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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: WEDNESDAY. APRTL 8; i»9U*
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year, |1.
Gov.rnor Hill on tbc TarilT. D.mocr.tte taratar. during the n.xt
Governor llill. letter r.fu.in* to y ,„-if , h . y enough to tight
take part in a frro trade demonstration the n , rl £rut um , on tbe „ me d
will rr.ate Mmatrbat of a aenaation, „ the lrav-th. Uemocratlo Tlctorj will
be so overwhelming that it will not again
perhaps. At least his enemies will take
advantage of the opportunity it affords
them to heap a good deal of abuse on
him. They will do this, not because of
anvthiug in bia letter so much as be*
cause anything he may do is, in tbeir
eyes, wrong and hateful; for Governor
llill has accumulated a lot of enemies
who are very much in earnest, but not
at ail discri ninatlng in their judgment.
Hut the Telegraph is not one of
CnUcriptioas payable In advance. Demit by \ those enemies and can judge hit acta
postal order, check or mistered letter. c'ur- j w jthout prejudice* To us it seems that
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mrnu. to cents per line. Fourteen lines of i place at the free trade meeting to which
agate type, e.;ual toono inch bj.Ht e in depth, *1 j, e was invited, and which seotns to have
lath# BtawUrd of measurement, contract | lln( j er c<)n t ro i 0 f extremists, is an open concession of tbe field to their
^^.^rr J “ kU “' rB0 “ U ‘ tUC 'The reaoni which the governor glvra
linn at huaincM office * — 8°'«™or glv
A11 communic ations should 1* addressed mm / iur uut aiivuuiug acorn &0 Ui, •& tBS
all order* cluck*. draft* *tc„ ma«lo pays- \ >«ry gdod one* Possibly tire
persona responsible for the meeting may
TELEGRAPH. Mama. Ga.
TO OIR SI/DSCHIUKKS.
fletts lock at the email label on your paper,
wkish shows tha date the subserlptkm ha* been
& aid ta Those who are In arrears will please
remit promptly.
Tbe giip seems to have naturalized
itself and become a permanent citizen of
the countrv. Hut It has not changed its
character at all, and is killing people out
West at a mora rapid rate than ever.
IB what striking contrast are the ait-
nations of Registrar of the Treasury
Eosecrans and Treasurer Huston. One
was asked to rebign. and aaiJ, “1 will
not.” The other wants to resign, and
the President eays, “You cannot.”
be called upon tofacotheRepubllcan party
in a national contest. If that party can*
not exist in New England, it can lira
nowhere. When beaten out of that
region it must disappear.
Southern Iren In Che YTest.
The Pittsburg Dispatch says that South
ern iron now auppliee one-thlid of tha
demand of Western foundries and is still
gaining in that region. This state of thinge
imposes on Northern iron producers,
it aay«, the necewi'y of reducing the co*t
of production or of restricting their output.
The first is difficult to do, and the second
The Importations of woolon goods for
the month of January were 18,000,000
less than for the same month last year.
Tbe eaportations of bread9tuffi have
also been less for several month* The
McKinley law ie getting in iU work.
The reports that Italians are trying to
wreck Baltimore and OL’.o tiaina in re
venge for tho New Orleans lynching are
probably exaggerated. The Italian la
borers who have been imported into
that region are ignorant and revengeful,
but they are not complete savage*
Govebxob Nobtheh did well to give
thoAlbeny chautauqua the encourage
ment of hie present-* It is en under
taking which should receive the active
support of the state's officials as well as
its citizen* The good It may do ie too
great to be calculated.
Now the Republican papers are saying
tbst Ingalls woe the loed that iwamped
their party in the West and rejoicing
that there ie a prospect of being relieved
of him. It is bard to realize that this ie
the earns man whom all good Republi
cans worshiped a few weeks ago.
A rsw days ago our government was
perhaps willing to pay several million
times what they were worth for the
killed -t New Orleans recently.aa
an express ion of our friendly feeling for
Italy. Now, perhaps, it will insist on
settling at the market rat* That can
best be ascertained at Naplo*
|nu|iOm to cal! n conven
tion to meet at Montgomery in May, ite
purpose being U» stars a wuvcuicut tv
raise $100,000 for an exhibit at Hie
World’s Fair. Georgia has 137 counties.
