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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1890.
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The general improvement in the
prices of agricultural products is a 6ore
affliction to the purveyors of misery.
The trust stocks have suffered so bad
ly of lato that trusts will soon be as un
popular with stockholders as with the
people generally.
TnE Illinois Democrats now prefer in
ternal taxes to a tariff, except on luxu
ries. It would tax manufacturers rather
than protect them.
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Senator Voouhees was in town yes
terday. This is'the second time within
a few weeks. Is he nervous about the
condition of his fences!
The free-sugar clause of tho McKin
ley bill is popular in every part of the
country, for the reason that the duty on
sugar is a tax upon the consumer.
Senator Vest has given notice that
ho will want several days to discuss his
drcssed-beef report and bill. There is a
suspicion that he is too much a Bourbon
to find a remedy for an alleged evil.
TnAT will not be the most prosperous
people which produces tho cheapest
goods, but that one which, in employing
a reasonable number of hours all its
people, affords them tho means of enjoy
ing the comforts of civilized life.
Noting the conviction of Lee F. Wil
son here by tho United States Court and
the recommendation of tho jury for
xnercy, an Eastern paper heads its tele
graph announcement of tho fact with
the question: 'Why should he have
mercy?" Thus far, no one appears to
answer -the question.
It turns out that the compulsory
school law of Illinois, which is now un
der attack by demagogues and bigots as
a sectarian measure, was drawn . by a
committee which consisted of Judge
Prcndergast, a Catholic; A. W. Green, a
Catholic; Adolph Kraus, a Hebrew; F.
W. Foch, jr., a Lutheran; John W.
Herrick and Judge Tuthill, American
Protestants.
It is a good indication when such pa
triotic organizations as the Loyal Le
gion of tho District of Columbia adopt
resolutions condemning such displays of
confederate enthusiasm as that in Rich
mond. That association expressed tho
opinion that there should be an end of
such displays of the flag which stood" for
hostility to tho government.
It is painfully evident that the Demo
cratic newspapers of tho South have a
great deal to fear from tho statistics to
bo presented in the census, from their
persistent eflbrts to discredit the enum
eration beforehand and to place all sorts
of obstacles in the way of the enumera
tors. "What the figures will show in re
gard to tho population of various dis
tricts now represented in Congress by
Southern Democrats, there is no accu
rate means of knowing at this distance,
but tho conduct of tho Southern press is
suspicious, to say the least.
TnE officers of tho British ocean
steamers who have been arrested at New
York for violation of our revenue laws
believe in free trade, and were trying to
practice it. In order to give dishonest
importers and middlemen tho bene
fit of goods imported freo of duty,
they have been carrying on anextensiyo
scheme of smuggling. It was cruel for
the customs officers to interfere with this
profitable industry. Perhaps tho Sen
ate committee should give tho arrested
smugglers a hearing to let them demon
strate how severely our tariff laws op
erate against importers.
TnE mugwump press is raising a pro
longed howl over tho appointment of a
Republican postmaster for Brooklyn, to
succeed an appointee of Mr. Cleveland
who had served four years. If the or
' gans aro to be believed, such an outrage
as the failuro to continue the Demo
cratic incumbent in office was never be
fore perpetrated, but somehow they
seem to forget that his predecessor,
whom they admit to have been a good
postmaster, was removed by that emi
nent reformer, Groyer Cleveland, and
also that they refrained from howling in
that instance for the 6ame reason they
are now so vociferous, namely, that they
are bitter and offensive partisans.
The city of Lafayette is likely to
furnish a notable instance of Demo
cratic "cussednesa1 on the saloon ques
tion. Tho last municipal election re
sulted in a Democratic victory. Tho
previous Council, with a Republican
majority, passed an ordinance increas
ing tho saloon license from $25 a year to
$2!J0. There aro eighty saloons in tho
citynd this increase aTded $13,000 to
tho city's revenue. That is. it would
have done so if permitted to stand,' but
the Democratic majority of the new
Council have held a caucus and decided
to repeal tho $250 ordinance and restore
tho license to $2o a year. If the people
of Lafayetto can stand that sort of
business we should think they could
stand almost anything in the way of
bad government.
