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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, v AUGUST 19, 1889.
THE DAILY JOURNAL
MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1880.
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House.
Ciucle street, which just now should
be the cleanest 6trect in tho city, is tho
dirtiest. The stroet commissioner
should give it immediate attention.
The order excluding vehicles from
Circle street on Thursday is a good one.
Assuming that it will include the sacred
express wagons, which have made the
Circle a rendezvous for a long time, wo
suggest that this is a good time to clean
the gutters, which are in a horrible con
dition at present.
New Hampshire is a small State, ter
ritorially, but it docs not follow that the
President faced a small audience when
he addressed her Legislature. Her Sen
ate consists of only twelve members,
but the lower House has about 850.
They are great believers in representa
tive government in New England.
The law Eeems to bo looking up in
the South. Of tho regulators recently
arrested at Lafayette, La., three 'have
been admitted to bail and fourteen com
mitted without bail. The decision of
the judge is said to have been a surprise
to the defendants and their friends.
Very likely; but such surprises are much
needed at times.
Thomas Jefferson is a safe subject
for Senator Voorhees to lecture upon.
He can talk up and down and all around
that eminent statesman's career, and
never touch upon an act or a sentiment
that would remind himself or his hearers
of tho Knights of the Golden Circle.
Thomas never was a member of a dis
loyal organization.
The Mugwump brethren are much
concerned because tho Republicans of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Iowa have said
nothing in their State conventions this
year about civil-service reform. Dear
friends, do not be unreasonable. To
pass resolutions in favor of a reform es
tablished by a former Republican ad
ministration, and put in good order by
this, would be foolish. Republicans are
progressive, and when one reform is ac
complished they go on to another.
TnE postal-card contract just awarded
will run four years, and result in a sav
ing of about $40,000 a year over present
contract prices. It calls for postal cards
of three specified sizes and weights, and
the estimated number to bo required
during the four years of the contract
term is 2,000,000,000. These will cost the
government about $800,000, and it will
get for them $20,000,000. This looks like
a big profit, but it includes tho trans
portation, safe handling and delivery of
these cards all over the continent.
"White Cap" raids aro infrequent
down in Pennsylvania, but even there
outrages upon tho public are sometimes
committed that call for a swift dis
cipline to the perpetrators. A store
keeper in Lehigh county lately found
the following placard on his door: "If
you sell any more bad watermelons here
you must leave the place in ten days."
There are some things every self-re-
specting community ought to defend
itself against, law or no law, and bad
watermelons is one.
The police should try and do some
thing towards handling and controlling
the crowd on Thursday. This does not
imply that there is likely to be any dis
turbance or necessity for the use of
force, for the average Hoosier crowd is
not ill-natured or disorderly. 'But all
crowds need some controlling, especially
when a procession has tho right of way
and tho roadway has to bo kept clear.
This may require tho exercise of some
authority, though not of force. The
average American is quick to recognize
tnd obey a representative of the law.
and a little authority on such occasions,
exercised quietly but firmly, goes a long
way.
WriEN General Lewis was appointed
postmaster at Atlanta tho Constitution
said, June 20, 1$9:
General Lewis is a gentleman of intelli
gence and character, ami enjoys the con
fidence and esteem of the citizens of At
lanta. He and his charming wifoare prom
inent in social circles, ami their many warm
friends in Atlanta and Georgia will learn
with pleasure oi his appoinhueut.
The removal of some of the Constitu
tion's friends from office, and thoap
pointment of a colored clerk, under the
civil-scrvico law, seems to have worked
a great change in its estimate of General
Lewis. In December last, when Presi
dent-elect Harrison was considering his
Cabinet, the name of Col. A. E. Buck, of
Atlanta, was presented as a representa
tive Southern Republican. At that time
the following was sent to General Har
rison:
We learn that the friends of the Hon.
Alfred E. Buck, of Georgia, will present his
nunc to your consideration for a place in
vour Cabinet. Without the knowledge of
himself or his political friends, we, as citi
zens of Georgia and Democrats, desire to
testify to the high character aud ability of
Colonel Buck, as made manifest to us by a
residence of fifteen years in Atlanta. Vo
believe that no Republican in the South
stands higher than he or has better in
fluence among all classes of the people.
This teatimony is uttered in no personal or
partisan spirit, bat as unsolicited evidence
of the esteem in which Colonel Hack is held
by his fellow-citizens, irrespective of party
or class. A re cognition of his worth and
ability by yourself would be highly grati
fying to tho undersigned.
This was signed by Governor Gordon,
of Georgia all tho Democratic State
officers, tho Mayor and city officers of
Atlanta, Evan P. Howell and Henry W.
