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12 THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 2G, 1893. THE SUNDAY JOURNAL SUNDAY, MAKCII SO. 1603. "WAMilM.HKN OH1CE-M5 Jb'ourtevuth sr. Telehn Ha. Jinfint ds OfT:co 233 Kdltorlal Booms. 242 ILUMS OF SU11SCJRIFTION. DAILY DT MAIL. Tisl'Torly, one month $ .70 J 'ni'.y wy, t!.riM months. 2.00 ai!y only, one ytar. H.x l'aiiy. mciinlip'.' suiulir, one year KM) fcuiuiay uny, t n : y ar 2.00 Hi.y Fl'KXISHED BY AGENTS. rany ptrwet-k. hy earner ...15 cts hntiU-y, fcicgl copy ." cts lMlii aud tuiivlay, ycr wte, by carrier........ 20 cU WEEKLY. Tcr year $1.00 ICfHfnred 1iate to Clubs. Subscribe with any of our numerous agents or send nb.'cnptmiis to tho JOURNAL NEWSPAPER COMPANY, VSVIAXAVOU3, KD. Terf,r.a sending the Journal through the mails in the United State slumM iut on an eis;ht-pape paper a une-ckst jHwtare ftanip; tn a twelve or i:vU-n-jcce i;ikt aTWo-ci-NT ixjUi.i."' htaiup. rorthjn post age ia usually double these rates. All communications intended for publication in Otis pajirr r.iuf,in order to receive attention, beac , cowponifti by ihe name unit address oj thtrcriter. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: I'A It IS American Ex change in raris, 30 Boulevard tie Carman .. K EW VOIiK Gilsey liouo antl Windsor IIotcL S1!ILADLII!IA-A.P. Kcwble, 3733 Lancaster Itvt-tme. CHICAGO Palmer IIousu. CINCINNATI-J. K. Ilawley & Co.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C T. Peering, northwest corner of Third unl J t Hereon streets. 6T. LOUIS Union News c4. Union Depot. WASHINGTON, D. C.-ltiggs Ilou.se and Ebbitt House. SIXTEEN PAGES If tho new district attorney anil the now marshal desiro to follow in the steps of the administration generally, each must have ason, a brother or a cousin lor an assistant. Those Eastern mugwump editors who have been led to talk of "tho reform clement of tho Indiana Democracy," in connection with the Burke affair, are the victims of a cruel practical joke. There are several hundred patriots in Washington who expected nuditor fillips, consulships and high-up positions who would compromise to-day on a jhnitorship. Tho patriot never strikes. When the lion. Jason Brown stated that Mr. Burke's action on the cocmploye bill was indorsed by the present Demo cratic Senate, he uttered moro truth than in tho sixty speeches ho made dur ing the last campaign. Democrats who havo been in tho presence of Mr. Cleveland during the past ten days aro thoroughly convinced that he is not in need of that very zeal ous and jealous bulldog which an East ern exchange has suggested as his as sistant. It is authoritatively announced that Mr. Blaine left all his papers of a public character in care of Miss Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Mrs. Blaine's cousin, and that sho will, at an early day, set about the task of writing tho biography of the statesman. Marion Crawford, the novelist, says ho is much impressed by the decline of tho drinking habit in this country Hincu liis visit hero ten years ago. It is evi dent from this remark that Mr. Craw ford did not attend tho recent inaugura tion ceremonies at Washington. It has been said by Edward Atkinson, tho statistician, that tho silver crop in tho United States is not worth so much ns tho hen crop. It gives the country much more trouble, since there would be no free-coinage issue but for the pro duction of fifty or sixty million dollars' worth of silver bullion. C03IMANDEU Jewell, of the navy, in a recent address, said that the time had come when war is practically impossible, meaning that the implements of war are How so destructive that no nation can afford to put them ia operation. Never theless, every nation which means to bavo peaco must have a supply of these appliances nnd know how to use them. A few daya since tho chaplain of the Texas House prayed that "tho Lord would open the eyes of those members who allowed tho love of money to be balanced against virtue." Thereupon, several members were angry, and de nounced that official for criticising their motives in his prayers. The chaplain replied that if he was not to pray that tho eyes of members bo opened thero could bo little use in praying. Tho mem ber who remarked that he did not want bis eyes opened doubtless expressed tho views of tho majority. New York reporters followed Carlylo Harris, tho wifo murderer, to tho door of his coll in Sing Sing, and record tho fact that the prisoner was abso lutely unmoved by the proceedings. "So dull was he," says one, "that clerk West lake said afterward, 'That man may be a murderer, but he is a perfect gentlo xnan just tho same.' " This is in harmony with tho assurance given Mr. Harris by nn attache of tho Tombs, that he ought to brace up, for they never hanged a gentleman in Now York yet. Neverthe less, it looks very much as if tho "per fect gentleman" would bo killed by electricity. Probably no one will ever know what was tho fate of the steamship Naronic. She was no ocean tramp, but the latest