals throughont
Pennsylvania, subscribed $1,749,468. That
inspired subscriptions from other States.
which carried the aggregate of such sub
scriptions up to S2,277,lM0-of which
came from New York State, $100,574 from
New Jersey, $S9;274 from the six New Eng
land States, $14,044 from the Pacific slopo.
and $53,4GS from all the rest of the country.
In addition to this the city of Philadelphia
as a corporation appropriated $1,000,000
and tho Legislature of Pennsylvania $1,500,.
000," the general government $500,000 for its
own buildings and exhibits, and several
States about $400,000 in all for the same
purpose. The subscriptions and appropria
tions foot up over $0,000,000, and the actual
cost of the exhibition exceeded that sum.
They come high but we must have them.
Senator Platt, of Connecticut, is said
tq bo very much interested in his scheme of
promoting colonization movement from
Iceland to Alaska. One would think Ice
land must be a very tine country to emi
grate from if Alaska oners superior attrac
tions, but probably it does. The idea is saia
to bo ultimately to take over to Alaska the
entiro population of Iceland, which is really
very thrifty, sturdy and intelligent There
are in Iceland about seventy-five thousand
souls. The area of cultivable land is year
ly growing less, owing to tho increase of
volcanic matter scattered over the plains
and valleys. The people are said to be anx
ious to remove to some cold country where
the soil and other advantages are superior
to those to be found in their present pos
session. On the Yukon river they will find
these. W ood is abundant and cereals can
be raised, as tho summers are longer than
those in Iceland. An Icelandic minister is
operating with Senator Platt in the under
taking. '
Discussing the trial and verdict in the.
Maybrick case the London Chemist and
Druggist has this to say about the deceased
husband.
Fromthebecrinnlncof his Illness the medical
attendants have been hitting at symptoms, chang
ing medlcanU almost daily, so that in the course
of his thirteen days illness the poor man had
gone through the following appaling list of rem
edies: Morphia, suppopitoricfl, ipecacuanha,
wine of pepsin and Iridin nolution, cuc;ira.
Ragrada, nitro-hydrochloric acid, tincture of nux
vomica, f owler's solution. I'lummer s pm. dilute
hydrocyanic acid, tincture of henbane, broiuMo
of iotasfcium, autiphrin, tincture of Jaborandi,
bismuth, ftulnhonal, cocaine, nltro-glyeerine,
dilute phoxpLorio acid, solution of "chlorine,
Mnitas, glycerine and Condy's fluid as mouth
Waynes.
In view of that list of "remedies." what
was the use of an added poison? And what
was a chemical analysis worth of a stomach
which had .been turned into a chemical
sewer.
Uxcle Bill Webster, who was Daniel
Webster's favorite coachman, died recently
in the Soldiers' Home in Maine. lie was
quite a character, and toldsomo interesting
stories of his life with the great statesman
in 1S44 and 1846. He used to take care of
Webster's horses and go gunning and fish
ing with him. He said Webster was a thor
ough fisherman, and would tramp all day
whipping the streams about his home.
Uncle Bill told with pride of having a
drink with Webster, standing with him at
tho bar. He said Webster never knew tho
value of money, and M as just as likely to
start for Washington without a cent in his
pocket as not. Perhaps that was after the
great statesman had taken one too many
drinks. '
There is such a thing as being too law-
abiding. Near Rondout, N. Y., a few days
ago, a woman discovered a man hanging
by a ropo from the limb of a tree near the
roadside. She saw his fingers, and legs
twitching, and, frightened at the sight, ran
and called some men employed near by.
On their arrival life was not extinct, but
they refused to cut the rope under the sup
position that they had no right to, and that
the coroner should be summoned. As a
consequence, the suicide accomplished his
purpose. If they had cut the man down
the coroner might have lost his fees, but
would hardly have prosecuted them.
Mrs. Ida A. Harper has been made asso
ciate editor of the Terre Haute News, the
independent daily recently started in that
city, and Mrs. Emma Carleton, formerly of
this city, has taken a similar position on
the new daily. Truth Teller, of New Al
bany. Both these ladies are known
through their contributions to the Journal
as versatile and accomplished writers, and
each is admirably fitted by practical ex
perience and by special qualifications for
tho exacting duties of daily newspaper
life. The News and the Truth Teller are to
be congratulated on having secured the
services of bucb competent workers.