THE SCHOOL B0 ASP ELECTION
An election for members of the School
Board will take place on Saturday, 14th
inst.. in tho Third, Fifth, Sixth and
Ninth districts. These elections have
always been kept free from partisan
politics, and should continue to be, but
in the present instance they involve tho
question of sustaining the board in its
action regarding German instruction in
the schools. The question as presented
is a financial as well as educational one,
and tho issue is one of economy as well
as common sense. Owing to tho increase
of expenses, the erection of two new
school-houses and the necessity of fur
nishing tuition for an increased number
of pupils, the board found it necessary
to economize, and decided to do so by
cutting off German in tho schools below
the sixth grade. This will effect a sav
ing of $0,800 a year, and still leave Ger
man jn the grades above the sixth and
in tho Highi-school. For this the board
has been sharply attacked, and an at
tempt will be made on Saturday to elect
members who will reverse this action of
the board and reinstate German in all
the grades.
Tho Journal is of the opinion that for
business reasons, if no other, the action
of tho board should be sustained. We
think it clear that under the law the
board has discretionary power to say in
what years or grades of the public
schools German shall be taught. It has
that power in regard toother branches,
and German should bo no exception.
In the present caso the action of tho
board is justified by business and finan
cial reasons which commend themselves
to the common sense of the community.
We believe a decided majority of the
people would vote to abolish German
instruction in tho schools entirely, but
that question is not raised at present.
If the people believe that it is the first
duty of tho board to provide school ac
commodations and instruction in En
glish, aud that for this purpose it was
right to economize by cutting off Ger
man in certain grades, they should so
declare at tho polls. As an effort is to
be made to overrule the board and to
reverse its action on this subject, it be
hooves the people to understand the
issue.
In the Third district Dr. Garver, pres
ent member of the board, sustains its
action, and is a candidate for re-election.
In the Fifth district Mr. Galvin,
present member and supporter of the
action of the board, is also a candidate
for re-election. In the Sixth district
Mr. Loeper, present member, and op
ponent of the action of the board, is a
candidate for re-election, and is opposed
by Colonel Fesler, who sustains tho ac
tion of the board. In tho Ninth district
Mr. Clemens Vonnegut, present mem
ber, and opponent of the action of the
board, is a candidate for . re-election,
and is opposed by Mr. Joseph Grennen,
who sustains the action of the board.
These aro all good men, the only issue
being as above stated.
MOB VIOLENCE AND THE LAV,
Tho acquittal of tho assailants of
David Ilosea, in Daviess county, the re
cent outrages at Corydon, and tho second
merciless flogging of Strouther give pe
culiar emphasis to tho well-known fact
that of tho many prosecutions in Harri
son, Crawford, Orange and other of tho
sparsely settled "back" counties of tho
southern tier none has ever resulted in
the punishment of a single White Cap.
It seems nearly time to confess that the
criminal laws are unable, in their pres
ent, shape, to copo with tho evil. Tho
law very properly insures a fair trial to
the accused by permitting him to ask for
and obtain a change of venue, thereby
recognizing tho fact that under certain
circumstances the sense of justice of a
whole county may become so perverted
that it is impossible to find in
it a jury that will decido a caso
without prejudice. This is one of
tho rules in criminal law , that does
not work both ways. Yet experi
ence has amply proven the fact that not
only in Indiana, but all over the coun
try, mob violence is almost unexception
al!' a safe crime in a rural district, par
ticularly if any of tho participants in it
happen to be men of local prominence
and influence. Possibly it would still
ba dangerous to admit tho principle that
tho prosecution also has a right to de
mand a change of venuo in order to pro
cure a fair trial, but it would Beeni en
tirely possiblo to frame such a law that
would cover cases of mob violence
without endangering tho chances of the
accused for a fair trial. Certain it is
tha if a few of these White Cap cases
Were tried in the more enlightened coun
ties of Indiana there would bo an early
end to tho disgraceful business.
DISQUIETING EUttOES.
The intimations from Washington that
Congress will not pass a federal election
law this session fiud no favor with Re
publican voters. Should they prove
true, Republicans generally will be
greatly disappointed. They were never
more in earnest about this matter than
now, for the reason that never before
have they so clearly beheld the evils and
tho growing dangers from a system of
election frauds which docs not hesitate
at the greatest outrages upon suffrage.