result of shipbuilders' skill and experience. Sho was systematically divided into compartments, and was equipped with two screws, nn almost certain preventive against being left helpless by the fracturo of a shaft. In ehort, everything that experience could devise to mako tho Naronic strong and seaworthy was employed, and yet sho was lost. Consequently, ship experts, with others, will bo In doubt as to tho causo of her loss. That sho was lost proves that tho ship has not been built that is entirely safe. Emile Zola persistently offers him self as a candidate for admission to tho French Academy whenover thero is a vacancy, and is ns often defeated. Last week ho received hut one vote, the suc cessful aspirant being M. Challemel Lacour. Just now, when tho Panama scandal is such a sore subject with lead ing Frenchmen, perhaps tho fact that Zola had written n lovcI which is al most prophetic in tho remarkable exact ness with which it describes just such a gigantic and fraudulent enterprise makes him ineligible. The similarity in tho imaginary and real speculation ex tends even to the details. Tho "Im mortals" may not care to have among them a man who either knows his fellow-citizens too well or is possessed of supernatural foresight. THE RICH AND THUS HEET0R3. Tho rich man is having an uncommon ly hard time of it in these latter days, if serving as a target for all sorts of re formers has any eflect on his sensibili ties. It is no new thing for him to servo as a point of attack. Sinco it was said, eighteen hundred years ago, that it was easier for a camel to go through tho eye of a needlo than for him to enter the kingdom of God he has not been al lowed to forget that his road was the broad one towards destruction. Solici tude in regard to his condition nnd wel fare has never ceased, but tho atten tions pressed upon him of late aro pro fuse to a degree that must bo somewhat overpowering. If ho reads tho papers ho discovers all sorts of chances for reducing him to the common level of humanity so far as tho possession of cash is con cerned. Tho Nationalist party proposes to take his wealth away from him and give it to tho state. The Populist party thinks it would be bettor to divido it up among the people who have les3. Ho is referred to opprobriously as a "pluto crat," a "monopolist" and a "bloated bondholder," while some have no scruples in calling him a robber, argu ing that no man can come honestly by a million dollars. When ho undertakes a business enterprise, even though it will incidentally inure to the benefit of the community and give employment to hundreds, it is assumed that his motive is wholly selfish and that ho must there fore bo hampered and restricted on every hand lest ho secure undue ad vantage. As if this were not enough, ho is . preached at from the pul pits. Sermonizers find an unfailing text in tho rich man. They are pro foundly impressed with the danger of riches, and they warn the owner there of, with an eloquence that is positively tearful, of tho temptations and perils that surround him. "One of the sad dest sights to a pastor," says one of these r.crmons which happens to have got into print, "is the increasing world liness which often accompanies increas ing prosperity." Is it, then, tho com mon experience of pastors that spiritu ality is tho usual accompaniment of poverty? "Itisof supremeimportance," goes on the preacher, "that this man (meaning tho prosperous man) should be prayed for, and that he pray for him self, that ho cultivato that loveliest and rarest of graceshumility." Humility is undoubtedly a grace, but does it or dinarily belong to the poor man, and if not, why should it not bo of equal im portance to himl Tho truth is, the rich man gets more than his share of attention. The poor man, If ho . bo honest with bimsclf, knows that sundry temptations beset him with which tho possession of money "has nothing to do; that if ho bo not careful ho will bo filled with envy, dis content and malice all because he is not prosperous. Human naturo is pret ty much the same in all sorts and condi tions of men, and all aro sure to have due. proportion of trial and temptation in ono shapo or another. It might be as well to acknowledge frankly that the general sohcitudo in behalf of the rich man is directod more to his money than to him. The saint is rare who can pray that the plutocrat may bo humble and nt tho same time stornly refuse to become a plutocrat himself, bocauso to do" so would endanger his own humil ity. Even the same preacher, who is oppressed by the dangers that surround the wealthy, can only say ho is "almost thankful" that ho is not rich lest richoa in his hands might mean disaster to his fellow-men and ruin to his own soul. Almost, but not quite. Even he would accept a liberal competence So would we all. The Nationalists wish to share tho benefits of wealth; so do the Populists. Every man who decries the possession by oth ers of much money would take it him self if he could. For good uses, of course; oh, to be