Mark Twain's description of his court
ship is funny, but one cannot resist a sus
picion that it is not true. Ho says he was
taking an early breakfast in a small West
em hotel, and being waited ou by a tall,
raw-boned, freckled-faced and red-headed
woman, when it somehow occurred to hira
to ask her if she had a husband. She an
swered, "No."
"Why not?" said Mark.
"Uecause no man ever asked me."
Then camo Mark's characteristic proposal:
"Say! Don't shoot! How would I do?"
A recent, jroport of, Lincoln Park, Chi
cago, snows tnat it contains about
acreu. This includes thirty-one acres of
boulevards and also the area now under
process of reclamation from the lake. Up
to April. 1SS9. the park had cost $4,411,100,
including cost of land, improvements, po
licing, salaries, etc. With its numerous at
tractions of nature and art, its fifteen
miles of drives and walks, its statuary,
zoological garden, . lakes andreen-houses,
Lincoln Park is already rich in attractions,
and will become more so every year.
So far as books and papers are concerned
it matters little what is put in the corner
stone of the soldiers' monument. In fifty
years they will all be illegible, if not entire
ly decayed. Besides, how is posterity to
know, or why should it care, what is placed
there? Tho stone itself riiay not be moved
for centuries, and long before its contents
aro rovealed all papers, books and docu
ments will have crumbled into dust. This
is the prosaic view of tho case, but, of
course, there is a sentiment which should
be regarded.
An American gentleman temporarily
abroad, writes:
The railways between Liverpool and London
are making special elforts to secure American
traffic, and they run vestibule trains of Pullman
cars upon the arrival of the largo Atlantic
steamers. The mghest rate la charged, . and H Is
noticed that the newly arrived American insists
upon traveling first-clans, though he often thinks
himself lucky to be able to travel third-class
when oing home. The Liverpool railways make
a gTcat boast of their baraLre-cbeckinc eytdem,
which they advertise as"theAniencanplan," but
it is nothing more than cxpre.sae from the dock
to the London destination, for vrhtch 50 cents
per package is charged. The real American
checking system is still unknown in England.
Howells, tho anthor, says he made more
money out of his patented scrap-book,
which had nothing at all in it. than he has
out of all his alleged literary works. That,
however, should not encourage authors to
publish books with nothing in them.
With favorable weather there will be a
great crowd here on the 22d, and citizens
should unite- in giving the visitors a rous
ing welcome. We are too much in the habit
of inviting crowds here and doing nothing
to make them feel they are welcome.
Ir the matter is left to Sam Jones, St,
Louis will not get tho world's fair. That
eminent evangelist doesn't like the place
and is quoted as saying that the difference
between St. Louis and hell 13 that St.
Louis has a river alongside of it.
The Associated Press dispatch mentions
ten persons who rode in tho backboard with
the President from Bar Harbor to Otter's
Nest. What kind of buckboards do they
have up in that country, anyhow!
Owing to the failure of the natural-gas
companies to comply with the ordinance
the entire length of Illinois street has to be
repaired, and next winter it will be almost
impassable.
There is no reason why any lone, lorn
man should be poor and despised any
longer. Just let him get a pistol and rob a
train, and he will gain famo and fortune.
The President will certainly be here on
the 23d unless one of the government wheels
comes oil' or a linch-pin breaks.
Chicago is evidently going to make a
determined eflort to secure the world's fair
in 1692. and whtn that city does make a de
termined effort it is very apt to win. If
the fair comes west of New York, Chicago
is tho place for it. and New Yoik will have
to work hard to keep it from coming West.
The mammoth scaffold in the Circle af
fords a splendid frame work for an elaborate
piece of decoration on the 22d. It might be
made very beautiful and impressive.
If you are getting up a new flag there
will be no impropriety in putting on forty
two stars. The four new States will all be
in before frosty ,
Lay in your decorations for the 22d early,
and don't take the chances of an exhausted
supply.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are march
ing, and will be hero on tho 22d, sure.
To Uie Editor ot the Indianapolis Journal:
Which is the feminine gender, Ore or Oral
Newi-ort, Ind. KEJLDKR.
"Ora" is feminine; we know of no such
proper name as "Ore."
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.
In ancient times the male element in Now
England either combed its hair back with
no parting or parted it iu the middle.
Dr. Jennie McCowen, of Davenport, la..
has been elected a 'fellow" of the Society
of Science, Letters and Art of London.
