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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1883.
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Galveston, Tex., October 1, 1888.
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liance and Grango to furnish it for publica-
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nmns, it will be unnecessary to forward to
both ofliccs, as an interchange is provided
lor between the two points.
The New York Times has interviewed
some brokers of its city as to the causes of
the advance in the prices of certificates of
stock in tho several trusts since the presi-
dential election, and quotes them as follows:
"We have more confidence now in trusts,"
said Mr. Keany of Ross &Keany, "and liavo
no fear of adverse legislation. Just pre-
vious to the election, when it seemed prob-
able that Cleveland would be re-clected,
there was a great depression in the price of
trust companies' stocks, and, in fact, for
some of them there was hardly a market at
any price. Now there is a groat feeling of
buoyancy in all these stocks. There is now
no further fear among tho trust companies
oI adverse legislation by either state or na-
tion, and wo aro correspondingly confident
and happy." Mr. Goodliart of Goodhart &
Co., expressed himself thus; "I'm no poli-
tician, liutlconsidor these certificates worth
more than they wcro a week ago." A. mem-
ber of the Standard oil trust is credited
with tho remark: "We are 100 per cent bet-
ter off than wo were under tho uncertain-
ties which have been prevailing"—the cer-
tainty now reckoned on being the prevalence
of the policy enunciated by Mr. Blaine that
"trusts aro largely private affairs," not to
bo interfered with by the servants of the
public. It is thoroughly understood that
tho tariff under which most of them come
into being and flourish, and without which
they would cease, is going to continue for
four years more a Mm wall of defense. The
trusts, in a word, believe now that they
have come into their kingdom. As a result,
whisky trust certificates, as already stated,
have advanced from 30 to 42; cotton seed oil
trust certificates have jumped from 83 to 57;
the distillers and cattle feeders' trust cer-
tificates show an advance of 17 per cent.
THE SCHOOL TAX PROBLEM.
Governor Ross, in his message to tho
special session of the Twentieth legislature,
after showing it to be impracticable to
maintain tho public schools under the pres-
ent system, and that a remedy must soon be
applied, suggested a solution of the difficult
problem by tho method of local taxation,
which is observed in most of tho states.
IIo expressed his views as follows:
Thogtato Is blessed wlt'i a large fund for pub-
lic education, and the revenues derived from
tliia source can he easily supplemented by a sys-
tom of local taxation to be adopted by tlie tax
payers of any particular district and expended
under their immediate direction and super-
vision. My own view Is that the state cau not
successfully maintain a system of public
education throughout its entire limits by
a system of stato taxation, but will finally be
compelled to content itself with the preserva-
tion, collection and distribution of the annual
incomo derived from its permanent fund,
among the several counties according to scho-
lastic population, and leave to the counties and
and smaller subdivisions the entire matter of
school regulation and maintenance by local
taxation, under a general regulation prescribed
by law. Such a system best comports with that
spirit of local self-government which is the
basis of our American vyjtem, and dUentanglo
public cducntion from tnat Idea of paternalism
which has boon a stumbling block with many
in Its adoption.
The governor of Alabama, says the Mont-
gomery Advertiser, has by message recom-
mended a like policy in that state, and in
line with his views the Alabama legislature
has now under favorable consideration a
constitutional amendment empowering the
legislature, if adopted by tho people, to au-
thorize school trustees of school districts to
levy a spccial tax for the support of schools
in the districts in which the tax is levied.
The trustees would have authority to levy
the tax or not, as they might deem proper.
If the trustees are elected by popular vote
the question of the tax levy would be de-
cided in their election. It is understood
that Superintendent Cooper will discuss this
question exhaustively In his biennial report
now in preparation. At one time Mr.
Cooper was belipved to be in favor of a local
tax, but opposed to investing tho trustees
with discretionary power as to the imposi-
tion of it. The governor of Texas and the
school superintendent seem to be in accord
and willing to assume the responsibility.