sure. But perhaps those who havo it now mean to make good use of it. Until tho opposite is certain they should not be too severely condemned. Tho rich man should havo achanco. AN UNNECESSARY DI3PCTE. Tho assertion of Colonel Ingersoll in his address on the character of Abraham Lincoln, to tho effect that ho was a free thinker after, the manner of Voltairo and Paine, challenged emphatic contra diction which was no moro conclusive? than tho Ingersoll declaration. Fortu nately, so much has been written and is known about tho personality of Mr. Lincoln that there need be no contro versy in regard to his religious feelings, Those who havo higher appreciation of that great man than to claim him as an infidel, ns has Ingersoll, or a believer in certain creeds, as has General Callis, of New York, have examined his recorded acts and words. They havo found that Mr. Lincoln was not what is or has been called a professing Christian in the senso that a declaration , of belief in certain tenets is essential. Like 'many men, in their early years, Mr. Lincoln expressed dissent to prevailing creeds. but no irreverent word can bo traced to him or any expression indicating that he did net believe in and accept the fundamental principles of Christianity. In 1831, writing to his half-brother re garding the approaching doath of his father, Mr. Lincoln said: Fsincerely hope father may yet recover his health; but, at all events, tell him to remember to call upon and contide ia our great, and good, fetid merciful Maker, who will not turn away from him in any ex t remit, lie notes the fall of a sparrow, and numbers the hairs of our heads, and ha will not forget the dying man who puts his trust in Him. Say to him that if it be his Jot to go now ho will soon have a joyful meeting with many loved ones gone before, and where the rest of us. through the help of God, hope ere long to join them. So sincere a man as was Abraham Lincoln would not havo expressed so full a belief in a personal God if ho bad not entertained such a conviction. In several of his speeches in tho Douglas campaign ho declared that "slavery was a monstrous sin in the sight of a jnstand compassionate God." In 18C0, when he learned that most of the cler gymen of Springfield were opposed to his election, he exclaimed: "I am not a Christian man. God knows I want to be one. I have read tho Bible ever sinco I sat on my mother's knee. Here is the New Testament which I carry with me. Its teachings are all for lib erty. These ministers know that I am for freedom and my opponents are for slavery. And yet with that book in their hands they are going to vote against me. I know thero is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I know that I am right, be cause liberty is right. Jesus Cbriot teaches it, and Christ is God. Douglas doesn't euro whether slavery is voted up or down; but God cares, hu manity cares, and I care." When ho left his homo to assume the presidency Mr. Lincoln addressed his friends and neighbors as follows: I co to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God who assisted him shall be with nnd aid me, I must fail: but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected nun shall guide and support me, I shall succeed. Let us all pray that the God of our fathers may not forsake us now. To him 1 commend you all, aud ask with equal sincerity and faith that you will invoke liis wisdom ana guidance for ma. After tho battle of Antiotam ho called a meeting of his Cabinet to present to them tlie Emancipation Proclamation, and said: I have made a vow a covenant thit if God would give us victory in battle I would consider it an indication of the divine will, and that it would he my duty to move forward with emancipation. - God has decided in favor of tho slaves. Columns could bo filled with incidents showing tho implicit confidence Abra ham Lincoln reposed in a Providence who controlled events for wise and beneficent purposes, but if one desires to read a single paper which will disprove tho charge that ho was a freethinker, in tho Ingersoll sense, ho can lead that most remarkable of stato papers, President Lincoln's second inaugural. The fea ture which makes it ono of the foremost official papers of tho ago is its deeply religious tone. Abraham Lincoln may not have troubled himself about dogmas, but no man was ever moro devout in his reli ance upon the great power which con trols human acts and events, or whoso conduct was moro thoroughly in har mony with the truths of tho Sermon on tho Mount. THE PREVENTION OF OHIUE - RESCUING CHILDREN. i Tho question of what to do with chil dren who are being brought rp in an atmosphere of vice'and crime is ono of tho most, important and perplexing of social problems. It resolves itself into two other questions', viz.: What the State has a right to do, and how it may best exerciee tho right so as to sccuro tho best results. It needs no argument to. prove that the provention of crimo is far mtore sensible and humane than its punish ment. In all cases