Charles Sumner once said of Clara
Barton: "She has the talent of a statesman,
the command of a general, and tho heart
and hand of a woman."
The city of Paris will shortly offer a ban
quet to the mayors of the SG.000 communes
of France. No less than 1G,U00 guests, no
more than 25,000, are expected. .
Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, remains
in good health. His recovery, in Europe,
from a severe attack of liver trouble, was
remarkable. He is now very careful in his
habits, and looks forward to ten years more
of life.
Kino Humbert has a phonograph into
which he talks when he is absent from the
Queen. A special messenger carries it to
the Quoen, and returns it with what she
has to say. Naturally, the special messen
ger is sworn to contideuce.
English society is making an attempt to
introduce a new dance, on this plan: Four
paces are made as though a march were in
tended, and then each gentleman embraces
his lady and waltzes with her lor four bars,
then resuming pacing. Kepeat.
Mr. Gladstone defines his domestic pol
icy as follows: "Whenever my wife insists
I submit; whenever I insist she submits.
We never discuss family affairs at the table,
and if anything unpleasant occurs during
the evening we never refer to it till next
day."
King Leopold, of Belgium, is not only
the sworn enemy of tobacco, but he is a
vegotarian, dislikes music, and is the em
bodiment of other eccentricities. One of
these is an aversion to wearing his hat in
the open air, as he believes the action of
the wind on his head is beneficial.
Mr. L. Z. Leiter, of Washington, has
made an offer of -510,000 for the Gardner
Brewer estate, at the lower end of Bellovue
avenue, Newport. The estate, which con
tains thirteen acres, has a water front, but
the house has been built many years. The
offer is by all odds the biggest ever made
for a Newport cottage."
Sir Edward Watkin proposes, if ever
ho gets his channel tunnel cut through
and that's a big, big if to run trains direct
from London to Gibraltar, transfer cars by
boat to 1 angler, and thence along the north
coast of Africa, through Egypt, down the
Persian gulf to Kurrachee, and 60 on to
Calcutta, without change of oars.
There is in England an orgauization
called the League of tho Thimble, whose
badge is a pair of tiny silver scissors, a
thimble, and a threaded needle. It is a so
ciety of gentlewomen who make it their
object to help poor needle-women to get
work. The Princess of Walts and also the
Princess Christian are greatly interested in
the society.
The latest portrait of Mr. Gladstone, by
Millais, shows the statesman's great age
clearly. The eyes, although lustrous as of
old, have a dreamy, far-away look; the
lines of four score years have overrun the
face; tho mouth is sunken; the attitude is
that of one tailing last. Mr. Gladstone
looks so only when he is much fatigued;
perhaps sitting for this portrait creatlv
fatigued him.
Pasteur, in reply to the overly tender
hearted who complain of vivisection by
him, reminds them that every animal used
is put under chloroform before the slight
est operation is performed on it, and to as
sure them that he is not cruel, writes: "The
suffering of an animal affects me so much
that I would never t hoot a bird, and the
cry of a wounded skylark pierces me to the
heart."
The New York Times says Jefferson Da
vis, having become dissatisfied with hs
profits upon his book, "TheKise and Fall of
the Southern Confederacy," has had a dis
pute with the publishers of the work,
Messrs. D. Appleton & Co.. as to the amount
due him. The firm has made a proposition
to refer the question to arbitrators, and
Mr. Davis has accepted this offer. The pub
lishers say that the sale of the book is con
fined almost exclusively to the South. s
Commodore Elbridge T. Gerry has a
bad reputation among stenographers. The
other day, when ho testified in the Kemm
ler reference case, the official stenog
rapher got closo to him so as to catch his
words with tho least possible difficulty. He
began talking slowly, but when Mr. Cock
ran got at hiru and the yachtsman-lawyer-philanthropist
became warmed up in the
defense of the electrical execution law, he
rattled olt his sentences at an amazing rate.
A count showed that he spoke at stretches
at the rate of over three hundred words a
minute.
The most extravagant instance of literary-relic
worship on record is said to be
that of an Englishman of letters, who
wears constantly round his neck a portion
of Shelley's chaired skull. It is inclosed in
a little gold casket. The bones of Victor
Hugo are being turned into money, for
among the relics exhibited to sitrht-seers at
his former home is a huge tooth, with this
inscription below: "Tooth drawn from Vic
tor Hugo by the dentist, on Wednesdav, 11th
August, 1871. at Vianden, in the gardens of
the house of Madame Koch, at 3 o'clock in
the afternoon."