The evidence in the cases which have
been considered by the Houso proves
conclusively that ballot-box frauds
which turn honest majorities of thou
sands into minorities are ey steniatically
practiced. If these crimes could be con
fined to the State elections, no great ob
jection would be made, but they are not.
They affect tho political status of
Congress and give a minority of voters
tho control of tho so-called popular
branch. To permit this outrago and
wrong to continue is to undermine the
foundation of popular government.
Now tho Republicans have it in their
power to check, if not to overthrow,
this great evil and danger. Will they
neglect to do their duty! The law need
not be a radical measure, but one, like
the Rowell bill, which will extend the
present federal election law to every
district or part of district where a cer
tain number of voters petition for such
supervision as it affords a measure
which will take tho manipulation of ballot-boxes
and returns out of the hands
of the element which have been proved
to be guilty of the perpetration of tho
grossest frauds. Tho Republicans,; wo
repeat, look for such legislation, and
will be very generally dissatisfied if it is
not enacted by the present Congress.
THE UNITED STATES MEDAL OP H03J0B.
A bill is now pending before the mili
tary committee of tho House providing
that medals of honor shall be struck and
presented to tho surviving soldiers of a
storming column which was to attack
the works at Port Hudson, in 1803. The
order for the attack was issued by Gen.
Banks, who had pushed the siege of
Port Hudson up to a point where it was
thought a final assault would carry
them. Two previous attacks had been
made unsuccessfully, and with great
loss, and this was something of a for
lorn hope. In his order calling for an
assaulting column, General Banks said:
The commanding gcnoral summons the
bold men of the corps to the organization
of a storming column of a thousand men,
to vindicate the flag of the Uniou and the
memory of its defenders who have fallen.
Let them como forward. Officers who lead
the column to victory in this last assault
may be assured of the just recognition of
their services by promotion, and every
officer and soldier who shares its perils
and its glory shall receive a medal tit
to commemorate the first grand success
of tho campaign of 18C3 for the freedom of
the Mississippi. His name will be placed
in general orders upon the roll of honor.
The storming column was formed, and
the brave men who composed it wero
ready to do their duty, but tho attack
w,as not made. The surrender of Vicks
burg on the 4th of July, 1803, was fol
lowed almost immediately by that of
Port Hudson, and there was, of , course,
no necessity for an assault. Under tho
circumstances some members of the
committee hesitate about ordering tho
medals. General Banks, now a member
of CongTess, urges its passage, and ex
plains that it -was not the intention of
his order to mako tho issuing of the
medals dependent on tho success of the
assault. But as a question of military
ethics it is doubtful if a special honor of
this kind should be awarded for a serv
ice that was never performed.
The medal of honor is tho one decora
tion that the government of tho United
State gives to those of its soldiers who
distinguish themselves by some act of
individual gallantry. It was authorized
by a joint resolution of Congress, ap
proved July 12, 1603, which directed
President Lincoln to cause two thousand
medals to be prepared, with suitable
emblematic devices, and to direct that
'the 6ame be presented, in the name of
Congress, to Bach non-commissioned of
ficers and privates as shall most distin
guish themselves by their gallantry in
action and their 6oldier-liko qualities
during tho present insurrection." -March
3, 1603, Congress appropriated $20,000
for additional medals from tho same
dies, providing this time that commfs
sioned officers, as well as non-commissioned
officers and privates, might re
ceive them. Tho medal is of bronze,
and is a beautiful piece of workman
ship. A large majority of them went to
enlisted men in the volunteer ranks for
acts of special personal gallantry. Tho
history of tho world does not furnish a:
more remarkable record of acts of per
sonal bravery than those for which tho
medal has been awarded. The follow
ing list shows the Indiana soldiers who
have received it, and for what service:
Thomas J. Box. captain, Twenty-seventh
Indiana, for capture of flag at Kesaca, Ga.,
May 25, 1804.
John Davis, private. Seventeenth Indi
ana, for capture of flag at Culloden, Ga.,
in April. 1805.