Grady, of the Constitution; Senator Col
quitt, the judges of the Supreme Court
and of all the local courts, and many
other Democratic officials and promi
nent citizens. Colonel Buck was not
appointed to a Cabinet position, and
now, under the clamor raised by the
Constitution on account of the appoint-
ment of a colored clerk, he and Post
master Lewis are burned in effigy. Was
there ever anything more ridiculous!
A PATEIOTIO DUTY,
Only three days remain in which to
prepare for the celebration of Thursday.
The occasion will be one of double inter
est. The corner-stone laying of the sol
diers' monument should itself excite
universal interest. The monument will
be the finest of its kind in the United
States, and beyond comparison tho most
attractive feature in or about the city.
It will bo an honor to the State and its
capital. Tho formal inauguration of so
noble an enterprise should be recognized
in such a way as to show that the people
appreciate its significance, and are in
sympathy with its motive. For once let
us forget the dull demands of trade and
dicker and yield, for a little while, to
tho Infrinr Tnniii',R insnirrd Tiv a treat
work of art destined to become historic
in the annals of the State, and foremost
among its at tractions. Let us recall the
grand events which it commemorates
the hardships, the dangers, the sacri
fices, the marches, bivouacs, battles and
victories. Let us people tho streets
onco more with the armed thousands who
enlivened them nearly thirty years ago,
as they marched to the front to do battle
for the Stato and Nation. Let us
remember how much the Stato owes in
honor of tho dead as well as tho living
heroes of that period, and then let us
not fail to make some outward express-
ion oi the sentiment these retiections
inspire. The old soldiers will be here in
great numbers, and they should not bo
permitted to have causo to say, on ac
count of their cold welcome, that repub
lics are ungrateful.
Besides the old soldiers and a great
crowd of other visitors, the President of
the United States will be here. That
alone will be sufficient reason for a popu
lar demonstration of welcome. The peo-
plo of New England have just shown
what a grand and cordial reception a
patriotic people can give their Presi
dent. For the President of tho United
States is tho President of all the people,
and, as the head of the government.
should bo received with demonstrations
of honor and respect by all. An Amer
ican who cannot join heartily in doing
honor to the President of the United
States, whether agreeing with him in
politics or not, is not .fit to be an Amer
ican. Such partisanship is worse than
disgusting, it is unpatriotic, and pos
sesses the elements of disloyalty. Show
us a man who refuses to honor tho
head of the government, as such, and
we will show you a man who does not
appreciate and is not fit to enjoy the
benefits of free government.
Tho President comes here in his offi
cial capacity on a public occasion of
great interest. He comes to 6how his
regard for the old soldiers and his sym
pathy for the cause for which ho and
they fought. He comes also as an hon
ored citizen of Indiana and of Indian
apolis, and, therefore, with multiplied
claims upon the people. Let them prove
by their acts that they honor not only
the office, but the man; that they sym
pathize with tho occasion which brings
him here, and are proud to have fur
nished tho Nation its chief executive.
It is the patriotic duty of all to join in
doing honor to the old soldiers and tho
President.
THE BENEFITS OF PROTECTION.
Tho Sentinel pretends to have discov
ered an argument against protection in
the influx of British capital to the
United States. The Journal cited it as
evidence of the shrewdness of English
investors and their desire to sharo in tho
beneficial results of protection. "The
policy that protects American capital
and makes American industries prosper
ous" said tho Journal, "will protect
British capital invested in American in
dustrics." Of course it will, and protect
American workmen employed and paid
by British capital, as well as those em
ployed and paid by American capital.
Whereupon the Sentinel says:
This is as ample a confession as any free
trader could a?K for. The tariff is aspleu
did thine for the capitalists who are inter
ested in protected industries. No one ques
tions it but protectionists, and they have
lied about it all through the tariff contro
versy. He John Bnlll sees the
American people taxingthenisclvcs to death
to fatten American capitalists, and there
upon say 6: "This is a soft snap. 1 will
take some of it myself." And he does so,
and the Aniericau people tax themselves to
fatten him, and ho takes the money over to
England and trends it there, and the ad
mirers of tho treat American system hold
up their hands and pay: "What a splendid
thing lor America:"
This is very silly. If any protectionist
ever denied that tho tariff protects capi
tal as well at labor we should like to
know who, when and where it was. On
the contrary, one- of the strongest argu
ments in favor of protection is that
it not only protects American work
meu against direct competition
with foreign pauper labor and
keeps their wages nearly one
hundred per cent, higher than the Eu
ropean standard, but also protects the
capitalist and employer, and enables
him to pay thoso wages. This is tho re
sult of protection, as demonstrated by
experience. It protects employer and
employe alike. Capital and labor are
equal sharers in its benefits.