The agitation of the question may or may
not eventuate in popular disapproval. Un-
questionably tho Alabama scliemo would
not, under present circumstances, answer
tho purpose in Texas. Tho people of this
state aro hardly prepared to surrender state
responsibility for the support of tho schools
to the unpromising, discretionary responsi-
bility of local trustees. Trustees in
oertain localities of Alabama or
Texas would nover levy the tax, and it is
precisely in localities where public schools
are most needed that the local tax would
not be levied. The rate of the local tax
under tho system which Governor Ross
deems best might be fixed by local author-
ity between minimum and maximum rates
established by the constitution. Certain
failure and deserved unpopularity would
quickly attend any change which left the
support of the schools wholly to the con-
tingency of local volunteer taxation. In
fact a constitutional amendment proposing
such a policy would be defeated at the polls.
Local communities in Texas may now tax
themselves as proposed in Alabama except
that the vote upon the question of impos-
ing tho school tax is confined to tax-payers.
In the cities this works well enough, but in
tho rural districts it is a failure. Under
the present system the rural districts have
scant school privileges, and it is for such
localities that the change in the system is
most needed. The cities and towns are tak
ing good caro of their schools. The
legislature, however, at its coming
session, is not expected to solve
thin problem, and the governor's
advice will probably be ignored. Although
tho school revenue is decreasing in relation
to requirements, the increase of scholastic
population outstripping tho increase of
school fund, there is not likely to be such an
emergency as to force the change until the
maximum state school tax lias been levied
and found insufficient. The schools must
gravitate some years longer on the
down grade and the legislatures be
confronted with annually recurring
deficiencies before the views of the governor
will prevail. The agitation of the question
will increase, the dominant party will
finally be forced to declare its will, and
years after it should have been adopted the
needed constitutional amendment will be
submitted, unless in the meantime,the
necessity for a general revision of tho con-
stitution shall be recognized.
NEGRO DISFRAKC1ITSEMENT.
One may read in tho Montgomery (Ala.)
Advertiser such expressions as the follow-
ing:
Senator Morgan says the north would be glad
to get lid of about forty southern representa-
tives in congress by disfranchising the negro.
If they want to do it they have only to try. A
constitutional amendment to that effect would
be ratified by the practically unanimous vote of
every legislature in the south.
Senator Morgan has told one of the reas-
ons and the Globe-Democrat has revealed
another, though it does not advocate dis-
franchisement of the negro. The Globe-
Democrat's idea is to encourage the negroes
to divide so that the republicans may in-
duce white men in the south to join their
party where now the negro solidly re-
pels the whites. It does not seem possi-
ble that the republicans would go so far as
to propose a measure of the radical kind
suggested as being necessary if they really
meant to get where Senator Morgan puts
them. It would be flying against
their record with a vengeance. Nobody
believes that the republican politicians
caro for tho negro, but everybody knows
that they want to impress the patriotic re-
publican voters with an idea of their lofty
liumanitnrianism. To formally propose
that Cuffy be politically garroted would
be too scandalous for the party of moral
ideas. Hence some more sly and crafty
mode of operation may be looked for, which
the ingenuity of Quay's party will net fail
to discover. There nre fearful engineries of
injustico in even neglecting to do something
which constitutional law requires to bo
done, but the probable modus oper-
andi of partisan sculduggery may
be left to reveal itself with time. The^Nkws
thinks that tho Montgomery Advertiser's
suggestion, correct perhaps as to several
southern states in their present temper,
will not be tested. But if the suggestion
were practicable tho democrats had far bet-
ter resist tho proposal. In anticipation of
this course, which would be sure to approve
itself on second thought, the republicans
would not dare to make the suggested at-
tempt, which on failure would add the
solid negro vote to the democratic party.
The New York Commercial BuVlettn ad-
vises life insurance companies to adopt a sys-
tem of Indorsing on each policy its values
at stated times as security for a loan. It
argues that the old plan of rendering it diffi-
cult for people to draw out of insuranee
without loss has prevented many a one
from going in. The companies have been
edging in tho direction suggested by the
Bulletin. Life insurance would be popular-
ized among business men by acceptance of
its suggestion. Most business men feel the
danger of somotimo needing a little money
to tide over a time, and thus of being unable
to pay a premium. Tho suggested modifi-
cation woftld servo as an assuranco of posi-
tive aid at such times, and would thus both
remove their fears and supply a new motive
to insure.