. CD. Evans, private. Third Indiana Cav
alry, for capture of -flag at Sailor's Creek,
Va., April ft, 1805.
William T. HolraCS,rTivate;" Third Indi
ana Cavalry, for captuta of 'flag at Sailors
'Creek, April 6, 1SC5.
Aaron It. Hudson i privaty, Seventeenth
Indiana, for capture of flag,, at '.Culloden,
Ga., in April, 1SG5.
Absalom Jordan, corporal. Third Indiana
Cavalry, for capture of flag at Sailor's
Creek, Va., April 6, 1805.
Jeremiah Kuder, lieutenant, Seventy
fourth Indiaua, for capture of flags at
Jonesborougb, Ga., Sept. 1, 1S64.
John B. Lynch, private. Third Indiana
Cavalry, for carrying dispatch from Pres
ident Lincoln to General Grant,,nt Fred
ericksburg. Va., May o, 1804. t
John N. Opel, privatev .Seventh Indiana,
for capture of llag at. Wilderness. Va., Slay
5, 1804. .'. , . ,
William Shepherd, private. Third Indi
ana Cavalry, tor capture of Hag at Sailor's
Creek, Va., April 6. 15(3.
John T. Sterling, private. Eleventh In
diana, for gallantry at Winchester, Va.,
Sept. 19, 1804.
Richard Taylor, . private. Eighteenth In
diana, for capture of llag at Cedar Creek,
Va., Oct, 19, 1804.
Peter J. Ryan, private. Eleventh Indiana,
for capture of fourteen confederates during
battle, at Winchester. Va., Sept. 19, 1S04.
Oliver P. Road, private, Twentieth In
diana, for capture of flag, at Gettysburg,
Pa., July 8, 1803.
The only instance in which tho medal
was awarded to a considerable body of
men at once was that of the Twenty-
soventh Maine Regiment, which, at Get
tysburg, July 1, 1603, volunteered to re
main and take part in the battle, al
though its term of service had expired;
For this the entire regiment, officers and
privates, received the medal of honor.
The case of General Banks's storming
party that did not storm does not seem
to be an exceptionally strong one for
such recognition.
, PREACHING AND PRACTICE.
Members of the International Copy
right League, and newspaper advocates
of the measure in Congress, have injured
their causo by their own inconsistent
course. They have argue'd and pleaded
for the rights of the author, and have
abused and insulted Congress becauso
it has failed to pass the copyright bill,
but havo been, at the same time, serene
ly publishing pirated works. Tho New
York Times and Evening Post, which
have both been extremely vituperative
toward tho House since the defeat of tho
bill, have long made a regular practice
of printing stories taken from copy
righted British magazines. They
aro 6hort stories, it is true, but
it can hardly bo claimed that there is
any differenco in principle between ap
propriating a short story and a long ono
without leave or license. Tho Post
I worked itseli into a fury of rago toward
a Philadelphia house which is offering
for sale a reprint of the Encyclopedia
Britannica, This house is a special ob
ject of hatred to" the Post, becauso its
owner is connected with tho adminis
tration at Washington, and that venom,
rather than righteous w wrath, governs
the mugwump organ is ' manifested by
the fact that it has no denunciation to
spare for a New York publishing con
cern which has been conspicuous for its
zeal in pushing the copyright bill, but
which is putting this same pirated en
cyclopedia upon the market. Unless .
tho members of the league can live up
to their professions in this matter they
are not likely to wield a very powerful
influence over Congress.
POPULATION OF THE CITY.