No person has ever claimed that tho
tariff did not protect capital as well as
labor, except free-traders. They deny
that it protects either, and assert that it
is an injury to both. During tho last
campaign the free-trade organs printed
columns of figures and mountains of lies
to prove that British manufacturers
were more prosperous than those of tho
United States, and that British work
men received as good, or better, wages
than American. In every possible form
of assertion and argument they claimed
that the American people, capitalists as
well as laborers, wage-payers as well as
wage-earners, were injured, crippled
and impoverished by the tariff.
Both classes, all classes, and the
country at large, they claimed,
would be immensely benefited by
a repeal of tho tariff. Against this
clamor the friends -of . protection op
posed then, as they do now, tho solid
facts of experience 'and the overwhelm
ing record of A&crican prosperity
under protection a prosperity that has
embraced all classes and all interests,
and in which capital and labor have
been equal sharers.
The idea that the country will bo
impoverished by the influx of foreign
capital is worthy of the political school
which teaches that it would be enriched
by buying abroad. .The amount of
0
foreign capital invested or ever likely'to J
be invested here is not a drop in a barrel
compared to that of our own people, and
the shrewd American people will not bo
alarmed at the prospect of impoverish
ment by increasing the active capital of
the country. Tho only significance it
has is the eagerness of foreign capital to
seek investment in a country where
labor gets the highest wages and capi
tal the largest returns.
If there could be any higher tribute
to the efficacy of protection than that
furnished by the influx of foreign cap
ital it is found in the influx of foreign
labor. That is no new thiug like tho
other. The influx of foreign working
men has been going on for twenty years.
They discovered the benefits of the
American system at an early period, and
each succeeding year new thousands of I
them have sought our shores to avail
themselves of its benefits. And they
have not been disappointed. Thousands
of those who came here poor are now
rich or well-to-do. Thousands who came
hero as wage-workers are now wage
payers. Employes have become em
ployers and workingmen have become
capitalists. All have shared in the gen
eral prosperity, and all can testify to
the benefits of protection.
THE LAW OF EXCUSABLE HOMICIDE.
Deputy Marshal Naglo will have a
good defenso against any criminal
charge for the killing of Terry, The
common law recognizes not only a man's
right to defend himself, but his right to
defend another person whom it is his
duty to protect, as a wife, child or mas
ter. An officer of the court, specially
ordered to protect a'judge on his circuit,
comes clearly under this rule. Strictly
speaking, a homicide committed in self
defense is only excusable when abso
lutely necessary, but in this country the
law has never been so strictly construed.
Here the killing is usually held excus
able if, under the actual circumstances,
the accused had good reason to believe
his action necessary to save life or. pre
vent grievous bodily harm. Bishop; in
his work on criminal law, after defining
the law of self-defense, says "the doc
trine is that whatever one may do for
himself ho may do for another." "Des
ty's Digest of American Criminal Law,"
Sec. 120, says that any person is justified
in intentionally inflicting death when
be does it in ueienuing inmseir t or
any one else from the danger
of instant death or grievous bodily
harm, if he, in good faith, and on reason
able ground, deems it necessary when he
inflicts it. In another section it says
that self-defense will justify a person in
defending those with whom ho is asso
ciated, and in killing if ho believes life
is in danger. This right may be exer
cised by the servants and friends of the
party assaulted or any one present if he
be repelling an attempted felony. Fol
lowing this doctrine the Supreme Court
of Kentucky, in a recent case, after
stating that one person may defend
another subject to attack and not in
fault, even to the extent of taking life if
necessary, adds:
A a olunteer must not kill in behalf of one
in fault. This would bo what some writers
have termed a negligent killing, llemav.
however, do so lor ono not in fanlt if the
impending danger thus brought ahout be
actual or appareur. In other words, as the
person not in fault may, if he believe and
has reasonable grounds to believe that his
life is in imminent danger, defend it to the
extent of taking life, so another may act
upon liko appearances as to such danger
and defend it lor mm to tne same extent.
Under theso ruliugs Deputy Marshal
Nagle will have no difficulty in making
a good defense.
Some, if not all, of the Becktold-Will-
iams geographies, distributed through
tho State, aro without the chapter on
Indiana prepared by State Librarian
Dunn for insertion in the Minnesota
edition. This will make matters inter
esting in the schools when the cobbled-
up books are finally ready. Uniformity
of text-books is a strong feature of the
law, but uniformity is not adhered to in
practice.
The Crow-Town Street-Cars.