prevention is better than enre. and in a very lartro nronor- tionof criminal cases punishment. does not cure. Prevention does not .merely strike at the root of tho disease, but it seeks to forestall the disease itself. Prisons and reformatory schools are necessary institutions, and useful in their way, but at best they aim only nt punishment or reformation. -; Society has an undoubted right to pro tect itself against crimo in whatever way it may seem best. Since tho begin ning of human government it has sought to do this in various ways. For a long time and until comparatively re cent years tho treatment of criminals was in tho highest degree not only pun itive, but vindictive. t For a long time there was littio or no effort to prevent crime or reform criminals. Now theso aro tho ruling ideas. Hand in hand with them goes the idea that society has a right to protect itself against crifiioin every possible way. Ono of tho best protectivo methods is provention. It follows that society, in other words tho State, has a right to adopt and enforce t any measures it may deem best for the prevention of crimo. The right to pun ish includes tho right to prevent. If the State may spend money to convict a man of crime and to imprison him for a term of years or for life, it may spend money to prevent him from becoming a criminal. In this case prevention is not only better than cure, but it is easier. cheaper, and far moro humane. ' In every largo city there aro many children who are growing up in an at mosphere of vice and crime. There are children who aro reared from infancy amid surroundings containing every conceivable clement of degradation, do- pravity and vice. Of such children, it has been said "they begin life with in herited physical and moral taint. They imbibe impurity and whisky with their mothers' milk. The first words to which their ears aro accdstomed are blasphemous and obscene. Tho foul air which they breathe is mado fouler by tho infamous orgies of which they are tho involuntary witnesses. All the evil within them is dovelopod with marvel ous rapidity. With wits sharpened by the daily 6trugcle for existence, they becomo apt pupils in every species of wickedness. Tender only in years, be fore they havo reached their teens they are known to tho polico ns 'toughs.'" This is tho class from which the ranks of crimo are recruited. Every policeman in Indianapolis knows of localities which are nurseries of crime, and scores of children who aro growing up to bo criminals as inevitably as water runs down hill. There is an ever increasing host of such children in tho United States. Comparatively innocentto-day, they are tho desperate and hardened criminals of twenty or thirty years hence. To-day they can be saved; twenty-fivo years henco they will bo past all hope or cure. To-day tho Stato can protect itself against them by edu cating and caring for them; twenty-five or thirty years hence it can only protect itself against them by making war on them and by Imprisoning or hanging them. The conclusion is inevitable that tho Stato has a right to adopt any measures of protection which it deems wise and suitable to the case. In tho naturo of the case such measures must be compulsory, because when circum stances require it the State must assert the right of removing children from parents or guardians whoso control or custody threatens to make criminals of them orrender them unfit to becomo use ful members of society. Care should be taken not wantonly or needlessly to in terfere with the parental relation, but when the circumstances require it the Stato should not hesitate to assert its authority. This principle lies at the foundation of the law in this State establishing boards of children's guardians, and it finds expression in Michigan and Min nesota in a different form. Those States have what is called tho "Stato school" system. Under this system the Stato asserts and exercises the right of taking possession of every child who is dependent, neglected or abused, or whoso parents are not deemed fit to have the care of them. Under certain forms of law such children aro sent to tho State school, where they nre edu cated and provided with a temporary homo until such time as they can bo provided with a permanent one. The school is conducted much like a reform school, except that the element of pun ishment and the idea of disgrace are not connected with it. The school plant in Minnesota cost about $150,000 and the cost of running it is less than $25,000 a year. It is doing a great work in res cuing young children from tho streets and from vicious surroundings and pre paring them to become useful citizens. Every State ought to hav such a law and such a school. Eventually every State will havo to resort to this system. The punishment of crime will not pre vent its increase. It will bo necessary to adopt, also, vigorous preventive measures. Under the present system crime is increasing faster than popula tion. It must bo attacked at the foun tain head. Tho nurseries