. Tho enumeration for the new census
has now been going on a week, and it is
said 6ome of the r enumerators have ex
pressed a doubt if the population of the
city proper will exceed 100,000. Tho
enumerators aijj prohibited from giving
any information or expressing any opin
ions on tho subject, and it may bo they
have not done so. , If. the present
enumeration does not show more than
100,000 population in the city proper the
Journal is of the opinion it will fall
about 10,000 below the truth. In other
words, we think tho population of tho
city is not less than 110,000. Estimates
based on the voto cast in various elec
tions show a population, exclusive of
suburbs, of this number, and so do those
based on the City Directory. The
former is a good basis, but the latter is
probably better. The City Directory
has been compiled and published for
many years past by the same firm. The
work of enumeration is done very thor
oughly every year by persons trained in
the business, and is carefully revised to
insure accuracy. Tho directory for 1889
contained, including the suburbs, 40,150
names. On the basis of three persons
to a name, the publishers estimated the
population of the city and suburbs that
year at 133,450, and that of the city
proper at 124,450. The directory for
1890, including tho suburbs of Haugh
ville, Brightwood, Irvington, West and
North Indianapolis, contained 48,282
names, which, on tho basis of three per
sons to a name, would give a population
for the city and suburbs of 144,840. The
publishers adopted this basis and de
ducted 15,500 'for tho suburbs, leaving
129,346 as the population of the city
proper. This estimate is too large,
growing out of tho fact, probably, that
three persons to a name is too liberal an
estimate. Some directories adopt the
basis of two and one-half persons to a
name. This would give a population
under the last directory for the city and
suburbs of 120,705, and, deducting 12,500
for suburbs, would leave 108,205 for the
city proper. But if the basis of three
persons to a namo is too high, that of
two and one-half is certainly low. A
fair average between tho two would
place the population of the city proper
at not less, than 110,000, and it is more
likely to be above than below this fig
ure. Without questioning in advance
the accuracy of the enumeration now In
progress, we do not hesitato to say that
if it falls materially below 110,000 there
will be reason to doubt its thoroughness.
EFFECTS OF AN INCREASE OF CURRENCY.
It is a very general impression that
any decided expansion of the currency,
such as will result from tho enactment
of the House silver bill or the free coin
ago of that metal, will be followed, at
once, by better times, and that the first
to feel its quickening influence will be
the farmers. Men who think closely
about such matters aro not so sure.
They cannot see how, in a direct way,
the money which is paid out for silver
bullion to the owners of silver mines, or
the dealers in silver bullion, can reach
the farmer. If it were a time of war,
and the government wero wanting sup
plies of all kinds, the transfer from the
government to producers of all descrip
tions would bo natural, but the govern
ment is not purchasing to any extent,
nor is it likely to.' The silver bills may
reach the owners of the mines in the form
of increased dividends and lead them to
larger expenditure for labor and tho
products of labor, so that; in time, a part
of such money would reach the farmer,
because the fuller employment of labor is
sure to be followed by larger consump
tion of the necessaries of life, and larger
consumption is very certain to cause an
advance of prices, unless supply is very
much in excess of demand. But this is
an indirect road to the farmer and other
producers, , and, consequently, any im
provement will be gradual. Indirectly,
the expansion of currency can reach tho
produ cer by another route. Any consid
erable addition to the volume of money
in circulation will make it so plentiful
that lower rates of interest will prevail
where would-be borrowers can give
ample security. Furthermore, abundant
money is quite sure to stimulate specula
tion in staples and stocks, causing a riso
in prices, because speculatorsjcan borrow
money at a low rate of discount and
without danger , of immediate call.
This is sure to encourage general buy
ing, and -general buying, if only upon
margins, Is sure to advance actual
prices, sometimes without any consid
eration of supply or demand for con
sumption. By this mear.s prices might
be advanced, production stimulated and
all productive interest benefited, for a
season, at least. Such sro likely to bo
the effects of that larger use of silver
which the House bill contemplates.
But there is no possible ground and no
half reason for the assumption of many
people that anything like the free coin
ago of silver will at once doublo tho
price of farm products or of the prod
ucts of skilled labor generally, and
spread prosperity and contentment over
the whole country in a month.
The indignation expressed by Demo
cratic Congressmen becauso tho govern
ment declined to permit the Marino
Band, at Washington, to play at the re
cent confederate demonstration in Rich
mond served to call attention to the
monumental gall of thoso who made tho
request. It appears, however, that ono
government band did attend that cele
bration and helped to make music for
the occasion. This was the Naval Acad-
eniy Band at Anpapolis. By permission
of tho academy authorities the band
sometimes plays in other cities, and was
allowed to do to on this occasion. Tho
event is of no special significance be
yond indicating the dull sense of honor
and low moral perceptions possessed by
some government officials. The authori
ties of the Naval Academy must havo
strange ideas of the fitness of things if
they could see no impropriety in permit
ting a government band to assist in glo
rifying tho late commander of the con
federate army. It is further Btated that
during tho recent visit of the Board of
Visitors to the Naval Academy tho samo
band regaled them with frequent per
formances of "Dixie," "Maryland, my
Maryland," etc., but did not once play
the "Star-spangled Banner," "Hail Co
lumbia," nor any other national air.