And now comes the announcement that
the cars are to be taken oti tho Seventh
Street and Home-avenue lino, except at tho
clo.-e of tho base-ball game daily, and on
Sundays, because it does not pay. This
starts a question "which xLe Councilmen of
the northern part of the city, and the south
as well, should at once look into. Speak
ing generally, it is not toomuch to say that
the servico of our street-car system is
among the very best in the countrv; and
that there has been a very general acqui-
escence in the measures adopted by the
Citizens1 company to keep out competition.
for, as a rule, tne service Has been satis
factory. Evidently tho company had tho
law on its side, and it has not been slow to
appropriate to its use every street that
conld possibly be usedto any advantage by a
rival company, without stopping to inquire
whether it would at once be profitable or
not. If rumors aro reliable, several lines
are now operated at a loss, while tho entire
system is even now, under tho liberal char
ter, ono of the very best pieces of railroad
property in the whole country, with
a promise of great improvement
in value in tho near future. Iut,
having shut out all competition by
appropriating all leading streets and
avenues, are we to understand that it will
occupy no btrccta audoperate no lines that
are not of themselves profitable? Fortu
nately, the city has reserved Tights in this
matter. It can order the running of cars
wherever and as often as may bo deemed
proper. The streets of the city are not to
be given up to a mere money-making cor
poration. That the company should make
money is conceded, but it should also fur
nish reasonable accommodations to tho
public. A man living in the northeastern
portion of the city has as good a right to
reach tho northwestern portion by street
car accommodations, without having to
pass the- transfer, as ho has to reach the
center of the city, just as the southeast has
a light to reach the southwest. A system
of transfer tickets, perfectly safe and
equitablo, would add much to tho income
on these cross-town lines, as veil as to the
convenience of tho people. The people
have a right to demand of the city the
enforcement of their rights in this mat
ter. We have stood by and seen the
company gobble up the best streets in their
interest; now let us compel them to pay
some attention to the interest of other peo
ple, though not so profitable to tho com
pany. There is no reason way a man liv
ing on Columbia and Seventh may not be
carried to Mississippi and Seventh by a
reasonably direct route, or from Reid and
m. Avfwv v 119 BUU XfCSb, Ur IUD DlUtK"
yards. The Council has the right to re-
Prospect to Morris and West, or the stock-
quire such transportation. Let it exercise
that right. ; Let it require the resuming of
tho Seventh street and Home-avenue line,
at reasonable intervals, say at least four
times an hour, and also the building of a
cross line, on or near Morris street, from
Virginia avenue to the river. We cannot
afford to have our streets destroyed as they
?re merely for one company, to shut out all
competition on the more profitable lines
and leave other portions of tho city unpro
vided for. -
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Dr. Sciilieman, the noted explorer, has
returned to Berlin, where he owns a beau
tiful honse. to remain some time. It is his
intention to arrange the fruits of his ex
cavations in Egypt, which hehas presented
to tne iioyai Museum.
The rumors which have been current to
the effect that the Empress Dowager Au
SU8a of Germany, had joined the Church
of Rome, have been set at rest bv a state
incut nuiu eimar, emanating irom a mgu
source, to the effect that there is not the
slightest truth in tho report.
. X T. m " ...
The Duke of Sparta and Princess Sophia,
of Prussia, who are to be married presently.
are mdustnouslv studying each other's na
tive language. The Dnke has got on so well
that he recently wrote the German Em
peror a letter iu German, and tho Princess
can now talk Greek a httle.
Oliver Optic thinks that if he had half
a dozen wide-awake American bovs to
amuse he could do it better in Constanti
nople than in London or Paris. The two
latter cities would not seem so much un
like New York or Boston to them, but in
the city of the Sultan evervthinir they saw
woum nave tne enann or novelty.
Tun Presbyterian denomination takes
special interest in the celebration of the one
hundred-and-sixty-third anniversary of tho
colonial log college at Hartsville, Pa., the
predecessor of Princeton, which takes place
on Sept. 5. The log college was a hut built
by Kev. William Tennent. in which to edu
cate his four sons for the ministry.
Tin: Shah of Persia spent a long time in
the Louvre in Paris, sketching the crowns
of Louis XV and Napeleon I, and study
ing the diamonds and brilliants, lie also
watched the painters at work copying from
celebrated paintings, and patted some of
the artists on their shoulders, saj'ing. ap
provingly: "Very well done! very good!"
A slick confidence man in Arkansas, re
cently, made quite a pot of money by sell
ing bulbs which he said would produce rare
orchids and other exotics. Enthusiastic
ladies paid from 75 cents up to 5 apico for
the magic roots. The bulbs were duly
planted and produced common turnips.
The vendor long ago left for parts un
known.
Mr. Presley Saunders, uncle of Mrs.
Russell Harrison, recently died at Mount
Pleasant, la. He has lived on the same
quarter-section since 1834, and there one
of his children w as born in Michigan Terri-
IWI J BIIUIUC1 1U ISlUUSlll AC1UIU1 Y, it 1111111
in Iowa Territory, and a fourth in the State
of Iowa. The family record is a lesson in
political geography.