It seems to be pretty generally believed
in theatrical circles that the superb health
which formerly distinguished Mrs. Lang
try has given way of late under the heavy
strain of traveling through the country.
Like Kosina Yokes and Mary Anderson,
she has found the wear and tear of travel
ing through the provinces too much even
for her robust constitution. It is said by
theatrical men that the only actresses who
can stand the really heavy and enervating
work of theatrical tours through the West
are women of the thin and wir' kind, such
as Modjeska and Mrs. Potter. There is no
doubt that the work is very exacting on
constitutions that are not made of steel
wires.
Grant used to chop cordwood in a pecul
iar way, says Judge Lanham in the St
Louis Kepnblic, cutting the tree all round
instead of half-down on one side and then
on the other, like the ordinary axman.
While President he visited St. Louis, and I
went with him to his farm, and passiug the
spot where he once chopped wood 1 said:
"General, the fellow who cut those stumps
was a poor woodchopper. don't you think
sof" The President replied with a sigh:
"That might bo true, Judge: but. to
tell the truth, I was happier then than
now. I cut my wood, hanled it to the city,
got my price for it, returned to my family,
and was happy; but now the burden of a
Nation is on me, and I know no rest. Those
were happy days, J udge."
Francois Millet, the eldest son of the
great Millet, and himself a painter, tells
this story of the famous "Angelas." "It
was thi rty-f our years ago. My father had
not succeeded in selling the picture. He
could hardly show it to any one. Nobody
wanted it. One day, however, an American
amateur made an offer, which my father ao-
cepted, only too happy at the prospect of
receiving some money-; but on tho next day
he received a letter from this gentleman
telling him that, having reflected, he wunld
not buy the picture, as it was too small for
the price. At last my father sold it for 1,KX)
francs." The money paid at one time and
another for the painting shows how it has
grown valuable with age. It was sold first
by Millet to Alfred rVydeau for fcW. bv
1 eydeau in 1S70 for $G. and was bought
not long afterward by Van Tract for $1,030.
He tired of it because every visitor stopped
before "The Angelns" and murmured. "You
can actually hear the bell." This in time
so irritated tho owner that he exchauged it
with John W. Wilson for another work by
Millet. It was of Wilson that Secretan
bought "The Angelas" for $U.0u. and now
the last price it fetched was $110,000.
THE SEW COMMISSIONER OF EMJCAT10J.
His Special Relations to Indiana Teachers A.
Practical Man, Not a Theorist.
Probably no appoitment made by Presi
dent Harrison has given more satisfaction
than that of Mr. Harris, as Commissioner
of Education. While credited to Massa
chunctts, Mr. Harris is really a Western
man, though it is trilling to hold so cosmo
politan a character to any one locality.
Mr. Harris is of Puritan descent. Ho was
educated at the Andover Preparatory
School and' Yale College. Disheartened
with the trivialities of college life, which
he had essentially outgrown, he went to St.
Louis in 1857, and progressed to the position
of city superintendent in 1SC7.
As an educator he became known through
his annual reports, without which no edu
cational library is regarded complete, and
the Journal of Speculative Philosophy,
which he has edited for twenty-two years.
The latter is the only journal of the kind
in the English, language. Extensive ex
tracts from the St. Louis reports havo been
published in England. Germany r.ud France.
After over ten years iu the . superinteud
ency, Professor Harris resigned and went
to Europe to prosecute further bis philo
sophical researches. Tho ovation tendered
him by the citizens upon his departure has
never been paralleled for the love and re
spect shown a public educator. Besides a
popular meeting and testimonials from ed
ucational, literary and philosophical so
cieties, it took the substantial form of a
gold medal and a thousand dollars in
money.
For the last ten years Mr. Harris hasbeen
1 a resident of Concord, Mass., occupying the
Bronson Alcott house. While in Concord
he naturally took a part in tho "Concord
Movement," inaugurated by Alcott, Prcs
cott and others, and culminating in thef
Summer School of Philosophy. This,
though misunderstood and made the butt
of ridicule by the press, was really a stand
in opposition to a too materialistic philoso
phy. Its work was mainly ethical and ed
ucative, and when it accomplished the pur
pose of its existence, it vanished with as
little ceremony as it appeared.