of crimo must be broken up. The sources of supply for tho criminal ranks must bo cut off. The children must be saved. The trial that is now going on at La fayette grows out of conditions for which thero can be no valid defense. There can be no excuse for tho rioters. If discovered, they should bo punished to the extent of the law. But it would bo unjust to hold the Catholic clergy, in any sense, responsible for the conduct of tho rioters, any more than to main tain that the Protestant clergy of Massa chusetts should have been held respon sible for the burning of a Catholic con vent near Boston forty years ago. And in this connection it should be said that thoso people iu Lafayette or elsewhere, however well meaning, are not entirely beyond censuro for pursuing a policy which is designed to keep alive an un necessary and harmful enmity between tho two wings of tho Christian Church, Protestant and Catholic. They cannot , point to an act of controlling Catholic clergymen which is hostile to any insti tution of the. country. Years they might have done so, but not recently. There aro alleged Protestants whose religion consists iu prejudice against and 'hatred of Catholics, and vice versa; but the number is small and growing smaller. No good can come to any cause in em ploying an ex-Catholic priest to go about the country and, with abusive and even vile speech, assail tho Catho lic Church. The right is not denied, but no more good can come from it than from tho preaching of Sam Small. When Catholic or Protestant lead ers assail any institution of popular government, the people will bo quick to find it out. Fortunately, there Is not tho slightest evidence necessary to con vince fair-minded and intelligent people that either wish to do so. Both churches are great moral forces, and both are do ing moro than all other human instru mentalities to relievo 1m man suffering and to elevate humanity. The spring number of the Indianapolis quarterly. Modern Art, fulfills the promise, of the first issue and is creditable to all concerned iu its making. The number is artistic throughout, its illustrations, letter press and typographical features being in entire harmony and of an order of merit not often reached even in more pretentious pub lications of this class. If a lanltmaybo found it is with the defective drawing, or possibly the printing, of two or three head and tail pieces. The most of these and the initial letters are excellent, however. The frontispiece is a photogravure from Bos eeth's painting, "Beata Beatrix," now in possession of Charles L. Hutchinson. Chi cago. A full-page illustration is from a pen andink sketch by Forsyth. Mr. J.M. Howies, the editor, has some imtes cn Mr. Hutchin son's collection. Louis H. Gibson has a paper on "Decorative Sculpture' and Katharine Ball discusses Prang's system of color. The literary gem of the number is a poem by Meredith Nicholson, entitled "Melpomene."' It is a poem of clasuio finiBb, with rather an unusual form of stanza and a haunting rhythm in the lines. Mr. Nicholson's name is appearing fre quently, of late, in Eastern publications, and his work shows a care and thought that promises well for his future. Tun Illinois woman who wants a divorce becauso her husband's first wife's ghost hangs about the premises and bothers her oflers something new in the psychical line. If this is a precedent, and the ghosts of first wives find it possible to establish com munication with their successors, every last one of them will bo on hand without waiting for an invitation, thereby greatly discouraging second marriages. Thr "Barn's Horn" has cbanyed the style of its head, and. instead of tbe unique de sign representing a combination of horns, cow presents a plain, commonplace letter. Tho original head was an ingenious thing, and helped to give the paper its peculiar individuality. BUUBLES IN THE AHL III Status. Sarcastic Citizen I suppose you are just dying for good, honest work, eh Weary Watkms-Well, I ain't llvin fer it, sure. Some IHCTerftnea. There is not much similarity between our ways of earning a livelihood," said the dentist to the paint manufacturer. 4No," admitted ths manufacturer, "there Is not. I grind colors, while you cull grinders. From a llutlne Standpoint. Guest Who is that man who lft Just nowt I mean the ono that vraa insisting so loudly that none but clean men should bo permitted to hold olllco. notel Clerk no runs a Turkish bath establish ment. One Problem Solved. Mrs. Eastern Why do you persons wear such extravagantly largo hats, may I ask! Alkali Ike Fer to keep any feller from loot In over our shoulder luto a feller's hand when he is settin in a poker game, mum. 8 abet Th Hund f Fate, By the Author of "Violet lie rru., Uow he loved her! Wildly; madly. Yfcttothe struggling poet she was as unat tainable as the stars, as far out of reach as ter rapin and champagne. Alone in his little hall bedroom, tbe poet bowed liis head upon his phapcly, pallid hand. ,4I dara not tell her my love," he groaned. "Vet, stay!" A thought had struck him. Struck him with such force that for a moment his brain reeled from the concussion. "Ha, La!" he shrieked in ecstasy. The very thing! She must; she shall know the love I bear for her." And with thanks to the niue, he seized his facile pea he always used the facilo brand and spurred by the resitles3 inspiration of love, bo dashed off la . burning verses the adoration which possessed his soul. Again he paused. 