A young man, aged twenty-one, commit
ted suicide at Leeds, after writing this let
ten "I am going to'commit suicide on Fri
day morning, as I want to be buried on
bank holiday (Monday), so that I shall dis
appoint my cousin Annie, who is to be mar
ried on that Gay, so thore will be a funeral
instead of a wedding. I hope you will
attend my funeral. 1 will meet you in
heaven."
The Emperor of Germany rode recklessly
at the Aldershot review last week. Head
long rider as he is, says an English corre
spondent, his seat is the reverse of good,
being the very looso and bucketing sort of
a seat that the old school of riding masters
used to call "wash-ball." There cannot be
much amiss with his left arm, since he can
pull a horso on his haunches from a gallop
with it.
Amanda M. Douglas, the popular
novelist, has for the last sixteen years been
the chief support of her father aud sister,
and most of the time of her mother also.
During all these years, she has written, on
an average, two novels a year; in fact she
lias been so busy that she has seldom been
away from home for a week at a time.
She can keep house, run a farm, and make
chickens pay.
Thoma8 A. Edison contemplates a long
trip to the East. He has worked very hard
for a good many years, and he f eels en
titled to a vacation. He is anxious to visit
Egypt and Greece, and may go there from
Paris iu September or October. His busi
ness interests are now so great that it is
difficult for him to leave them, and it may
prove impossible. He will make the jour
ney if ha can, however.
Mme. Patti is now on her way to South
ampton, after a most successful series of
concerts in Buenos Ayres, where, on July
20, she was given a benefit aud presented
with a crown of diamonds. Mr. Abbey is
to pay her a night during her engage
ment in this country and a percentage of
the gross receipts. Tamagois guaranteed
lifty performances, for each ono of which
he is to receive $J,500.
Society in Munich is at present excited
over tho determination of a young Japa
nese woman who has played u social role
in the Bavarian capital. Miss Toki Mr-
dira, the daughter of ono of the highest
families in the empire of the Mikado, has
decided to take th veil, and next month
will enter the convent of the fcjistera of
Chenfailles. This is said to be the lirst in
stance of this kind on record.
Roukkt Gaisrett's intimate personal
friends, who have visited him at Bar
Harbor this month, say that his recovery
is nearly complete. Ho attends to his cor
respondence, and reads all tho newspapers,
and takes an active interest in current
events. Ho willretnrn to active business
in the fall, aud will take personal charts
of the large interests connected with his
own investments, and with the banking
house of Garrett & Sons.
.Hon. William M. Evarts is going to
Europe to consult eminent medical au
thority in regard to his eyes. It is to be
hoped ho will not have the 6ame experience
that a lady of Itoston had, who went to a
London aurist for help. After a close ex
amination, ho said: "Madam, there is ono
man who knows more about your peculiar
ditliculty than any man liviug. It is Dr.
Blake, of Boston." "Why, I came from
Boston," was the quick reply.
l)n. Brown-Slquard is an American.
His father, Capt. Edwaid Brown, of the
American navy, was a Philadelphiau, and
married a French woman ou the island of
Mauritius named Seqnard. lie and his de
scendants took the name of Brown-Sev,uard.
The distinguished scientist, whose elixir of
youth is making a seusatiou, was their eld
est child. He was educated in trance, but
vpars kii liQfnitfnf.
his first wife being Miss Fletcher, of lios-
ton, a relative oi uaniei v CDster.
It is 6aid that the chief reason why little
King Alexander was only anointed, and not
crowned, was tho somewhat humiliating
incttnat the cost ot a crown and tne rest
of tho insiiznia of royalty were beyond tho
means at the disposal of the Servian Chan
cellor of the Exchequer.
Have you ever watched the warfare
Of two women over car-fare!
Each aflame with generous feeling.
Depth ot heart and purse revealing;
Each inspired with srentle horror
Lest the other should pay for her.
But take uote the more insistent
Of the combatant persistent,
tfhe wboe hand most promptly snatches
At her pocketbook's stiff catches.
She who U'urumra; "Don't be Ptranpe, fiear.
It's all right. I've pot the change, dear:"
She though I ana sad to say It
Always lets the other pay it!
-Buffalo Courier.
COMMENT AND OPINION.
The great llag of the country covers a
Nation of freemen, but gives no sanctuary
to conspirators against the peace of other
nations. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Labor of one sort is not worth as much as
labor of .another sort, and the organization
which attempts to set aside this universal
law will inevitably fail to benefit the work
ing people as a whole. New York Tribune.
