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normal length he showed his disregard of
conventionality. for in doing 50 he deied
the precedent established by List and fol-
lowed by Rubenstein and Paderewskt.
Bishop Coke told his congregation in Buff
falo last Sunday that when he visited Eng
land a number of years ago drunkenness
was a fashionable vice there. but on the
occasion OF his last visit he saw very little
OF 1t. The change struck him as astonishing.
Mr.. c. Z. Hite, one OF the instructors in
biology at the University of Pennsylvania,
is organizing a party OF students for an ex-
petition TO Labrador next summer. The OBJ
jective point will be the great falls which
have been seen by only two parties or white
men.
Mrs. Elliott, of Delaware county. New
York. started down a flight of stairs with
a lighted lamp in each hand and the pam
cake turner she had been using held in her
mouth. She fell. the handle OF the nipple
ment was driven through her neck and
the blade had TO be cut OF before the rest
OF it could be pulled out. And she is recover
ing.
In one of the best known -gymnasiums
for women in this country the resident ply
sician said in a recent interview: Dust is
almost as much out Of place here as 1t
would be in the dissecting room. I am eagle
eyed for It's appearance, and / am proud 10
say that the furniture is
is, with a cloth. To the best Of my knowl-
edge and belief a feather buster has never
u ACA0
Manager Daniel Frohinan was visited not
long ago by a number of temperance wom-
en-, who wanted him to cut out a convivial
scene in a play then running at bis theater.
When he told them that he would be glad
TO accommodate them, but to cut out the
scene would ruin the play and cost him a
large sum of money, they looked him In the
face and said that they knew that, but that
they were not trying to save plays but to
save souls.
A clay model of the statue of Daniel Web
ster, which is to be placed in the national
gallery at Washington by the State of New
Hampshire. has been completed at Con-
cord. Men who personally knew the subject
say that II is a wonderful reproduction Of
form and feature, the likeness of the face
10 the original being especially and striking
~ faithful. The plaster figure is six feet
IN neight, but it is understood that the State
authorities desire to have 1t increased a
Ioot In the completed statue.
An old man who for many years has been
a beGgar on the streets of Auzerre, France,
existing on scraps of food which he begged
from door to door. died a few days ago of
cold and hunger. In an old trunk in his mis-
cradle lodgings were found bonds to the
value of more than a million francs. and In
the cellar, covered by heaps of rubbish.
more than four hundred bottles of wine of
the vintage of 1890. The old miser had in
herited the wine from his family, and lived
TO the age of eighty-ive years without open-
ing a single bottle.
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sound business judgment. But hfs policy
does not bind his SUCCESSORS, and the prin-
ciple is so clearly for the public rood, so
just In purpose and practical I'm its effect.
that II should be embodied in law and be
thereby securely enforced until repealed,
which il never would be. Nor is the bill
Tor the benefit of the carriers alone; IL
would be an advantage TO them OF course,
IN so far as they are capabie and faithful.
but no farther. and the public has a high
ana lasting interest in promoting efficiency
ana ndelity In this body OF public servants,
wnlch more than any others have 10 do
with our daily business
II is enough to make any honorable Amer
lcan blush 10 reflect on the cowardly apd
mean conduct OF partisan postmasters
against which the letter carriers seek pro-
lection. In different States, in large cities
anu In small, postmasters have deliberately
invented lying charges against carriers or
the opposite party from their own, and on
these recommended their removal. In most
cases !. Is impossible for the department.
fairly TO investigate these charges with the
machinery at its command, and from con-
slderationS OF discipline each officer is ac-
tually given control OF the force under him
until he is shown to be untitled for such
control. This results not only in injustice
10 the carriers, but in injury TO the SER
vice, In decentralization OF the postmasters.
and, worst OF all, in the degradation OF
politics. 1t is a part OF the sordid and cor
rupting spoils system which has done so
much to pollute and pervert our political
life. The civil-service law does not fully
meet the case. though its spirit and pur-
pose are violated by such conduct The
proposed bill gives adequate means 10 carry
out the plrit and purpose of the civil-servfce
law, and. as we have said. IL ought 10 pass.