Perhaps that band had better be given a
long furlough to enable it to learn some
national airs.
Tiie Postmaster-general has . invited
suggestions and designs for a letter-box
for the doors of private residences, the
object being to promote the rapidity and
security of mail delivery in cities. The
use of such boxes is growing in Eastern
cities, and they are a great help to letter-carriers,
as well as convenience to
families. Their general use in free-delivery
cities would bo a public conven
ience. There is another practice growing up
in somo cities which should be discour
aged by the department. We refer to
the practice of placing letters for the
mail inside of glass doors or windows,
to be called for by tho carriers. The ob
ject, of course, is to 6avo tho writer the
trouble of going to the nearest letter
box to deposit tho letter, but it is a plain
departure from the intent of the deliv
ery systemand an imposition on the car
rier. His duties are to deliver letters as
addressed, and take them from the street
boxes. The postal regulations do not
contemplate his calling at a house for a
letter to be mailed, and it is obvious
that if the practice referred to should
become general it would absorb much of
the carriers' time, already limited, and
severely interfere with the delivery sys
tem. While the department is taking
measures to facilitate frco delivery it
should also see to it that carriers are not
required to perform the extra duty of
calling at houses for letters to be mailed.
Democratic papers are trying to
make their readers believe that they
achieved a victory in Oregon last week.
That the few readers of such papers as
now and then got a peep in a paper
which deals with facts may understand
the sort of a victory it was, the following
majorities for Representative to Con
gress, since 18S0, are appended:
1880, Republican 1,397
18S2, Republican 3,365
1884. Republican 2,047
1886, Republican 1,633
1888, Republican 7,407
1890, Republican.: 8,977
The Democrat who can seo a Demo
cratic victory in the above figures must
bo the hopeless victim of an overpower
ing imagination.
Mnv Mills, of Texas, who is permit
ted by one of our magazines to writ of
the effect of tho McKinley bill upon
New England, speaks of the develop
ment of a "largo shoddy industry that
could never havo como into existence if
there had been no restriction upon the
importation of wool." To this assertion
the Boston Journal of Commerce rplic3
that English woolen manufacturers use
125,000,000 pounds of this material every
year, which is equivalent to 60 per cent.
of the clean wool used in the United
States. Shoddy is one of the devices to
cheapen production, and England has
always taken the lead in applying it to
manufactures.
A white man and a colored woman
living in Georgia, being prevented by
the laws of that State from marrying,
went to Washington, where tho laws
permit such marriages, to be married,
and afterwards returned to Georgia,
where they were indicted. Judge Spear,
of tho United States Circuit Court, be
fore whom the matter came, decided
that if a State chooses to prohibit tho
intermarriage of whites and blacks
within its own borders, or to treat as
unlawful such marriages contracted by
its own citizens in another State, it has
the right and power to do so.
In 1871, says tho Lafayette Times, a caso
was on trial inaTippecanoe court in which
it became very desirabla to learn tho exact
age of the plaintiff, who was a young wom
an. Tho verdict was certain to turn on
this point, and. failing to obtain the in
formation, tho attorneys for tho defense,
John A. Stein and G. O. and A. O. Behm,
decided to apply to the superintendent of
the census, in Washington, for information
as to the age of the prosecuting w itness, as
given by her father to the census enumer
ator in the previous year 1870. The Com
missioner was informed of the circum
stances under which the information was
asked, and as the case was on trial an im
mediate reply was urgently requested. Al
most by return mail came an answer, to
the effect that the "census returns, in so far
as they relate to an individual, firm, or
corporation, are by law made the 6ole and
confidential property of the government,
and further, that any ono disclosing in
formation of a private nature, as contained
in a census return, would be liable to tine
and imprisonment, and tho request cannot
be granted." ,
Insniied by the fame of the Indianapolis
Propykeum enterprising women of Wash
ington, D. C, havo associated themselves
together for the purpose of building a sim
ilar structure for the holding of suffrage
conventions and other, purely feminine
gatherings. They will call their building
the "Wiinodaughsis." Probably the worn-
en having had the benefit of the "higher
education" so much talked of can read a
deep and classic meaning in this, hut to a
plain, uncultured newspaper person grop
ing for light it sounds liko a combination
word that might form itself when an
assemblage of women, and daughters, and
sisters are all talking at once.