The cabled statement that tho marquis of
Ilartington will have earned a place in
Lord Salisbury's cabinet would have been
an amusing mistake if its author had not
known that the marquis has long refused to
take such a position.
The Russian troops in Poland numbered
300,000 before the recent additions; but it
may be observed that the czar must keep
his large army somewhere, and that is only
a fraction of Jt. The war preparations on
all sides would sufficiently account for a
concentration by the power which recognizes
its inability to move troops as faBt as somo
of its neighbors. The czar now experiences
disappointment in the bad state of his rail-
ways, just as a year ago he was chagrined
by revelations of corruption in his com-
missariat.
Tiffi idea of honoring the south by placing
Mah'one in Mr. Harrison's cabinet is rather
too ridiculous to be insulting.
Tariff reform and tax reduction are im-
portant measures, but a reform that
lies deeper is tho reform of our system
of national elections. So long as the peoplo
are denied the right to choose a president by
their direct votes so long will the shameful
frauds practiced in New York and else-
where bo continued. The best way to de-
stroy tho power «f the trading politician is
to destroy the system that gives him that
power. If the people and not the states
were allowed to elect the president, the
pivotal state idea, with all its concomitant
evils, would at once disappear.
The News has just rcoeived the official re-
turns of the votes oast In Cameron county
at the recant election. This is one of the
counties belongihg to the Seventh Congres-
sional district, and gave Mr. Crain 1454 and
Mr. Browster 389 votes, or a majority for
Mr. Grain of 1005. Adding these figures to
those already published gives Mr. Crain a
majority thils far of 8650, with six counties,
nearly all largely democratic, to hear from.
New York Standard: It is a good sign,
this talk of a bargain between tho republi-
can party and certain democrats of the
south to break tho solid south. It means a
division Of parties in the southern states
which will be better for the south and bet-
ter for tho whole country. The mere rumor
has brought out in the editorial columns of
the Charleston News and Courier a demo-
cratic note with the ring of true metal, so
unfamiliar in tho southern press. Admit-
ting that there aro many men in the south
who have been democrats from necessity
instead of principle, and who may leavo, it
declares that "they who remain—they who
believe in democratic principles as the only
safeguard of republican institutions, will
stand together more firmly than ever be-
fore." It is this the democratic party
needs—north as well as south—the with-
drawal of those of its members who are not
democrats. As they go, not alone will they
who remain stand together firmer than
ever, but to them will come shoals of demo-
crats who have never been and aro not now
of tho democratic party—men to whom the
party has been made repulsive by the un-
democratic direction in which tho enemies
of democracy in its councils have guided It.
Nearly everybody is kicking the mug-
wumps and sneering at Mr. Cleveland now.
The thing was quite different four years
ago, but the mugwumps and Mr. Cleveland
were successful then, and that makes all the
difference in the world. It is tho old story
of the boy's definition of a professor. "A
professor," he said, "is a man who crosses
the British channel in a balloon success-
fully. When he falls in the middle and is
drowned he is called ad—d fool."
LOVE.
O love! thou art a treasure,
Which we guard with watchful eye,
And feel the deepest pleasure
When we feel thy presence nigh;
We havo felt your warm breath on our choek;
Have seen the gaze of your so il-lit eyes;
The knowledge of you makes us meek,
And nobler, purer feelings arise.
No jewel so rich can we ever wear,
In our crown in after life.
As tho precious .one that has been placed
there.
In the tender love of a wife.
The husband, too, must play his part
In the mighty role of Love,
And allow no imago to touch his heart,
But of her ho can meet above.
The lover's love is tho blindest love,
The most ardent of them all;
Tho truest, tenderest and kindest love
Until jealousy causes a fall.
And then he listens too eagerly,
To its crucl, mocking voice,
And imbibes the poison greedily.
Until he is nearly lost.
But again to li's loved One he turns
And sues for pardon at her feet.
And on the altar of his heart ho burns
The remnants of his foolish hate.