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SHREDS AND PATCHES.

The machinery of my administration
needs oiling .-Pittsburg Dispatch.
OF course, a bright girl ought to have a
spark of humor.-Lowell Courier.
A turning point in woman's life: Meeting
another with a new bonnet.-Truth
If angels had to live with some men
there would probably be more fallen ones.
Rams Horn.
A woman never has a valise so large
that 1T can be closed without squeezing.
Galveston News.
Business is business unless the customer
happens to be a lady. in which case it be-
comes strategy.-Oil City Blizzard.
Good resolutions may make good pave
ments, but something more is needed for
keeping them clean.-Chicago Tribune.
The narrowness of the Democratic ma
jority in the Senate may prove the saliva
ton of American industry.-Boston Jour-
nal.
Jagson says his neighbours daughter, who
is learning the piano. cannot be accused of
fraudulent practice-it's all sound.-Elmira
Gazette.
When / reflect upon the number of dis
agreeable people who / know have gone to
a better world, / am moved to lead a
different hfe.-Mark Twain.
Editor Stead is beginning to realize that
ne assumed a ~stupendous job when he un-
dertook to reform the whole West.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
While all doctors bills are big enough,
the man who has to go to a throat spe-
cialist Is more than ever liable to get il
In the neck.-Buffalo Courier.
1t has not been found necessary to shovel
a path through the snow to the White
House door for the ccommodation of New
York Democrats.-New York Mail and Ex-
press.
Miss Hevviswell asked me to CALL" said
Cholly, with a delightful grin. did she?"
said his unkind friend. "She told me yes
terday she was going to be very careful TO
avoid all pleasure during Lent."-Washing-
ton Star.
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ChiIds Was Happy.

harper > "tchly.
If there were more men in the world like
the late George w. Childs the old saw about
being virtuous and you will be happy would
gain increased credit Mr.. Childs was to all
appearances q very happy man pretty much
all his life, and apparently. also. the chief
reason he was so persistently happy was
that he was so lncorrigibly %virtuous. That
Is simply to say, that he got his happiness
not by novel and original methods, but ac-
cording TO the well-known rules laid down
10 that end and universally familiar. He
got out of life what he could get, and was
satisfied with that To be sure, II was q
good deal, particularly In the detail OF
money. He got a great deal of money: But
1t was his sanity, combined with good for
tune, that brought him that. lie did not get
rich by spectacular operations, but by do
ing faithfully and shrewdly the thing thai
was at hand, and grasping the opportunity
when 1t offered. Opportunity is as common
as the mud in the streets, and the man who
can see il and grasp il is just about as
scarce as the man who can keep the streets
clean.
It was just SO about the use that Mr..
Childs made or his money. Every one knows
that the way 70 be happy Is to promote the
happiness OF other people. That Is no secret,
hut II is an axiom the very familiarity OF
which makes for its neglect. Mr.. Childs
put il to regular and continuous applica-
ton. He drew happiness out OF the money
he gave away just as directly as many
other rich men draw interest on the capital
they hoard. To follow his career makes sue
cess seem easy and life a simple thing. but
every one has not the genius OF common
sense which Is SO especially invaluable in
teaching one what not 10 attempt.
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AN OLD QUESTION ANSWERED..

The Social Economist. published in New
York and edited by George Gunton, who,
if he did spend his early years in a cotton
mill. is one Of the best informed of those
who are discussing economic questions.
contains an article which answers the Oft
repeated question, why can free-trade
England compete with protective France
and Germany and pay higher wages?' 1t
can be said that England has lost a large
part Of the home market In which hand
production or where the machinery is
equally effective in the two countries. For
instance, Great Britain has lost it's silk
industry, and, very largely, such indus
cloths are sent to France to be finished
where labor is cheaper.