Evidently White Caps and Democratio
majorities are not the only thing the
"southern tier" of Indiana can produce.
Strawberries six inches in circumference
will co a great way toward earning for
giveness for past sins and present evils.
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Some people may not bo able to under
stand why Mr.Cleveland should beelected to
membership in the New York Century Club,
which is known to the publio as an aaso-
ciation of literary gentlenieD. but 6nch peo
ple are dull. "Literary" means "pertaining
to letterR' and Mr. Cleveland is right up to
his eyes in letters these busy tariff times.
If he had been a Western man who had
taken ofl his coat in the House while mak
ing a speech, the New England press would
hivobcen discoursing upon tho rudeness
of the "wild and woolly," but when tho
offender proved to be a Massachusetts
man. Eastern culture is simply too shocked
to speak.
Lesley Martin, South Whitley, Ind.:
The lines you quote do not appear in any
book of quotations, and we do not know
tho author.
AB0CT PEOPLE AND THINGS.
Gen. Kirby Smith thinks he is the oldest
native Floridian living.
Miss Tennant, who is presently to be
come Mrs. Stanley, is a descendant of Crom-
weiu
Jay Gould is not an ornamental person.
He wears no jewelry except a small gold
shirt stud.
Unless ho changes his plans, Henry M
Stanley will t ay his friends in this country
a visit next O 3tober.
Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland will
attend the Harvard commencement as the
guests of President Eliot,
Octave Tiianet, who is so well known
as a writer of short stories, is un enthusias
tic amateur photographer.
Lincoln University, Chester county.
Pennsylvania, a Presbyterian institution
for colored youth, has received nearlv 560.-
000 in bequests this year.
James Payn, whoso light, off-had literary
work is 6o much better than his heavv
novels, is said to pass ono-twelfth of his
time at the whist table.
The University of North Carolina is now
lOlyearsold. At their meeting on Wednes
day the alumni voted to raise $50,000 for the
endowment of a chair of history.
A PiTTsnuRGER, being askod by the cen
sus enumerator for the "profession," trad
or occupation of his wife, as provided in
question iu, replied: "liome-ruler."
Congressman Vatjx is going to do as
they used to do and wear his claw-hammer
coat in Congress. Antiquity has no busi
ness to become a candidate for ridicule.
The Prince of Wales recently ordered an
Axminster carpet made in one col id piece.
with twenty-seven irregular projections.
When it went down it fitted liko the paper
on the walk
Gen. James W. Denver, after whom the
city of Denver, Col., was named, is still
hale and hearty at seventy years of atre.
He is ore of ex-Attorney-ceneral Garland'
law partners.
TnE district attorney of Saratoga. N. Y
has secured a pane of glass rocently taken
from a houso in Ballston, near tho old iron
spring where Washington Irving stopped
in 1802. Upon fie glass written, with a dia
mond, is tho famous authors signature:
"Waihinfrfnn Ttrinrr 1 ff
At a recent dinner given by Mrs. Astor
the table-cloth and napery were of ivory
white silk and satin damask. Down thp
center of the cloth was a foot-wide panel of
hand-wrought lace, which showed beneath
it rose pink satin. Tho famous dinner
service of solid silver was used.
College undergraduates of old school
propensities may learn, through a lecture
by Andrew Lang on "Tho natural history
of society, that a relativo of Kubla Kahn.
a chief whose bad luck brought on him the
sentence of death by his tribe, was tossed
in a blanket till he died.