She takes h:s hand and fondly tries,
With prayerful heart raised up above,
To let tho bitterreis and sighs
Of jealousy die out in love.
All have stood within loves portal
All have heard its mystic voice.
None escape, for all are mortal,
Ijovc has made them all rejoice.
Seme their father's have deserted.
Some have yearned for mother's love;
Human love can be perverted,
But never that of Him above.
AIlliLLE batterson.
Galveston, November 17.
HONORING HIS MEMORY.
CEREMONIES AT INDIANAPOLIS OVER
THE GRAVE OF HENDRICKS.
Tlie Third Anniversary of His Death Ap-
propriately Observed—Governor Gray
Delivers a Touching Eulogy—
Beautiful Decorations.
Indianapolis, Ind., November 80.—Tho
memory of Thomas A. Hendricks was hon-
ored yesterday, on the third anniversary of
his death, by memorial services over his
grave. The exercises were under the imme-
diate auspices of the Hendricks club of this
city, but several hundred other citizens par-
ticipated. The day was pleasant, but chilly.
At 2 o'clock 200 members of the club, each
attired in dark clothing and wearing high
gray hats with crape bands, proceeded via
the street cars to Crown Hill cemetery. Ar-
riving at Crown Hill, the club formed in
marching order. Governor Gray and Presi-
dent Conduitt
marched in toe lead,
followed by the club's drum and bugle
corps. Behind came the members, four
abreast, many carrying bouquets and
wreaths. Conspieuous above the column
floated the handsome banner of the club,
decorated with cliaplets of flowers and ever-
greens, and bearing a portrait of the late
vice-president, surrounded by tho inscrip-
tion: "Tho Hendricks Club of Indianapolis.
Organized January 8, 1806."
To the beat of muffled drums the solemn
procession passed under tho beautiful arch-
way leading Into the cemetery, and moved
slowly toward the central ground, where
tho remains of Indiana's distinguished son
lie buried. A tall granito monument marks
the spot where tho late vice-president and
his son Morgan sleep. Their graves were
completely hidded beneath a bed of roses
and chrysanthemums. At the head of the
vice-president's grave rested a pillow of
white chrysanthemums with the words,
"From the Hendricks club," picked out in
forget-me-nots.
around the inclosure
were grouped several hundred visitors,
many occupying carriages. Among the lit-
ter were Mrs. Hendricks, who drove out
With Dr. Thompson and Judge Niblack,
two warm personal friends of her distin-
guished husband. The procession formed
a circle about the grave, and the quartette
choir sang with much feeling the hymn,
Lead, Kindly Light, which was a favorite
with Mr. Hendricks as was rendered by
the choir. At the conclusion, Dr. J. S.
Jenckes, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal
church, of which Mr. Hendricks was senior
warden at the time of his demise, came for-
ward and led in a prayer, those present join-
ing audibly with him in the Lord's prayer.
During the impressive address all present
stood uncovered, and many were afflicted to
tears with the pathetic tones of the vener-
able minister. At the conclusion of the
prayer Governor Isaac P. Gray delivered the
memorial address. He spoke in part
as follows:
"It is with sad hearts we have come to
this place on this the third anniversary of
the death of a belovod and honored son of
Indiana, who, like Jacob, Joshua and Da-
vid, gathered about htm the years of a well-
speut life and went down to rest clothed in
a mantle of unsullied fame. While we stand
around the tomb of the distinguished dead
to attest by these simple and unostentatious
ceremonies our respect for his living mem-
ory, our minds imperceptibly go back to
other days which bring to vivid recollection
the pleasure wo experienced bv a personal
acquaintance with the deconsed and the
cordial, friendly greeting always extended
by him. 'His fame was not built on fields
fertilized by human carnage.'
it was builded
in the ways of peace and good will to men
and will not bo diminished as it passes in
review before the generations that are to
come. His virtues, which he did not ob-
trude on the attention of others while liv-
ing, will not lose their luster by lapse of
time but, will shine brighter and brighter
as time rolls on until they finally become
the most conspicuous memorial of his
name. He began life unaided except by the
energies with which nature had provided
him. He lived a just, pure and blameless
life and died the ocoupant of the second of-
fice within the gift of his countrymen. He
waj well known even to those in the hum-
ble walks of life. He was a
man of the people
and lived and died the people's friend. His
unassuming deportment toward all won for
him universal admiration and respoet. It
can be said of him that he never betrayed a
public or private trust. He never took ad-
vantage of the necessities of his fellowmen.