Aside' from numerous translations and
critiques on speculative philosophy tho
field in which Mr. Harris is best known
abroad numerous texts and essays on
education have appeared from his pen.
Notable among these are comments ac
companying his translation of ltosencranz,
the most profound work on education issued
m modern times, and much used as a text
in higher ed a rational circles. Mr. Harris's
name stands first of tho editors of the Ap
pleton system of school readers, a series
which snowshis masterly hand through
out the entire series.
While philosopher and educator, his
diversion seems to be among the poets,
particularly Gcrthe, Dante 'and Shake
speare. Probablv no profoupder analyses
of Faust and the Divino Comedy have been
presented to American audiences than
those of Mr. Harris. A commentary on
Danto will soon be issued from his pen,
comprising an entire number of the Journal
of Speculative Philosophy. Ho has also
given a course of lectures upon the Italian
painters in the Chautauqua course,.
also on architecture and music,
and even as occult subjects as Indian
philosophy and esoteric Buddhism. The
vagaries of the latter, as they have ap
peared in England and New Englaud, he
has publicly discussed, tossintr lightly aside
the thin garb of deceit and vanity in which
charlatans and adventurers have attempt
ed to dissnise the essential spirit of the
south Asiatic religions.
But the great work of Mr. Harris has.
after all, been educational an educator of
educators. At the Sau Francisco meeting
he carried the honors, and the daily in
quiry was for the departments in which
Mr. Harris was to speak, and these were al
ways crowded, though he covered the en
tire held, from the kindergarten to tho uni
versity curriculum. Though not a college
graduate himself, he has blazed the lino
for the colleges to follow. When Yale gave
him the degree of doctor of laws, the re
mark of the president that it was an honor
to the college rather than to tho man, re
ceived the assent of aU who knew the re
cipient. Mr. Harris's renown as tho American
translator and exponent of tho Hegelian
system of philosophy, and particularly his
residence in Concord, the home of trascend
entalism, and consequent association with
the Summer School of Philosophy has en
gendered the idea that ho is a mere theor
ist and not a man of affairs. On the con
trary, he is one of the most practical of
menlike Mr. Emerson he has a Yankee ca
pacity for ailairs. While seeing education
through the eyes of a psychologist no one
has excelled Lim in 'nutting theory into
practice. This he did at St. Louis, and
this he will do for rtio Nation.
Statistics aro by him turned into poctrv,
as is illustrated in his essay on "The Right
of Property and the Ownership of Land,"
read before the National Social Science As
sociation at Saratoga, September, 1HM1.
This essay amounts to a very kind, but
complete and logical analysis and refuta
tion of Henry George's (and also Herbert
Spencer's) theory that private property in
land is wrong. The essay is backed up by
an exhaustive study of the census reports
of all mot era nations.
A word may be said here in regard to Mr.
Harris's connection with Indiana, and es
pecially with Indianapolis. For fifteen
years Mr. Harris has been a personal power
in educational movements in this State.
This was brought about through his friend
ship with those educational transcendent
alists. George Brown, Mr. Shortridgo and
Superintendent Jones, of tho State Normal
School, and Lewis Jones.' of this city, who
induced him to give a series of talks and
studies in Terre Haute and Indianapolis,
before those few teachers whose mental
tendencies lay along the lines indicated in
the Journal of Speculative Philosophy.
Thus was the pollen of this fertilizing
genius spread about; it has resulted in
first theoretical, and then, of course, iu
practical good. Formal courses of lectures
have been given by Mr." Harris to the teach
ers of Indianapolis, of Terro Hauto and to
the students of tho State Universitv. Par
lor lectures in this city, to invited circles,
have been given on "Faust," "Wilbelm
Meister." the "Divine Comedy." "Mic hael
Angelo," Kaphael." "Esoteric Buddhism,"
"Art," "Architecture" and "Music."
All these varied topics have been
set forth with sympathy and power. Mr.
Harris speaks in these parlor lectures from
brief notes in a hesitating way. and con
tinues till a late hour, when questions and
discussions are in order.