When Fred Grant was a candidate for
Secretary of State in New York he hap
pened to mako this astute remark in ono
his brief speeches: "It is easier to handle
a surplus than a deficit," Perhaps no ex
pression is now so frequently used in busi
ness circles. Both fortunate and unfortun
ate have recourse to it.
NoTniNO delights tho average English
man more than to be a member of a society
with a long and involved name. In fact.
societies such as "The Society for the Bet
ter rromotion 01 Keiaxation from Business
Cares and Enjoyment during Luncheon
Hours in the Municipality of London"
grow in strength and influence,
Mr. Parnell usually wears a loosely-fit
ting cutaway coat But on state occasions
he always dresses in a frock coat, and, like
Mr. Gladstone's, it is a garment so well
worn that it in often disagreeably shiny.
It was observable, however, that after win.
ning his case for damages against the
Times ho appeared in a magnificent new
suit.
An eastern paper says W. S. Gilbert, the
composer, is one of the most crabbed and
disagreeable Englishmen who ever touched
these shores. He was hero only a few
weeks, but in that time he succeeded in
antagonizind nearly every American with
whom he came in contact, and establish
ing an unequaled reputation for boorish-
ness.
A Swiss savant has made a discovery
which seems almost to reverse known nat
ural laws. Ho reduces milk to a dry pow
der in such a manner that by the addition
of water it at once assumes all its natural
properties. It is claimed that milk in this
form is much better than canned or 'con
densed milk, for one reason ithas no sugar
init.
Tins month brings round tho seventy-
fifth anniversary of the battle of Waterloo.
One thing to be observed in connection
with it is that the historical Waterloo ball
room at Brussels is in the hands of tho
auctioneer. And one thinks of Napoleon,
who was wont to regard himself as tho
"man of destiny." lie and hla works have
gone, f eople may stand in awe of his gen
ius, but they do not love him.
There is in Boston an informal club
composed of a dozen business men who
dine together daily at one of the hotels.
Their own law is an unwritten one that
each one shall shake hands with those al
ready seated at table when he comes in at
the usual hour. Once a man camo in and
took his place without this little ceremony,
and the others rone gravely, walked around
the table, shook hands with the returning
mamKar anrl cArinnAlir vain vvt a r rial
places. '
A conspicuous figure in the procession
at the unveiling of the Lee monument at
Richmond was the venerable. Prof. F. N.
Crouch, the composer of "Kathleen Ma-
vonrncen." He is perhaps nearer ninety
than eighty years of age, yet halo and
hearty. He was arrayed in full uniform of
confederate gray, having coming ou f rom
Baltimore to meet probably the last time
his soldier comrades of the old First How
itzers. His comrades say that no braver
soldier ever fought with the artillery of tho
Army of Northern Virginia.
De Vivo, tho operatic manager, speaking
of a tour he made in 1SC7. relates this breezy
rAnunUpMipn nf Clara Louise Kelloec:
"Miss Kellogg did not make much of & suc
cess. ' She was a slender girl, bashful and
very fond of pies. I remember well on our
first stop for breakfast at the Syracuse de
pot, Bngnoli was vis-a-vis to her, eatiug
chops, eggs, beefsteaks, stewed chicken,
etc.. as he was the greatest eater of all the
singers I ever saw. Seeing Miss Kellogg
eating a piece of pie and drinking a glass
of milk he said to hen Mia cara. you must
eat beefstaks, beefstaks, beefbtaks. chop,
chops, chops, aud drink buouo clarete, oth
erwise you will never be able to sing. You
are too weak. Take my advice (and 1 know
very well that she did take his advice), and
become a good eater too.' "
Don Not Cumlit.
Oen. Jasier Packard, In Neir Albany Tribune.
A man may advocato a just cause and
injure it by talking too much. Oen. 10m
Uennett talks too muth. Ho made a speech
at Indiauapolis a few nights agoou the sub
ject of service pensions. Ho spoko of soruo
persons in tho South who are receiving
pensions under the Mexican war service
pension law. and added: "And yet they
havenothing now for us fellows." Somehow
that does not bound quite right iu face of
tho fact that tho government will pay in
penniors this 3'ear more than a hundred
million dollars, and is granting pcnsioai
uow more rapidly than ever btifoxa