He never indulged in vituperation or abuse.
He never stopped to repel the shafts of cal-
umny when leveled at himself. He was al-
ways calm, cordial and considerate of the
feelings of others, even amid the heat of a
great political excitement. He was equally
calm while the hand of his maker was cast-
ing the shadow of death over his face.
Whatever pursuits he was engaged in, to
whatever station he was called. In whatever
relation to the people he was placed, he con-
ducted himself with a high conscientious
regard for the recognized rights of all. His
amiable disposition and suave manners
made him a conspicuous illustration of
what the prevailing moral sentiment of the
American people teaches. His life is a
deacon light
to the footsteps of the public servant of to-
day who would secure this continued con-
fidence and support of the people. The
death of none will change the laws of nature,
nor stop this great republic from moving
on to tho fulfillment of its destiny; but as
long as this republic shall survive, as long
as virtue and true manhood are admired,
the people of Indiana will not cease to re-
vere the name and memory of Thomas A.
Hendricks."
governor gray
spoke with great feeling, and within the
range of his eloquent voice not a dry eye
was to be seen. At the conclusion of his
eulogy the members of the club formed into
two lines and marched slowly past the
grave of their beloved leader, each member
dropping upon that sacred spot as he passed
the rose that he had worn in his lapel, and
with a farewell hymn—The Christian's
Good Night—the first memorial services in
honor of a historic character wore ended.
Hundreds lingered to admire the beautiful
decoration about the grave and the monu-
ment. .
XJie Merritt Law of Illinois.
The Merritt law sprang out of the excite-
ment of the time, and all laws thus originat-
ing are to be viewed with suspicion. But
why, it may bo asked, should men conscious
of innocence of purpose in their organiza-
tions object to a law aimed, it would appear,
only at persons proceeding by themselves
or through officers of an organization with
fraudulent and malicious intent to do a
wrong? Who is to judge of tho intent and
of the effect of any such act? When a police
inspector may, without rebuke from his
superiors, denounce citizens who ask for a
modification of this clause as anarchists
asking its repeal to pave the way for safe
perpetration, of wholesale murder, it is not
difficult to imagine that a circular signed
by the officers of a labor union, complain-
ing that the schedule of wages is not satis-
factory. would be construed by a police
department where Bonflcld's is the loudest
voice as the work of conspirators, whose free-
dom of speech must be punished by flvo years
of imprisonment. The courts, it will be re-
plied, will not permit any gross violation of
the fundamental right of tho citizen. Courts
like assemblies are swayed'by clamor. The
McAllisters upon the bench are few and far
between. How the court of last resort
would construe the quoted section of the
Merritt law would bo exceedingly problem-
atical. There are Bonllelds on the bench as
well as in tho city hall. The labor unions
are right in asking a modification of a sec-
tion which they know to be a monace of all
organized labor. It is a clause under which
an innocent circular may bo made to appear
a monstrous crime. It is tlie right of every
man to speak freely and to write freely, tak-
ing care how he abuse that liberty. This
declaration of the constitution, together
with laws so drastic that wild-tongued ora-
tors may be choked for too" great feodom of
speech, is abundant to protect the right of
society against the wrong of the individual.
The clause may be repealed without harm
to any One. [Chioago Times.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
Democratic motto for the next presiden-
tial campaign: No north, no oast, no solid
south, iio Sackville West.
The brindle-liaircd and hypocritical Tom
Cooper raises the sectional issue. He inti-
mates that southern congressmen are to be
unseated with Quay's "mailed hand," prob-
ably in tho hope that the tariff may bo for-
gotten in the trouble following such high-
handed outrage. [Pittsburg Post.
The Tribune is again becoming hoarse in
demanding the removal of the duties on
South Carolina rico and Louisiana sugar.