Something like $7,500 from each would
give us $100,000. Cannot tbe Georgia
meeting for the same purpose do as well
as Alabama proposes to Jo?
All the states which have elections
this year—there are six of them—now
have Democratic governors, though two
of them, Ohio end Iowa, have always
been regarded as Republics!* state* If
tbe Democrats carry both of them again
this year, however, they can fairly be said
to be doubtfnl m the presidential election
which is to follow the year after. Their
Ices would pot greatly discourage the
Democrat* Their votes have never been
counted upon to help elect a Democratic
President,
Bctsday night the census of Greet Brit
ain and Ireland will be taken, and on
Monday the returns will be on their way
to tbe central office* The work which in
title country is spread over a month Is
there done in a few hour* and, as far as
mere enumeration is eon earned,
more perfectly than our own. The dif
ficulties to be overcome are small, as
compared with those encountered in the
United btoto* and the census deals with
very few subject* Still, that the work
can be done in such a short time ie proof
of % very perfect organization, and
preparation has perhaps been guing on
for month* The census is expected to
show a considerable increase of popula
tion, in spite of tbe Urge emigration
that continually goes on from all threo
kingdom*
The new Australian nation, if the con
ference at Sydney should succeed in
cresting one, will commence business
with n public debt altnoel aa Urge aa that
of the United btetes, if it should assume
tbe dobt of tbe now independent oolonie*
This debt has been incurred mainly in
the construction of railroad* which in
AuslralU are owned by the state and not
by private companle* l’erhaps the debt
could be wiped out by selling the roads,
and that might be done, as their manage
ment has not been very satisfactory,
were it not that many of the ideas of
State enrUUem have obtained a at roar
hold among Australian* They will con
tinue their experiments in that direction
still further, in all probability, v. bother
the union be formed or no*
rprised that tho governor should
think them opposed to all tariff taxation.
It has been our understanding that
on the most extreme of free traders
believe that a Urge part, if not the greater
part, of the necessary public revsnue
should be collected at the custom house*
It is possible, therefor* that the govern
or's letter woabasod on a misunderstand
ing of the objects of the meeting. He
and its projectors may disagree ae to the
meaning of the words “free trado.”
There U some evidence to show that
there was some such misunderstanding.
In his letter Governor Hill says that his
position on the tariff question is exactly
that of the Democratic party aa declared
in iU platforms of 1876, 1681 ami
1888. The platform of 1876 (and 1880)
declared for “a tariff for revenue only,”
and its enemlaa declared it a “free trade”
platform. The platform of 1884 was so
worded that even Its constructors could
naver agree exactly what it meant and
■pent several yeare quarreling about it
Thu quarrel continued until tbe con
vention oi JSS3 ui«» t «•!««** the contro
versy was settled by the readoption of
t> e old platform, with tho declaration
that Mr. Cleveland's famous “free trado”
message (so called by Ida enemies) was
its proper interpretation. Governor Hill,
therefore, believes that the Urilf shoe Id
be “for revenue only,” and that it ehonld
be laid in accordance with the ideas
expressed in Mr. Clevoland'e famous mes
sage.
Yet we are told that at the meeting
which Governor Hill refused to attend a
reference to thU message was wildly
applauded, ehowing that those who
attended accepted the ideas which Gov
ernor Hill esye are ®l§o hi* Ti at mas
sage did not propose the total abolition of
the tariff, but only to take tome of the war
taxes out of iL Plainly, Governor Hill
and the free traders of that meeting
are not so far apart as he thought They
meet in a common admiration for and
acceptance of Mr. Cleveland's message.
But though possibly based on a mis-
understand in.-. and. therefore, somewhat
unnecessary. Gov, Iliii’s letter states the
Democratic Ur iff policy very well. The
party ie not in favor of abolishing the
tariff, nor of raising all the revenues by
direct taxation. It has never been in
favor of that policy and never wiii o*
Perhaps no single person ever was or ever
will be. But It le in favor of a revenue
tariff, and believe* with the John
Bbermsn of twenty years ago, that
no tariff which the ingenuity of man
could devise would raise tbe necessary
revenue without at the earns lime con
ferring on our producers, of whatever
class, all tbe protection to which they are
entitled or which they need.