It would be a very doubtful blessing for
most men to live always on this earth; and
the eternal survival of those to whom it
might be a' blessing to escape from the next
world would be a distinct curso to their
fellow-men. Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Republican party is not suspected of
harboring uupatriotio ideas and aims, and
consequently it will never essay to bully
Canada in order to arrest a decrease in the
value of political stocks at homo. It is truly
American, just and fair in its dealings with
foreign nations. Minneapolis Tribune.
One of the pleasantest circumstances
connected with President Harrison's visit
in Maine was the cordiality with which
many of the leading Democrats of t he Stato
joined in the demonstrations in his honor.
This is as it should be. President Harrison
is the President of the whole nation. Bos
ton Journal.
In the case of the Sugar Trust, the evils
now endured can bo corrected in twenty
four hours after Cougress assembles, by tne
passage of a law changing the present sys
tem of taxing imported: sugar to a simple
specific tax of two cents per pound, without
regard to color or saccharine matter. Bos
ton Herald.
The notion that a campaign must be cor
rupt if it costs money is tit only for polit
ical infants of less than average sense. If
a campaign costs $10, it is exceedingly safe
to say that more than SlUX) of that sum is
needed for purposes absolutely upright and
honest, provided the causo itself is honest.
New York Tribune.
Terry died as the fool dieth. and his name
will live in the history of this country in
blacker odium than that of any other man
of equal capabilities, attainments, aud op
portunities", since the day when Aaron Burr
slew Alexander Hamilton and made his
own namo infamous through all time.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
There is no doubt that it would go hard
with one prominent pugilist if he defied tho
authorities in any Southern State. This
man is Peter Jackson, the negro champion
from Australia, lnfact.it would probably
bo as much as his life was worth to whip a
white man in a Southern ring, to say noth
ing of legal punishment. Cleveland
Leader.
Has the Nation power to protect its high
est judicial otlicers, or even its chief mag
istrate, against threatened assault or as
sassination only in their official spheres or
only on government ground! Has it no
power to protect them on the public high
ways! To hold that it has not is to hold
the Nation at the mercy of a mob and its
highest officers defenseless before an as
sassin. New York Herald.
BECKTOLD'S SHODDY BOOKS.
Editors of County Papers Continue to Tell the
Truth About the St Louis Literary Junk.
Huntington Herald: The people of Win
chester, Portland and Union City are kick
ing hard against the State map of the In
diana school-book series. , None of these
cities appear upou it.
Liberty Herald: It appears that the new
school-book law has created a bigger mo
nopoly m school books than existed here
tofore, and the books are inferior iu qual
ity and character of matter they contain.
Worthiueton Times: Tho people of Green
county are well aware of the fact that a
change m the school-books this fall will
necessitate an outlay of at least 5,000.
which amount will stay in their pockets
if the change is not made. This is whv the
Times is opposed to tho change at this
time.
Hendricks Couuty Republican: Wo do
not doubt that the "trusts" could furnish
as good books as those of the Becktold
series at prices as low, and make money on
them; but the people don't want the cheap
est school-books 6imply because they are
cheap. If there is anything a progressive
American wants worse than another, it is
the best thing at reasouable rates, and not
the most inferior thing merely because it
costs little.
Warren Republican: The Indiana series
of school text-books are becoming better
known each dav. and the moio the peonle
nuu out auout tnem tne more opposed aro
they to a change. Ihe nooks aro inferior
to tho series to be laid aside. In their
adoption by our common schools we take a
backward step, aud such steps are expens
ive, taking from the pockets of the patrons
au auuiuouai sum oi mouey ami giving in
return an almost useless article.
Delphi Journal: It is a loss all along the
line. The new series is out of date. Tho
1 " a.
uooks are inferior in every way in quality
paper, in bindiutr. printing and en craving.
It lias been a ciievons burden for thou
sands of people to pnrchaseo ccasional bookn
lor their children. hat win be tho weight
of this burden now that they are compelled
to buv a complete series of book 8 T The ef
fect will be to tako scores of children in
Indiana out of the public schools.
Elkhart Review: Democratic papers aro
wailing sadly beauso Elkhart county docs
not fall into the line of supporters of tho
new school-books with enthusiasm. They
need not worry. Elkhart will conform to
the law, but it proposes to find out just tho
limits of the law, and go no further. The
repeal of the school-book lw, so far as it
relates to the manner of selectingthe books,
will be changed in two years, and Elkhart
county proposes to reduce the disaster to
its schools to the minimum.
Keudallville Standard: The Standard
knows nothing about the existence of
sehool-book rings, previous to the organi
zation of the Indiana company. We have-
not seen tnis company ueuy ut connection
with the btaudard rublisuing Company,
St. Louis, nor that it is a sandwich be
tween that concern and tho Stato of In
diana as the only way the books can be
palmed oil', and that it receives a commis
sion tor its services, n inese circumstances
do not suggest a "ring," what undef tho
sun does?
llequlreraents of the Xew Law.