Certainly. Take 'em off—every cent. Let
us have free trade at onco in everything
that can not be produced north of tho Ohio.
That is consistent republicanism. [St.
Louis Republic.
Democratic ticket for 1803:
For President—Colonel Henri Watterson
of Kentucky.
Por Vice-president—Colonel Henri Grady
of Georgia.
Platform—The split In the solid south
must belclosed up somehow. [Chicago Tri-
bune.
The election Is over and political oratory
lulls, but the education of the people in
economies remains the great need of our
country. Thfe held of such education is far
wider than questions of tariff. It runs into
all the topics 6f industrial organization. It
is our tfue, our oply defense against the so-
cial perils of the near future. [Springfield
Republican.
And the Republic howls without ceasing
for free trade In everything that can not bo
produced at the south. It wants northern
wool, salt, lumber and marble put on the
free list. Its wants moonshine whisky put
on the tree list as provided iu its pet Mills
bill. But. it would retain 100 per cent boun-
ty protection to South Carolina rice, to be
paid by northern consumers, and 72 per
cent bounty protection on Louisiana sugar
at the expense of 40,000,000 of northern peo-
ple. The St. Louis Republic is a jewel of
freo trade consistency. [Chicago Tribune.
No civil sorvice reform humbug is wanted
this time. The four years of the Cleveland
experiment has shown what a hollow farce
the system is, and we hope there will be no
standing on ceremony when tho process of
chopping off heads begins. From tho bu-
reau chiefs to the cross roads postmasters
the ax should be applied as fast as it can be
wielded, and the 5th of March, 1890, should
see that the cry "Turn the rascals out" i3
answered by the statement "None of them
are in." [Philadelphia News.
No party can long remain in possession of
power and the public money without be
coming extravagant and corrupt. The his-
tories of parties iu all ages and lands agree
upon this point. A vigorous and watchful
minority keeps the dominant party of the
hour on its guard against tlie commission
of those wrongs and follies, by which tlie
outs may profit to appeal to the country
and once more be trusted with the helm, ft
is far better for the opposition itself, as as-
suredly it is for the country at largo,that its
foroes should be judiciously distributed in
all sections of the union, than to be too
largely concentrated at tho south. [New
York Journal of Commerco.
Mr, Patrick Ford, the deserter and dyna
miter, is in a state of joy. In his address
to tho "fellow-soldiers in the good fight,"
read at tho meeting of certain persons called
"Irish protectionists," at Cooper union last
evening, Ford declares that the election of
Harrison "is a victory for the principlo of
homo rule over the impertinence of foreign
intermeddling;" but Ford himself inter-
meddled to u notable extent in the canvass,
and ho is In tho last degree "foreign" to
everything that is American, as well as to
everything that is clean, decent and of good
repute. He is the rankest kind of foreigner,
but whether his "intermeddling" should
bo desoribed as impertinent or merely set
down as venal is mainly a matter of taste in
the choice of ddjectives, both terms being
eqally true and appropriate. [New York
Times.
The public mind is settling down to the
conviction that our presidential contests
are fast becoming mere bouts of money-
spending. A victory thus obtained is, of
course, without moral forco, however prof-
itable it may be for a while to its beneficia-
ries. The people can not, in the long run,
sanction proceedings which in effect per-
vert their will, and that, too, by corrupt
methods which strike at the very founda-
tions of free government. Venality must
bo followed by demoralization and
distrust. Patriotism can not long
survive as a potent forco in our poli-
tics if the longest purse is to determine the
settlement of public questions. When it
comes to bo understood that our nresent
economio system is so profitable to the rich,
banded together in trusts and other forms
of monopoly, that, lu order to preserve it,
they are abl6 ana willing to give millions to
debauch the poor, to carry pivotal states,
and thus obtain control of the federal gov-
ernment and its policy, its shrift, it Is to be
feared, will be short. [Baltimore Sun.