'Laro I send them to herl" he asked himself, and deep in his heart ho was forced to admit that he dared not "I will send them to the fcilautury," said he, still communing with himself. 'Sbe told me tbat her pa was a regular subscriber." And thus the deed was done. Six weeks later he received a note Ifom ths publish ers of the Slautury, to the effect that hla poem had been accepted and would appear ia due time. w m m Twenty-;hreo years had ilown away twenty three years with their burden of joys and sor rows, popular sonps and Presidential elections. Kings had died and nations had been born. Crin oline had tilled the horizon for a brief period and had vanished. Mrs. Mario Figgins, relict of the late John Flggins, sat in her boudoir, reading, with Hushed cheek and, moistened eye, a dainty little poem ia the current Slantury, entitled To Marie," and signed by Adolbert 8pragg9. "At Home, Tuesday, 19. "My Dear Mr. Bpraggs: I shall be at home this evening! Will you call? "Marie Figgins." "Who In the world is Mary FigginsI" asked the poet of himself, when he received tho fore going highly unconventional missive. "Oh, yes, I remember. Queer; but I had entirely forgotten her." r ; "j:r Mrs. Figgins-" "Call mo Marie. I knew those verses were meant for me the minute 1 saw them. Weren't they dear!" "Why yes; but that was tweat,, "Say no more. I know tbat you love me." And sho fell impulsively Into his arms. Overheard at tho Chromo-LItcrary Club two weeks later: "How did that tiresome Flggins widow suc ceed in marrying so soulful a man as Adelbert Spraggsl he is ten years his senior at tho least" "Indeed, 1 do not know." TOPICS OF CCKUENT l.NTEUEST. The Michigan City (Ind.) Disoatch says there are several persons who would like to bo appointed keeper of the lighthouse at that place, but that it is not likely a change will be made. The present incum bent is Miss Colfax. She was appointed by President Lincoln, thirty-two years ago, and has held tho position ever since, giving perfect satisfaction to the government and to lake manners. The Bureau of Statistics at Washington hasreceutly published a statement show ing the total eXpeUESS of tUe covernmiint per capita, each year since 1872. The state ment sljows that, with the exception of the pensions item,athe ex censes of the gov ernment were less'per capita in 1&)2 than they were in 1S72. in other words, the per cent, of increase in the expenses of the gov ernment duriug the last twenty years, ex cept the item of pensious, has been consid erable less thau the per cent, of increase in population. Sinck Mrs. Besant's return to London she has delivered a lecture giving her im pressions of America. "I traveled from ex treme West to extreme East," 6he said, "and I saw no separation of class from class, as there is iu England. In one place a conductor, who came to collect my fare, sat by tuy side and expressed his pleasure at seeing me. Fancy that happening in this country." It-will strike tbe average American as very funny that Mrs. Besant should expect to find a railroad conductor a shrinking, modest person. In this coun try there is nobody above him, except, per haps, the hotel clerk. Mr. GakdixkrC. Sims, world's fair com missioner for Khode Island, informs the public tbat though it is the smallest State in the Union it has tho largest population to the square acre and the largest amount of money per capita in its savings banks. Providence ranks as the second wealthiest city in tho Union, per capita. Uoston beiug the wealthiest. Khode Island leads the world in its fishing industries. The acre age of Narragansett bay, together with its tributaries, iaiarmore productive, from a fiuancial point of view, than the same acre age of land anywhere on the continent would be lor food-raising purposes. The city of Providence turns out two tons of manufactured jewelry every day and an immense quantity of cotton goods and other manufactures. Although a little State, hhode Island keeps up with tbe pro cession. A dispatch from Easton, Md.. says the Hon. Frederick Douglass, ia there negoti ating for the purchase of "The Villa," one ot the mot beautiful and valuable estates in the county of Talbot. Mr. Douglass was born in that county, and it seems he has an ambition to own an estate and pass the re mainder of his days in tho county where ho once lived a fdavo and from whence he fled to find freedom and become a man. No more laudable ambition could be con ceived, and, under tho oirenmstances, it is a very natural one. It would be the very romance of history, a wonderful illustration of God's