Southern rival*
The dispatches in yesterday’sTzi.scnA.rK
from tho Connoilsville region show bow
tho laborers moot an attempt to reduce
the cost of producing coke, one of the
largest items of expense entering into
tho coat of pig iron. They call dynamite
%o their assistance anil deliberately destroy
tbe property of the companies which try
to reduce their wages or dispense with
tbeir service* These laborers are igno
rant Hungarians, mostly imported in
times (teat to hroak down strikes, aud
who aro as violent and unreasonable as
they are ignorant. The companies can
heat them in the long run, but the strug
gle will be a costly on* Until they are
beaten, tho cost of coke cannot
be greatly reduced. Even then
only one handicap on the Northern
iron proJucer will be removed. The high
freight rutei on railroads whose first cost
was far too great, and whoso atock has
since been waterod to make the fortunes
of manipulators in Wall street are another
The assembling of the materials for iron
making bos been the largest part of the
business of the roads, and they cannot
afford to lose that source of ncome. But
they cannot earn dividends on their wa
tered stock, as heretofore, at much lower
rates than they have been charging. So it
will be extremely difficult to reduce
this dement of cost in Northern
made pig-iron.
The truth is that it is the natural ad
vantages they enjoy which enable
Southern iron makers to undersell their
rival* These advantages cannot be off
set, for Improvements which may give a
temporary advantage in Pennsylvania
will be quickly adopted in Alabama, and
restoro tbe advantage of tbe latter.
This does not mean, of course, that the
South will monopolize the iron busines*
U will only monopolise those branches of
it for which it has peculiar advantage*
The trade may conlinuo to grow in
Pennsylvania ns well as in Alabama snd
Tennessee, sod it la probable that for
many years most of the steel
used by the country will continue to be
made north of the Ohio river. In both
sections of tbe country capital will be
forced into those brauchee of the trade
which in them ere profitable, and tbe re-
wiff be » great saving for the whole
country. Tbe waste of producing high
cost iron in Pennsylvania, instead of low
coat iron in Alabama, will be avoided.
A free trade principle will be illustrated
inMde the limit# of proteotloB.
Industrial Education.
It is probable that the Drexel Institute,
soon to begin ite work, will be watched
as closely by the country at large os by
the Pbiladelphiane, who see, in the ap
pointment to its priocipelship of their city
superintendent, James MacAilister, the
promise of Philadelphia’s favorite school
theories being carried into practice under
what may be called Ideal circumstance*
Superintendent MacAilister fs perhaj* the
most enthusiastic man in America ou tbe
subject of the industrial education of
girl* He managed, during bis career as
superintendent, to introduce the leading
features of industrial education in the
grades of the public schools—fftenogrnphy,
•swing, cocking, industrial drawing,
decorative design in its many p ase*
These branches be introdneed one by one
into his schools, braving with each de
parture from the regular curriculum,
tuu opposition whiuu um
the punishment of murderers, capital
punishment will be aboliehe 1, even
though n majority of men continue to
believe that the state should kill the
murderer.
The Centennial of Patents.
The centennial of tbe patent office will
be celebrated in Washington on the 8th,
and the affair is expected to be very
interesting, Representative men from all
parte of th* country will be present, and
there will be much speaking. The occa
sion is one that deserves being celebrated.
The United States government, almost at
the very beginning, recognized the in
ventor’s property in useful ideas, and
w’ent much further than any other gov
ernment had dose in insuring to him the
undisturbed use of them. It was the first
government which made the obtaining of
patent a cheap and easy process. Its
. patent office and patent laws are yet the
t masy . „iud,*I* uu which the legislation of other
of the wisest and most benevolent of the countries is formed.