Though General Harrison's alarmist ap-
peals were supported by Mr. Blaine and
echoed by hundreds of lesser speakers, and
though the republican managers made ar-
rangements to marshal the floaters of
Hoosierdom to the polls in blocks of five,
what is the outcome of the congressional
elections in Indiana? Why simply this:
The democrats have kept possession of
every district which they carried in 1886,
and they have wrested from the re-
publicans no fewer than four of the seven
districts which that party obtained at
tho last election. In the First district a
republican plurality of 1357 lias been
converted into a democratic plurality of 25.
In the Eight district, where the republicans
had a lead of 1102, the democrats now como
to the front with a lead of 60. In tho Eleventh
district a republican plurality of 408 has
been turned into a democratic plurality of
475, and in the Twelfth district, according to
tho figures given by telegraph, a republican
plurality of 2484 is transmuted into a demo-
cratic plurality of 1 111. In the presenrtou-
gress the Indiana delegation stands soven
republicans to six democrats. In the next
congress the political complexion will be
reversed, aud tho delegation will stand ten
democrats to three republicans. [Boston
Herald.
She Has a System.
Philadelphia Girl—I wonder what is tho
luckiest day fo be married on?
Chicago Girl—Ohl Wednesday, by all
means.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, indeed. My ma always gets mar-
ried on Wednesday, and every time she gets
a divorce, with ever so much alimony."
I Philadelphia Regard.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
President Patton of Princeton has nover
become a citizen of this country.
Mrae. Hastroiter has created a sensation
in Homo by her performance in Gluek'i Or-
pheus.
It is said that Mrs. Langtry has signed n»
engagement to play at a Paris theater during
the exhibition of 1889.
The commander in-cliief of tho English
army, tho duke of Cambridge, has completed
hi3 fifty-first year of sendee.
They have started the story that Baldwin,
tho aeronaut now making hlmsolf famous in
London by dropping from balloons with a para-
ohuto, is none other than Lulu, who used to b«
shot out of a cannon.
The statue of James A. Garfield to he
placed In Lakeview cemetery, Cleveland, will
bo of marble, of heroic size, and will represent
him in tho act of addressing congress. It is t*
bo completed and unveiled In June next.
Robert Turner of Ghent, Ky., died a few
days ago. In 1850 he bought two slaves at auc-
tion and made 81KOO by tho transaction, end now
his will directs that, that amount ho divided
from lii3 estato among tho four African churches
in Ghent.
The death was announced a few days ago
of W. H. Gray of Helena, Ark. IIo was a Vir-
ginian by birth, and possessed unusual gifts as
an orator. IIo made a notable speech second-
ing tho ronomination of General Grant at Phila-
delphia in 1872. For many years ho ranked a»
tho foremost man of negro blood in Arkansas.
The death is recorded of lime. Amet, a
Fronch tale writer. Sho was a daughter of Gen-
eral Junot, Duke d'Abrantes, and of the Duchess
d'Abrantos, who wrote tho famous Memoirs of
tho Court of Napoleon. Mine. Amet was, be-
fore her marriage, a Sister of Charity, iler
daughter is tho Countess do Mouy, wife of tho
French embassador at Rome.
M. Paul Bourget's remark that "no man
i3 a judge of the qualities by which another
man pleases the women" Is aptly applied to Pra-
do, the French crlmi nal, who is described by
ono who was near h lm for about an hour in the
court as a man of the vulgarest possible aspect,
who revoals alike in voice and feature tho low-
est typo of blackguardism, yet he did not find it
at all difficult to marry, to ruin, and to cut the
throats of young, and in every case, beautiful
women.
IN BOSTON, OF COURSE.
"Prisoner," said the magistrate, "you are
charged with being found dead drunk on
the street. What have you to say?"
"I reckon I'm guilty, your honor."
"Ten dollars and costs. Next. Sara®
charge against you, sir. Have you any plea
to muke?"
"Your honor," replied tho prisoner, wip-
ing his spectacles on the tail of his coat and
speaking with great dignity, "with your
permission I wish to enter a plea of guilty to
the charge of being discovered on a public
thoroughfare while in the condition techni-
cally and scientifically known ns alcoholic
trance."
"My friend," said tho magistrate, kindly,
"your offense is merely a nominal one. You
may go."
After having listened at a Thanksgiving
dinner to Jones' stale jokes, Smith said: ,:I
say, Jones, the Thanksgiving turkey is
luckier than we are."