Vincennes Commercial.
No law can compel a man in this free Re
public to buy what he does not want to
buy. The government may tako upon it
self the duties of paternity, and edncate tho
child in a direction suitnb'e to itself, but it
cannot compel a man, ou general principles,
to invest his money where he docs not want
to invest it. Section 7 of the new
school-book law is maudatory upon trustees
not patrons ot' schools in that it requires
of them a certificate ot the numi'cr of school
text-books needed in their several school
corporations. The trustee must certify
this information to the county school su.
perintendent, who shall make a requisition
for the books required upon the State Su
perintendent of Public Instruction, and he
shall require the books to be sent out
bv the contractor within ninetv davs.
Such books shall be sold for cash only, and
if the cash is not paid for the books
they shall not be disposed of. This seems
to imply that it tne patrons do not buy tho
books, the schools shall iro on with the old
ones. No law, or board of education, or
trustees, or teacher, or other school oiiiciaW
can refuse the meaus of education to the
child of a tar-payer becauso ho does not
buv the books designated bv them. Tho
school must go on in accordance with tho
law, and tho money provided for the main
tenance of tho schoolsahail be paid oyer to
was afterwards a professor at Harvard, and
practiced medicine in Philadelphia for some
the teachers. Schools cannot be practically
suspended because certain designated
books aro not used. Such anarchist io
methods cannot bo forced upon the people.
As a matter of courtesy and facility i:i tho
management of schools, no patron will re
fuse to buy books of a certain kind when
his children need them if they are as cheap,
acceptable and good as any "other class of
school books. A proviso in Sec. 7 says:
Nothing in this act fchall oirate to prerent ths
State Hoard of Education. loaiU of school trus
tee, or boanl of school couun).ioncr from de
vising means and mating arrangements for the
sale, exchance or other dUpoiiilon of such look
as may 1 owned by the pupil of the chool un
der their oharKo at the time of the adoption of
hooks under the provisions of this act.
Here we see thAt the time for the adop
tion of the books is optional with the school
botiies named. ; The books may not be kept
out of the schools entirely, but they mav
not bo forced on the public without pro
viding, in eome way. for their sacrifice of
tho old books, lhus it seems that th
board of school trustees dare not force tho
new books upon the schools at once, with
out making amends for the loss of the old
books in somo wav or other.
The law does not seem to contemplate tho
adoption of tho new books all at onre.if wo
are to judge by tho requirements of Section
8 of tho new school law. This section pro-
viues lor quarterly reports by the trustees
to tho county snperintcdent "of tho num
ber of books sold and the amount of money
received therefor, and the number of books
on hand." It is nowhere provided tht the
irusieo may uraw more uooks tnan he
needs, consequently tho law does not- con
template the sale of all tho books at onco,
or it wonld not require a report of the num
ber sold and tho number left unsold. If all
are sold at once there is no need of quar
terly reports of the number still remaining
on hands, for there are none left ovr.
And further, the matter is entirely in tho
hands of the school patrons. If they do not
want tho books they aro not compelled to
uy them of thoir trustee boofc-seller.
EDITORS IN CLOVER.
ReUgious Journalist Knjoys Himself and
Tells or a Prolific Family.
Georgia Baptist.
The Georgia Baptist man was happy to
pay tne third fchiloh Association a visit.
last week, in its third annual session.
Though cotton has not begun to be mar
keted by the brethren, several subscribed
for the Georgia Baptist and many others
promised to send their money assoonas
they could sell some cotton. The sisters
gave us a plenty to eat on the ground.
Kev. L. Garey and family gave us a royal
entertainment at their pleasant home
Friday night. Brother Garey has an in
teresting family. His oldest daughter is
one of Spelman's girls, and a good one, too.
.Mrs. Biackwcii. ot Lincoln county, verv
kindly gave us a seat in her buggy from tho
church to Brother Carey's, and back to the
church Saturday morning. We took tea
with the family of Judge Sherman, who
lives one mile from the church. It is a
country mile. Mr. Sherman is a remark
able man. He is employed by Mr. Pope, a
rge land owner, to overlook several Plan
tations that ;tro rnn by renters. His wifo
is an estimable Christian ladv and is an
excellent housekeeper. Twenty-two vears
ago she was wedded to Mr. Sherman when
quite young, he being several years her
senior. God has blessed theni to become
the parents of twenty-eight children since
that time, and doubtless the family is to
still further increase. At one birth threo
children were added to the family. The
nest addition was one and the next two
were two children each, making eight chil
dren at four birth-givings. Tho other
twenty children followed each other rapid
ly, and so twenty-eight have been crowded
into twenty-two years. e do not believe
this record can be beaten in this country.
