The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-18


has any of the latter while of the Former he
boasts such large stock that he is not afraid to
tackle anybody or anything, ard comes up again,
after having been foored. with as much APP
parent satisfaction as though he had il0ored the
other fellow The latest wrinkle is to have HIM
contest Birmingham. IL he should when
Churchill and Chamberlain lock horns
both beingyoHngsters, both being game, and both
rattling speakers, may be there TO see Lord
Randolph speaks of the Conservative party fire.
quently as a set Of towards, and the Liberals he
invariably characterizes as pack of lmpostors,
Gladstone being the biggest humbug of the lot.
His contempt for the Prime Minister is proven
bal, and the two have SO often come into con-
tact, IN manner that was discredltable to The
youthful asSaant that in the public mind their
attitude toward each other has been for long
time associated with the famous picture of Dig
nifty and 1Inpudence," the insignificant and i'm
pertinent features of Churchill as cOntrasted
with those of Gladstone-so massive and com
posed-giving an extraordinary piquancy to the
comparison. As a specimen of this fast young
gentleman's style. and of the way he has been
handling the Premier during the past few weeks,
give the following extract from recent speech
to great Tory demonstration at BlackpoO:
Gentlemen, we live in an age Of advertise
ments, the age Of Hooway's pills of Colman's
mustard. and of Horuiman's pure tea: and the
policy OF lavish advertisement has been so sue
cessful in commerce that the Liberal party, with
its usual enterprise has adapted it to politics The
Prime Minister is the greatest living master of
the art Of personal political advertisement. Hol-'
loway Coman, and Horniman are not in it
compared with him. Every act of his, whether
it be for the purposes of health or of recreation,
or of religious devotion, is spread before the
eyes of every man, woman and child IN the
United Kingdom on large and garing placards.
For the purposes of an autumn holiday large
Transatlantic steamer is specially engaged, the
Poet Laureate adorns the suite and receives
peerage as his salary and the incidents Of the
voyage are luncheon with the Emperor of Rus
STA and tea with the Queen of Denmark For the
purposes of recreation he has selected the
telling of trees, and may usefully remark
thaths anuseIneI1ts like his politics. are essen
TALLY destructive. Every afternoon the whole
world is invited to assist at the Telling of some
beech, or elm, or oal-the forest laments in order
that Mr. Gladstone may perspire--and fun ac-
counts OF these proceedings are forwarded by
special correspondents to every daily paper on
every recurring morning. For the purposes 'ofre-
igious devotion the advertisements grow larger.
The parish church at Hawarien is insufficient to
contain the thronging nultitudes of fiyeatchers
who flock to hear Mr.. Gladstone read the lessons
for the day, and the humble parishioners are ban
1shed to hospitable non-confornist tahernacles,
IN order that mankind may be present at the
Prime Minister'S rendering of Isaiah or Jere
mah or the Book of Job. This, all this, is the
great ant of advertising, and there can be no
doubt that, ON the grandiose scale adopted by
Mr.. Gladstone it pays"
TRIBULATIoN OF ROYALTY.
From Parliament and political speakers. 1
turn to royalty. The royal family are in trouble
again. To begin with, the Queen has donned
once more the robes of mourning. She has lost
another personal friend. The Marquis of Hert-
ford, whose back was broken by a fall in the
hunting field, was one of the few 'noblemen
whom Victoria took into her confidence. His po-
sltlon as groom in waiting, and afterwards as
Lord Chamberlain, brought him in close contact
md frtII hap 11a7saI
friendship. IT was hardly such an attachment as
SHE seemed to have for John Brown, but IT was
strong, and even teldor, as herpresent grief at
tests. Her Maiesty's situation is highly favora-
ble, at this time, for the indulgence of morbid
sorrow over dead friends, for she is both an in
valid and prisoner, doomed to a life of seclr,
sion no less by her maladies of mind
and body, than by the fear she has
of some injury being done, in these dangerou-
times, to her person. The other member Of the
royal family who is not in a comfortable frame
of mind is the Prince of Wales whom, just now,
the tlynamiters and lunatics seem TO be after.
Two medItated attacks within week makes the
situation rather serious. Lunatics do not al
ways miss their mark, nor do those who profess
the fine art OF anatomizing the human frame by
the use OF nitro glycerine. Consequently it be-
hOOves the Prince to be careful and to surround
his movements as he has not hitherto felt the
necessity of doing, with proper safeguards.
Here, as in the United States, great interest
attaches to the question how the human system
Is dlIecGeu by Une use OF dlcOn0llc UlmuldntS.
Hence the importance of the following In 1910
the United Kingdom Temperance and General
Provident Life Insurance Company commenced
doing buiness solely with totally sustaining life
insurers. But, after Il lapse of seven years, an
important section Of the shareholders succeeded
intcoereing the administrative body to extend
their sphere of operations over all classes of
policies. This WAS DONE but with the provision
that the temperance section should be kept
distinct from the general section and now a
document appears giving the results. For seven
teen years-that is, from 1866 to lSS3-the eX-
pected claims by death in the temperance section
were computed by actuaries to be total of
2,G44, whereas there occurred only 196l-beng a
defeat of the mathematioians by temperance of
about 30 per cent. In the general section for
the same period, the expected claims were taken
as 4,4OS, and the realization came out at ,339
These figures are. strictly reliable, and your
readers can draw their own conclusions
From the attacks made upon it so often of
late Lord Wolseley comes forward to defend the
British army. We have been told that it is dif fiji
cult, and next to impossible to get man to join
it, and that the few mustered in were only poor
scrubs But, unless his lordship fibs out
rageously, this is all wrong. Last year. he in
forms u.s. over $4,000 men enlisted-the largest
number ever enlisted in one year in time of
peace Of these 80, 900, 81 per cent. he says are
over twenty years of age and 20 per cent over
thirty; 80 per cent. five feet seven
inches high: SO per cent over thirty-ive inches
round the chest, and rs per cent. are for over
two years of service-a showing which, he main
tains, will compare favoraby with that of any
army in the world. His only complaint against
the English military forces is he says, that there
are not enough of them. H..
A Reporter Indignantly Refuses a Bride.
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