He is now in Europe for two or three
mouths, where attention will be given to
the educational features of the Paris expo
sition. He will then doubtless fonuulato
his observations in a report, and will com
mence tho active duticsof his new position,
the most important iu many ; respects that
fall to the lot of an3 bureau in the Depart
ment of the Interior. His management of
this great trust will be kindly witched by
over fifty thousand teachers in this land.
wnu aireauy a-tuuui.o in uini not only a
friend, buttu acknowledged leadenn edu
cation iu the United States. a. w. b.
Not a Slur.
Boston Transcript
People who think that it is a slur on Pres
ident Harrison to speak of him as the grand
son of his grandfather forget that it is
pointless, unless it be an otlenseto be asuc-
cesstui general ana subseqnentlv President
of the United States. As the great-grandson
of his great-grandfather President Har
rison inherits the responsibility of his an
cestor's action in signing the Declaration of
Independence.
HAWAIIAN INSURRECTION
Fuller Particulars of the Futile Attempt
to Overthrow Kalakaua's Government
The Rebellion Was Planned and Led by Twa
Students, Educated at Government Expense
Several Rebels Killed and Wounded.
Sax Francisco, Aug. 10. The steamer
Alameda, that arrived last evening from
Australia, brings news of the daring al
though futile insurrection that broke out
in Honolulu, Tuesday, Jnly SO. Two half
breed Hawaiians, namedlfobert W. Wilcor
and Kobert Boyd, who had been sent at
government expense to bo educated
at an Italian military school, had
been plotting insurrection for soma
time.but-rumors that were current were lit
tle heeded until the movement culminated
in an armed band of about 130 natives
marching from Palama to Honolulu, two
miles, and securing an entrance to tho
palace grounds in Honolulu. All was quiefe
during the night, although iu most of tho
native houses lights were seen burning at
midnight. About 1 a. m. an unusual num
ber of natives and Chinamen were seen ou
the streets, as if something verv uncommon
was about to happen, but whiio pcoplo
went to bed as usual, the rebel rioters
formed at Palama, and abont 3 a. m. Tues
day, marched from that subuib to the citv.
arriving at the Mauka gate of the palace aV
4 a. M. They knocked at this gate aud de
manded admittance. When, after como
parleying, they entered the grounds unop-,
posed, tho Palama rioters were joined bv
other squads from the street and other
localities, and at onetime the rebels upon,
.the palace grounds must havo numbered
about 2T0.
The King was absent from the palace at
the timo tho alarm was given. He was tel
ephoned for. The royal party then hasten- '
ed to the King's boat, where they remained
during the day, guarded by a dozen of tbo
household troops. Meanwhile the rebeU
summoned Lieutenant Parker to surrender,
the palace, but that officer refused to sur-f
render. The general alarm was spread.
throughout the city by moans of the telo-j
phone, and the Honolulu Bides were imiue-
diately ordered to report at their armories..
There was a great deal of excitement, es'
pecially among the Portuguese and Chinese.
A number of families lied to the top of tho
hill, and a few Indies took refngo in tho
American legatiou. where a corps of ma
rines from the United States steameff
Adams was stationed. A cabinet council
was held, and with the three ministers'
present were convened the Americau. Brit-1,
ish, French k and Portuguese commis--'
si oners, and aiso Captain Woodward,
of the United States steamer Adams. 1
The Cabinet decided to demand the
surrender of Wilcox. S. M. Damon was
appointed to carry out the demand,
but his mission proved to bo unsuccessful.
Several shots had now been exchanged ou "
both sides. By H A. M. the rioters had all
taken shelter in a house termed the Bunga
low, situated in thepalace grounds.whije tha
Honolulu Itirles had secured a position of
vantage within range. Shells were tired
from both sides at intervals. Finally acorps
of government volunteers began hurling;
giant-powder bombs at the Bungalow.
About this time thirty or more rioters sur
rendered, one of whom had been fatally
shot. Early in the skirmish, JJobert Boyd,
chief lieutenant of Wilcox, was severely
wounded in two places. It is stated thai
Wilcox shot two of his men who wer
about to desert. While this bombardment
against the Bungalow lasted, sharpshooters
from the opera-house kept up a Rteady and
furious fusillade, until, liualfy, after hours
of bombardment, ths rioters rushed from
the building waving a white sheet upon a,
pole, and shouting 'Perce;' "Surrender."