dealings with men, if the former slave, once scourged by his white master, driven from his native coun ty, a lugitive on th face of the earth and for a long time buffeted by hard fortune, but sailing now and fur maDy years past in fair waters, should go back at last to his old home and. becomo the owner of one cf its most beautiful estate there to pass the rest of his days, full of years and of honors, in peace and quiet That would be a fitting tinale to one of tho most interest ing and remarkable careers recorded in history. Tin: Governor of Pennsylvania has issued a proclamation designating April 15 and 29 as Arbor days, and requssting the people to observe one or tbe other by tree plant ing. After speaking of the rapid destruc tion and disappearance of native forests and the usefulness of tree growinir, he says: Let the people lay aside lor a season the habit ual activities of the day and devote sullicient time thereof to plant forest, fruit or orna mental trees along the public highways and streams. In private and public parks, about the Miullc schooinouses ana on ti.e college grounds, n gardens nnd on the farms, thus promoting the pleasure, prortt and prosperity of the people of the State, providing protection against flood and storms, securing health aud eomrort, lucrealug that which is beautiful and pleaslug to the eye, comforting to physical life and elevating to the mind and heart, and, by asiMclatlnus and mt-et-lugs, excite publlo interest and givo encourage ment to this moat commendable work. Indiana has not made quite as much Progress in the destruction of her forests as 'einylv&nia has, but they aro going very fast, and it is not too soon toconsider ways aud means of restoring thero. Arbor day is a commendable institution and we should like to 6ee it established in this State. Tun curiosities of divorce law have bad a singular illustration in the deoision of an Omaha judge, who holds that a divorce is a necessary of life for which a woman's husband is liable. The case was this: Mrs. A. brought suit for a divorce. The papers were tiled, issue jo.ned, aud the decree was almost in sight, when the plaintiff became reconciled to her husband and notified her lawyer to dismiss the salt. Of coarse, ho bad to do so. but he at once msde out a bill of ZYJ0 for his services. Mrs. A. refused to pay it, on the ground that she had uot got a divorce. Then tho lawyer brought suit ftgsmst her husband. The lattcr's lawyer moved for a nonsuit, on the groand that ft husband is not compelled to pay the debts of his wife except for the necessaries of life. Ho argued that it was absurd to put divorces on a par with clothing or pro visions. The plaintitf maintaiud that there are times when a divorce is an abso lute necessity of life, and when a woman would rather have it tbtn food. The court took this view and gave judgment aaainst the husband for the full amount of the lawyer's lee. Perhaps that will cause an other domestio lupturo. MUltAKY N0TKS. Sir M. E. Gkaxt-Duit if writing a mono graph on Kenan, with whom he was inti mately acquainted .for over thirty-three years. "Many Intentions," Mr. Kipling's new book, now on tho Appleton press, will con tain various stories which have already ap peared in periodicals, but it will also con tain divers entirely new ones never before published. Fou the story, 'The Isle of Voices," now running in the National Observer, Mr. 1L L. Stevenson is said to have been paid at the rate of 50 per thousand wordswhich goes to prove that it is more proti table to be a successful novelist than an unsuccess ful poet Flammarion, the astronomer, has been, writing for "The Cosmopolitan" a story which begins in the April number and is a curious mixture of exciting sensation and scientific theory. It is called 'Omega: The End of the World" a title which in dicates sufficiently its unusual character. Wilkik Colllns's method of composi tion as recently described by his publisher was this: . First he draf tod a synopsis of a novel, then ho filled it out, then he finally went over tbe manuscript to make altera tions and additions. Theso were many, so Mr. Collins bad the copy typewritten for the printers. He had much trouble in find ing titles for his stories. "The Making of a Man," by the Kev. Dr. J. W. Lee. is enjoying the unusual distinc tion of being translated into Japanese. Tho work is being done at the instigation of American missionaries, who say that the book is particularly well adapted to the cultivated Japanese mind, to which the physical, moral and intellectual develop ment of man is an absorbing subject. Of the new three-volume edition of that classic romuce, "Lorna Doone," the Lon don Daily News says: "After foar-and- twenty years' existence, that delightful novel. 