The Social Economist says that the rea-
son Why Great Britain does not need pro-
lection against France is because she has
better machinery than France, and that
machinery she secured under a highly pro-
tective regime. having a monopoly of the
factory system. 1t is shown conclusiveiy
that if France had machinery equal to
that of Great Britain, England would need
protection or yield the field to France.
Mulhall, the British statistician. is quoted
in his History Of Prices as saying that
productive energy costs II cents per 1000
feet tons In Great Britain, while on the
European continent it costs q cents. There
upon Mr.. Mulhall draws the following in
ference:
This advantage enables us, as far as Ia
Dor is concerned, to undersell continental
nations by II per cent, although our work.
mems wages are almost double.
Assuming the. correctness of the statis-
tics of Mr.. Mulhall. and the conclusion de-
rived therefrom. the Social Economist says:
Now it is exactly because England's ma
chinery Is substantially the same as ours
that her low wages enable her to undersell
US. If our machinery was as much better
than England's as England's machinery is
better than that Of France, We should be
as impregnable against the English COM
petition as England is against French COM
petition. 1t is not against the low-paid
land labor, but against low-paid hand Ia
Dor with highly developed machinery that
we need protection. That is why England
is a more serious competitor 10 America
than any other country, Notwithstanding
her wages are the highest In Europe.
The free-trade organs which have been
asking the question, why can England.
paying higher wages, compete with France
and Germany" and which they will con-
tinue to ask as a sort of knock-down argu-
ment, will ignore the foregoing explanation,
but the answer is conclusive. The better
the machinery the larger the amount of
wealth can be wrung from the elements of
nature, and the larger the share Of that
wealth the workmen secure.
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THE VIEWS OF A CONVERTED CON-
FEDERATE.

One Of the most notable speeches at the
recent meeting of the Ohio Republican
League at Columbus was that of Major
Hanson, a Georgian and ex-confederate.
He was introduced as "a converted confed-
crate and judging from his speech he is
soundly converted. His speech was devoted
to showing that in allying itself with the
party of free trade the South was standing
In it's own light. Speaking as a native
Southerner, he recognized the influences
which had conspired to make the South the
home of free trade and which still made it
'solid" for the Democratic party, but he
believed the time was coming when the
eyes of the Southern people would be opened
TO their true interests and when they would
throw off the shackles that held them in
slavery 10 the past The speaker traced the
growth Of free-trade sentiment In the South
back to a period long before the war. and
found 1t to be rooted In self-interest and
hatred Of the North. He said:
1t is doubtful. If in the history Of time. an
instance can be found where a people were
more blindly devoted to an evil institution.
or guarded 1t with the care with which
Southern men devoted themselves to the
defense and protection OF slavery. From
the necessities of slavery, W. were an agri-
cultural people. while New England was
the manufacturing center of the Union, as
well as the Notified Of abolitionism. South
ern planters. who were Shareholders, were
for the benefit OF New England manu-
facturers. who were abolitionists. They OPP
posed !, S.ss P n9isstl and Sf fSrtser fhey fnS@ 4 that mat
hated New England for IT'S opposition to
slavery and desired to take. from her the
benefits derived from protection.
This presentation of the subject is not
rev. and yet IL is well enough to be re-
minded and 10 have the reminder come from
a native Southerner. that Southern opposi-
ton to protection is largely a matter Of
tradition and prejudice.
Major Hanson said the three great errors
of Southern history had been slavery, free
trade and secession. The result OF the war
had buried slavery and secession. and it
would have been a happy thing if free
trade had been buried in the same grave.
The first two years after the Harrison adj
ministration had been the most prosperous
the South had ever known. Real estate
In our towns ana cltles advanced. the prices
Of farm and went up, labor was we'll paid
and fully Employed; the volume of trade
increased. and. looking to a future full of
hope. our people felt throbblngs of a new
life, and went forward with faith in the
accomplishment OF a destiny which they
had long felt that the future had in store
for them" The South was prosperous In
spite OF itself. II had asked for a stone and
it got bread. Instead OF free trade. for
which its people voted. 1t got protection and
prosperity. Then came the campaign OF
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"PERNICIous ACTIVITY
A Rule Mr.. Cleveland Has Not Been
Observing Lately.