The gates wcro thrown open and a forco
of volunteers entered and took thewhola
of the rioters prisoners. Among those op
posed to the rioters the onty serious casual
ty was a wound in the shoulder, received
by Lieut. Parker. On the side of the rioteis
there were seven natives killed and twelva
wounded, several seriously; An armed pa
trol was organized to watch the city dun nff
the tight and afterwards was composed of
Honolulu Hides, bluejackets and tnarinca
from the United States steamer Adams and
citizen volunteers as special constables, be
sides the whole police force.
There were plans of a programme eaid to
have been formed by ilcox in the rash
riot that he made. One report was to tha
erlect that he intended to secure the person
of King Kalakaua, compel him to abdicate
in favor of his sister Liliuokalatii. heir ap
parent, and demand a new constitution and
a new Cabinet. Honolulu papers state this
was probably the plan pro potel either in
whole or in a modilied form, but matters
were kept so very secret that the exact rea
sons are yet unknown. The opera-bouse,
palaces, government buildings und many
private dwellings wcro more or less dam ,
aged by bombs.
KaJakua DUpleated.
8an Fkaxcisco. Aug. 10. The following let
ter. signed by a member of King Kalakua's.'
household, has been received from Honolulu;
"II. W. Severance, Esq., arrived la Honolulu
by steamer Australia, to axsume the office of
Lnlted States consul-general. His M;JcAty Kal
akua declined to give Interview. His Majesty
alw) refused to accept him as consul-general. soil
only yielded to his Ministers under protect, say
ing that the responsibility must he with them.
The reason given by his Majesty for his action is
that Mr. Severance was diruiMed from office as
Hawaiian consul in tan Francisco for came.
Ills Majesty feels that Mr. Severance's appoint
ment marks a lack of courtesy cn the part of tho
United btates."
Notwithstanding this letter, Mr. Severanoo hat,
been duly recognized as Puited t-'tatcs consul-
freueral. and an oflicial notice to that effect ap
pears in a Honolulu newspaper.
Faithful Officers In the Civil War.
Prof. Staler, in North American Review.
The surprising part of our civil war per
haps the most surprising feature in that
marvelous contest was that from the be
ginning to tho endthere isno case in which
an officer of any grade is known to havo
gone over to the enemy. Desertions of
private soldiers from one side to the other
were relatively rare. There wero occa
sional cases in which men forced into tho
army on either side took the first chanco
which otiercd to range themselves in tin
army to which. their principles attracted'
them. I have been unable to lind a case in
which such action was ever taken by nay
military unit a company, regiment cr
larger corps. Although, under the sting of
deleat, a number cf our officers of the fed
eral army were accused of half-heartedness
or treachery, the sober verdict of history
has always been in their favor. It was th
most satisfactory feature of onr civil war
that in the worst mischances of lost battles
and unsuccessful campaigns the men never
lost their confidence in the moral integrity
of their chiefs. Although in the curious
freedom of speech which charaeterized our
armies the men frequently condemned their
leaders as fools, thev never seemed to ques
tion the trustworthiness of their motives.
Strength of the Ocrruan Army.
Karl Blinl, In North American lie view.
By the new law, owing to the recent
threatening aspect of the European situa
tion in the East and West, the standing
arm" of Germany has been brought opto
upward of !ooa) men-or MO.ttxi. if tha
men on leave, liable to immediate recall,
are added. In case of war. this body caa
be brought up, bv calling in the first re
serves, t upward of l.u10.000-ineu. For
operative purposes a further addition of
upward ot 1.310.UO men may be made
through the Landwehr. If the supple
mentary reserve is put on its leus. this
would give a further force of l,4v,0tt.
Total, in round numbers. lSUO.UX) men.
But if tho L.amUtriim also were called
out, nearly Ghmmi men would 1m under
arm! The prospect is a saddeniug one.
At (Jermanv eastern tlauk. however.
Btissia professes to be able to raise ar
army of 10.oo0.o00 men. On Germany's
western tlank, France may call out moro
than 4.000.0UO. Ueing between two powers
of historically aggressive character, Ger
many cannot disarm before the others
do, though the heaviness of the armor
presses on her most weightily. It is for
her a Question of national existence or ex
tinction. Cool "Fad" for Hot Weather.
San Francisco Chroulclet.
The off season in Washington seems ex
tremely favorable to the growth aud devel
opment of fads and notioun, and among tho
latest schemes is one for the transplautiui;
of the entire population of Iceland. 6o:no
75,000 in number, to the most hospitable
portion of Alaska, .