"In what way?" asked Jones.
"He isn't stuffed with chestnuts until
after he is dead." [Texas Sittings.
Wife (at breakfast table)—George, dear,
why do all the defaulting cashiers from tha
far west go to Canada?
Husband (who is emeritus professor of
geography)—Because, my dear, though
there is loss longitude there, theyihave more
latitute. [Puck.
All tho speeches and addresses delivered
during the last twenty years or so by Albert.
Edward aro to be published, They will bo
known as the prints of Wales. [Philadel-
phia Ledger.
Shakspeare was slightly mixed in his
Seven Ages. It is the "whining school-
boy" whom the maternal eye has detected
in some flagrant act of disobedience that
"shifts into the slippered pantaloon."
[Puck.
Husband—"My dear, didn't you say you
onee ownod a parrot and it got away?"
Wife—"Yes, poor, poor Poll!" "Was it a
large green bird with a Roman nose bill?"
"Yes, yes. Have you seen it?" "Well,
there is a parrot on Green street which I
think may have been yours." "How love-
ly. Did it keop asking forcrackers?" "No,
it kept asking for m&ney." [Philadelphia
Record.
"I 'stumped' all through the lato cam-
paign," said the one-legged man. "And I,"
said the one-armed politician, "made a few
'off-hand' speeches." [Norristown lleraM.
A lot of little bootblacks perched on a
curbstone may not he India rubber boys,
yet they aro gutter perchors. [Texas Sift-1
ings.
Tha poetess who sings that sho was
"kissed by tho waves" probably fell over-
board near tho mouth of a river. [Bingham-
ton Republican.
The fact has just como to light that a dem-
ocrat in lice, Neb., spent election day in.
trying to bet ?1200 on Cleveland, but could
find no takers. The republicans of that
little villago are now reported to be wear-
ing crape on their arms.
Thoorles of Cabinet Making.
The "favorite son" cabinet preferences of
the republicans in different states, as gath-
ered aud reported by the World's corre-
spondent's yesterday, indicated some very
queer theories of cabinet making. The
prevalent idea seems to bo that the states
which contributed most to the successful
candidate's nomination, or thoso that gave
him the biggest majorities, aro entitled to
"claim" the cabinet positions. How foreign
this is to the idea upon which the great doj
partments of government are organized and
to tho work which they have to do it is
scarcely necessary to point out. Another
theory may be described as tho "sore-head
idea." It is based on tho notion that if
a prominent candidate for offlco is beaten
before the people the president should pro-
vido for .him by taking tho rejected aspir-
ant into his official family. President
Grant's original idea was that he should
select his cabinet as he would a military
staff, or a picnic party, from among tho.
men whom ho "liked." Presidont Cleve-
land adopted this theory in two or three of
his selections—making others for the pur-
pose of "building up the party" in particu-
lar states—with what results tho elections
in Michigan and Wisconsin show. The true
theory of cabinet construction is to select
men (1) for their special competency for the
duties to bo required of them; (2) as truly
representative of their party and popular
with its members by reason of conspicuous
and honorable services in its behalf; and (8>
because they are agreeable to and in sym-
pathy with the president. If President
Cleveland had actcd upon this theory at tho
start, his administration would have been
far stronger with tho party and before the
country. [New York World.
Ballet Reform.
Reports of deep interest on tho question
of ballot reform como from all quarters.
In at least a dozen states organized move-
ments aro on foot to secure legislative ac-
tion on the subject. In Indiana, as the
Indianapolis Sentinel remarks, ballot re-
form "is to-day tho question of questions."
Tha Sentinel is devoting much space to dis-
cussion and explanation of tho Australian
and English laws and is doing really valua-
ble service in giving intelligent direction to
tlie popular interest. Steps are also being-
taken in Connecticut for tho draftine of a
bill to be presented to tho next legislature,
aud similar projects are reported from sev-
eral western states. In all quarters the
conviction is strong that absoluto sec.rccy
in the act of voting is theprimary requisite,
in any system of reform which may be pro-
posed. [New York Evening Post.
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