'Lorna Doone has returned, in a new edition just published by Messrs. Sampson Low to the original three-volume form. The fact is said, and no doubt cor rectly said, to be entirely unprecedented. Mit. Bi:xj. K. Tuck Kit, of New York, will publish immediately Emile Zola's latest story, "Modern Marriage," The author takes fourtypioal marriages one from the nobility, one from tho bourgeoisie, one from the small shop-keeping class, and one from the working people and describes in e:ich case the origin of the marriage, its motive, its consummation, and its results. Ciiari.rsScribnkk'5 Sons are preparing a novel and interesting contribution to the world's fair in the form of an "Exhibition Number" of Scribner's Magarine, to be pub lished simultaneously with the opening of the exposition at Chicago. They have planned to make it as tine an example of nn American magazine as cau be prodnoed by a house to whom the best literarr and artistic resources are open. It is not pro posed that tho text shall relate chiefly to the fair, but on the contrary, the leading writers and artists havo been asked to con tribute to the number what they them selves think will bpstrepreaent them. Tho fages of text and illustration will be larae y increased, and the appearance of the number is likely to be looked for with eagerness by all readers interested in tho work of American magazines. AliOOT f0PLE AND THINGS. Mnsj astor is said to never pay less than $5 for a pair of shoes. Henky George declares that Moses was a single tax apostle, but that be never 60 far forgot himself as to be a mugwump. Mrs. Kobert Louis Stevenson ia a portly, gray-haired woman, who was a grandmother when she married her second husband. Mrs. Henry Austin, the last survivor of the brothers and sisters of Charles Dickens, died in England two weeks ago at the age of 6eveuty-eighr, President Cleveland doesn't need to subscribe to any newspapers. A- wagon load of marked copies is said to reach, the White Bouse every day. Mrs. Maria Barnard Smith is the so prano of a Boston church choir, and has a salary of 82,500 a year. Myron Whitney has a salary of S3.00U as bass in tho same choir. The trustees of the Normal College of New York have decided tbat the executive head of tbe institution shall be called the Woman Superintendent," not the "Lady Superintendent," as had been proposed. Mrs. Frank Class, of Morristown (known better as Miss Jennie Smith), is tho champion wing shot of New Jersey. She is twenty-two years old, live feet two inches high, and weighs lo5 pounds. She handles a gun gracefully as well as skill fully. During her visit to Florence, Queen Vic toria will occupy the Villa Palmieri, where Boccaccio once lived. It will relieve the British matron to know that this is not tho villa wbere Boccaccio's ladies assembled to relate their unique stories. That historic residence was situated near Fiesole. Tiik acting chairman of the Keichstag is not quite a success. Ho fails to keep good order, and gets himself laughed at. as last ween when a Deputy called the speech of another member "sheer stupidity," and tho chairman gravely announced: "in this Jlonso acts of sheer stupidity are never committed." " Bismarck says that when we read a med ical book we fancy we have all the mala dies it describes. But when we read a book on morals wo at once disoover that our neighbors have all the faults it pointu out "In the tete-a-tete." ho remarked on anulbcr occasion, "a woman speaks aloud to a man who is indiflereut to her. low to the man sho is near loving, aud keeps si lence with tbe man she loves. The newspapers of Rome publish the fol lowing list of tbe contributions to the Peter's pence during ISM: Austria, 1,503,003 francs; England and Scotland. l,00,000s Ireland. 10.GC0; Germany. .0,0CK; Italy, 2C0.000; France. 225.000; Argentine Kepublio and Uruguay. 5"0.lJO; Mexico. 00,ouo: other American republics, JOO.Otf); Spain. ISC.OuO; Turkey, 50,0-4); Brazil, lOO.COv1; Belgium. 1OU.UO0; a total of 4,565,000 fraucs nearly $1,000,000. Herbert Spencer once began a same of billiards at the club with a young man. The philosopher, started the ivories, and left them in a good position. Then the young fellow, who was an expert ran out the game without allowing another shot to his upponcnt. The philosopher took his hat. but before going he said: "Sir. mod erate proficiency in such sport is a sign of good education; such mastership, however, as you exhibit is the proof of an ill-spent youth." Mrs. Kate Douglas Wig gin, though best known to the public for her clover stories of child life, has probably done as much as any other woman in this country for tbe advancement of the kindergarten, and the hundreds of such schools now in existence on the Pactlio coast ara the oat growth of the free kindergarten she estab lished in Sau Francisco a number of years ago. As a lecturer she is very graceful and liuent, and in private lifo she is young woman of most attractive personality. A GEORGIA hntlNO FORM. In spring's soft lap old winter at, With ley arms he squeezed her; lie frlztod her bangs and manhed her hat, " And thus the tyraat teased her. Tbe cranes tie w north on rapid wing. The snakes crawltnl out ia clover. The birds timed up their voice to sini? - A cheerful lay for U rover. Atlanta CocsUtuUca