An Kdltor's Outing.
Davlens County (Ind.) Democrat.
Leaving Bicknell. Thursday afternoon
fouud us at the farm, in the eastern edge of
Daviess county, ot JUr. John YV. Major,
than whom a better Democratic farmer
never breathed free, puro country air.
Here we rode behind a span of the biggest
Norman horses that aro to bo fouud any
where, and saw the linest cattle, sheep and
hogs to be found outside of a county fair.
We ato country ham, corn and beans pears
peaches, water and muskmelons until life
was almost a burden. If there is a woman
in tho county who knows how to tickle the
palate of man and make him fat. that
woman must bo Mrs. Hannah Major, who
loads her table with tho products of j0
broad acres. For princely living visit tho
Major farm, two and one-half miles north
west of Loogootee. Tired of viewiug Plym
outh rocks and fat tock, and coveting all.
we organized a company of four, and Sat
urday morning at 6 o'clock started, behind
the big span of Normans, for Indian and
Trinity springs, where, after galloping up
hill and down, over small bowlders the sizo
of a wash-tub, through ruts that would
burv a cow. bv farms of sassafras and
sumac, fields of iino corn, wheat aud oats
trees loaded with chestnuts, fruit trees
loaded to tho ground with apples, and
peaches, over mile-high mountains, wo ar
rived at 11 o'clock.
A Unique Pack of Cards.
Buston Journal.
At a sale in Birmincham. Enulaud. a
dealer paid $285 for a pack of cards. Tho
pack is stated to bo the only ono of its kind
in the world. Every card is specially en
graved, aud the pack comprises an ex
haustive pictorial history of tho principal
events in the reign of Queen Anne down to
170G. They include the victories of Marl
borough, tho eea lights of Admiral Benbow.
all the various changes counected with tho
parliamentary proceedings of the day, and
the conclusion of the treaties between
England, and France, and Spain. Tho
queen of heartsis a very well-drawn nicturo
of Queen Anne herself, and tho king of
hearts represents rnnco Ueorgo, of 'Den
mark, her husband. The queen of diamonds
is Annio fcophia, Queen of Denmark; tho,
queen of clubs is tho Princess Koyal of
I'russia, and the queen ot spades is tho
Princess Anne, of Russia. The knaves
were represented bv leading politicians of
the day.
Work SUU to lie Done.
Detroit Tribune.
When instico cets this job all linished.
Sarah Althea Hill feharon Terry will have
a chance to sit down on the back doorstep
of her infamous career and wish she had
never been born. She has been tho devil a
chambermaid ever since she was a big girl
aud has given the old fellow a great many
points in ner me. ouo ym piouauiy con
tinue in the same capacity as long as sho
lives and receive at last the compensation
she deserves.
Reluctant Admiration.
Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
Safe and sound iu Washington to-ni.Tht,
Pre6ideut Harrison may rellect with proper
utterance to a thought calculated' to dis-
t V a
turn tne era oi uarmony and love wiucn tn
administration is seeking to establish in
the Grand Old Party. Mr. Harrison is a
1 A. - 1 A
pruaeui man, wno taxes counsel pi nis on n.
intcueciions.
m
If Proved It.
Philadelphia lb-covd.
& v. . . . .A 1 k kA rj -
paper, when a woman drew near, repioach-
ini? him authoritatively lor his condition.
inuthin of the kind.,f be ansvr-d. "J"
had 'jectiouof Hrow'-Siccard 'lixir. Hear
me ba-a-a-a.77 The voice of n pruacuwas
suencea ana tne patient ion uomc
Ifor Owners.
rittaunrg Chronicle.
William L. Scott, though. owuine many
blooded horses, will never, it is said, - ride
behind one of them, but when ho rides
.chooses one which will not feoare even at a
campaign band. A deceased lawyer in this
citv UMed to be proud of the spanking car
riage team ho kejt. but when he rode it was
behind a well-tried pair of streetcar steeds.
Kllalrs of All Kindt.
Philadelphia Eccoid.
Loud-mouth Qtiackon South Broad street
to torch-illnmined crowd: "Why, gentle
men, my improved elixir Is the greatest
stuff on earth. There's a man on Passyunk
road who was bow-legged from tho ciadle.
and one squirt of this elixir made him si
knock-kneed that his pants are three inches
too short."
i
The Perverse lUack -Man.
nIlaXeIrlXrl-tritlx.
Tho colored men. of Atlanta don't pro
pose to indulge m tho efiigy business. Theo
poor ignorant fellows propose to leave th
elegant white folks have a monopoly of
that sort of high-toned amusement. The
perversity of the black man is hard to 5ul
u with.