Executive Mansion.

Philadelphia Press.
On July IA, 1886, President Cleveland took
his pen In hand 10 say the following few
words:
Executive Mansion.
washington. July II. 1856.
ITO the Heads of Departments in the Serv-
ice OF the General Government:
Il deem this a proper time TO especially
warn al suD9ruinates IN 5ae sevesaI aeo
general government against the use of their
official positions in attempting to control
fee holders are the agents OF the people
not their masters. Not only Is their time
and labor due to the government; but they
action. as well as In the discharge of their
official duty. offending, by a display OF OBJ
trusive partisanship their neighbors who
have relations with them as public off,
Gals. They should also constantly remem-
Der that their party friends, from whom
invested them with the power OF arbitrarily
managing their political, affairs. They have
no right, as Office holders, TO dictate the
political action of their party associates
or to throttle freedom of action within
party lines by methods and practices which
pose of party organization. The influence
of federal office holders should not be felt
meetings and nominating Conventions The
use by these officials of their positions TO
compass their selection as delegates TO po-
litical conventions Is indecent and unfair,
and proper regard for the proprieties OF
official place will also prevent their assum-
Ing the active COIQuCI OI DOllllCdi air
paigns. Individual interest and activity In
political affairs are by no means con-
demned. Office holders are neither disfran-
chised nor forbidden the exercise Of polit-
ical privileges, but their privileges are not
enlarged nor is their duty 10 party in
creased to pernicious activity by office hold
ing. A just discrimination in this regard
between the things a citizen may properly
do and the purposes for which a public
office should not be used is easy in the
light of a correct appreciation of the rela-
ton between the people and those en-
trusted with official place and a considera-
ton of the necessity, under our form of
government, Of political action free from
official coercion.
"You are requested TO communicate the
substance of these views TO those for whose
guidance they are intended.
GROVER CLEVELAND"
At the time IL was written this docu-
ment was generally accepted as one Of the
most interesting public papers President
Cleveland had ever achieved, although even
at that time he had earned a high repu-
tation among the voluminous and extraordi-
nary epistolizers In public life. This epis-
tie held a deservedly high place In the list
Of wonderful successes with the pen. II
gave origin TO those now familiar terms.
"offensive craftsmanship and 'pernicious ac-
tivity," the treatment OF which In the letter
exalted the President so highly In the
sacred circles of the W
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A correspondent in another State asks:
rs 1t not considered a breach of honor and
a desertion Of principle in Indiana for a
man who has taken part in a primary
or convention to bolt nominations made
without fraud when the nominees are men
OF character and abiiity?' In Republican
circles it is certainly so regarded. There
would be no use in party organization.
and no sense in holding conventions If those
who were delegates and those who selected
the delegates do not abide by the result
when 1T is without fraud and the candi-
dates are men of good character and ca
pacity. Nor will it do to bolt upon an
assumption of a few that the convention
was not fairly conducted and the delegates
fairly chosen. Furthermore, it will not do
to discredit a candidate upon mere charges
which are not proved.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

the malady commonly known as the
''swelled head
Mr.. John c. Ropes. of Boston. the WELL
known historian. has offered a prize of $3.50
for the best essay upon THE Russian War
of 1872" prepared by a candidate for a de-
gree in either Harvard University or the
University of Pennsylvania
Hans Won Bulow was exceedingly vain.
When fits of vanity would seize him on the
stage it was his custom to have the stage
hands shift the piano between the numbers
50 that with eacn new piece a different pro-
file OF his face would be presented.
Won Bulow was a man OF many eccen-
~tricities. Even In wearing his hair cut the
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Washington Special in Rochester Demo-
crat.
A good idea OF the state of public opinion
on the Hawaiian question. regardless OF
political considerations, was afforded by an
incident that occurred Monday evening at
the banquet OF the Loyal Legion of this
city. There were present on that occasion
between three and four hundred officers
who had served in the army and navy dur
ing the war. There were also present DIS
tinguished Congressman and other guests
of the commandry, and in the four hours
OF speech-making, storytelling and general
hilarity that took place, politics was not
once mentioned. Minister Thurston was
present and made an impromptu speech, his
subject being the loyalty of the American
colony in Hawaii during the civil war. No
reference was made TO the Hawaiian ques-
ton in the speech except incidentally
toward it's close, when the minister said
that he, being a good American, although
not born in this country, hoped TO live IN
der the stars and stripes IF, p~erchance,
the flag of the United States should some
time float over the Hawaiian Islands"
When Mr.. Thurston uttered these words
every soldier, sailor and civilian in the
great hall arose to his feet and cheered and
yelled in a burst of enthusiasm that had
not been created by the most eloquent
speakers OF the evening, who had done
their best to kindle n spark OF the old fire
in the breasts Of their comrades. There
was no politics in the cheers, which wee
given spontaneously I'm sympathy for the
chance sentiment expressed by the speaker.
1t was an interesting incident and a most
significant one.
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Thomas, Meade and Hancock not having
received the title and rank Of lieutenant
comforting it upon General Schofeld. To
remain in the list of major generals of the
United States army with such distinguished
senior major general of the army. Some
time, fifty or a hundred years hence, the
relative capacity and service of the leaders
in the late war will be estimated by their
rank, consequently no rank should be con-
ferred which would, in the future, place
General Schofield over Thomas, Meade and
Hancock
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Protection of Letter Carriers.

a bill has been introduced in the House
of Representatives providing that no letter
carrier shall be recommended for removal
until after written charges have been made
against him. publicly examined into and
reviewed. 1t is a sound bill, and ought to
pass. Ii is proposed by the National AS
ISOLATION of Letter Carriers, and the argu-
ment in its favor, submitted by its legisla-
tive committee, is lucid, candid and con-
vincing. The bill does not hamper the
Postmaster-general. IL simply provides that
he shall have the facts before him when he
makes q decision. He is not bound TO ac-
cept any recommendation from either the
first or second board Of inquiry, and IL is
left 10 him 10 determine the mode Of ap-
pointrnent OF both these committees. But
Iii this bill shall become law no postmaster
sonal or POLITICAL reasons on charges that
will not bear the light OF day.
The principle underlying the bill has al
ready been adopted In some ConspIcuols
cases by the present Postmaster-general,
who is a man of great fairness and Of
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Among the members OF the Ca 5inet who
put in his work 10 win Democratic Sena-
Secretary Gresham. To one of the most in
fuential Democratic Senators the New
York Suns correspondent represents Mr..
Gresham as saying that Peckham's defeat
meant the defeat Of the President and the
failure OF the Democratic administration.
And the response was: "Oh, no; l guess
not This little dispute won't disrupt the
Democratic party. and then. you know. 1
was a friend and supporter OF Cleveland
long before you came into the Democratic
party"
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To the Editor of the indianapolis Journa

Why was bar silver quoted at 80 pence
an ounce In London and GA cents In New
York-a difference Of 4 cents?
The probable cause was the announce
ment of the government of India that 1t
had withdrawn it's decision to maintain a
liked minimum Of Is I'D per rupee for India
Council drafts IN Bombay and Calcutta.
As soon as the announcement was made
500. 900 rupees were sold at a fraction over
Is I'd per rupee. This fact was realized in
London and not in New York. Speculative
ly, wheat has frequently been as high in
Chicago as i'm New York, and several times
higher. The speculative demand often makes
prices.
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unemployed, the suffering and pauperism
of the land. the affection of John Bull for
American toadies. In short. 1t has low
highest prosperity of the Nation. and in
creased everything that can add to its
woes and disgrace. Fortunately. it will end
by lowering itself out of existence. but the
lowering process is a general calamity.
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