■new education'." venture. Tbe oppoei- I Tit. patent policy ot the country has
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It i* stated th«t 150 firmer. In Ruiu
h... decided to pitot Lmu thi. hho&
A incline ol ienn.ra wu held at Salini,
end Dr. bcbl.itwUDr of Gtrminy dU-
ciuwd with tbo,. present th. super brat
iudu.try. Tii. experiment will be
witched clom-ly, it ta mild, by , German
syndicate, »s its euccraa wilt determine
the potting in of * t3UQ,040 lug.r factory
■t K.lina, Tbe former, xre counting on
twenty too. u ion foe th. imago crop.
The factory will pay them It p*r ton
which may mak. bwc raising profitable
to tha luoux For tho eugtr obtained
from limit too of brats, hewerer. Urn
factory-owning Herman, will h. paid |4
w <1 In howntira (tom tho United ISUtee
trraoory, ^ which tho fonun will con
tribute their full simra, ;
Fertile. In note r.aglan<£
For more then a generation New Eng
lend, u a wboio, hu bran itendily lie.
publican. Tbo idea, oo which the Ito-
publtcan party wu built tip hud tbeir
birth in Itwl corner of the republic, end
from them opnad Wratw.nl. It hu
bun thought that in N.w England the
parly would r.u!n iU riulity hinge.L
Titer. Republicanixm bad itn alroagrat
bold oo tho mlndx and consciences ol the
people.
All thi* may hare boon true, but New
England la allowing a remarkable change,
lu people aro bacomiog ltentocraia
almost u rapidly u thou ol lb. Wut, u
tbs following ttatem.nt of tbo popular
mejoritira for congmanmn in 1880 and
1880 will abow:
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New ir.mp.htre 4.M.R
Vermont 2.^.1 It
MewlinwIU — 1-i.M K
llUHleWund 7,414 R
Cuourtlcut 2.4-0 0
Four of tho fire atatu named liar,
become Damocratio oo o notional iuu. of
tho lint importance during tbo ten run,
in two of tbrm Democratic governor,
are in power and in two other. Demo
cratic Rorernora war. atected and would
b.m otlic. but for K.publican reluct
ance to submit to th. popular will From
two of th. itateo Republican uuaton on
rant only boeatua under tbo old towoahip
tyitem of gorornmoot n largo proportion
of tbe imputation ta partially dufran-
ebbed. If tbo will of their pMpk could
And .xprauion Iholr Soaoton would be
Democrat, who would bo working for
tho reform of th, tariff, lb. elfort to pre
vent which hu wracked tbo Republican
puty and brought on tbo most corrupt
era of extraraganca tbo country hu erer
known.
Tko Republican [orty no longoe bold*
Now England by virtue of itn ruperior
moral and Intellectual torco, rat only be
cause it bu poueuioo of tbo machinery
of government, which giroe o greater ad
vantage then than in any other part of
tho country. But It in not oo advantage
which cannot bo overcome, and the
steady growth of the Democratic desire
for freedom among Now England people,
bleb orory election abowa, will In o
•hort time put tbo people in poaueaion of
th«ir own again.
Tbo fact that tbo Waiters Alliance-
man have v.nlurvd ta comnuaco
campaign in New England is n
gratire of tbo decoy of th* Republi
can party. A few ynra ago eucb o cam
paign would bare been a taaghablo ab
surdity, bat now It i, treated by erery
body u a serious matter, and than is no
doubt that It will bare um# sltact.
Whatever tbo effect may bo ot Ant, tbo
movement will eventually {nun to tbo
benefit of the Democratic party,
Unoierioae mtatnko ta mode by tbo
Tbe OmnelUvIll* Traubtea.
The killing ot a dozen or moro ot (or
eign laborers by tho guards ot a coking
in tbe Connellsville region ot Penn*
Hvivania was n very unfortunate affair,
whatever the circumstances may have
bean under which tha killing was don*
If the guards fired when they were not
under the necessity of doing so, in order
to protect thermal vet and the property it
was their duty to protect, it was a great
crime, which should bo promptly and
severely punished.
But the probabilities are tint the
RUards had no choice between tiring and
allowing tbe mob to destroy the work*
Men with only lawful Intentions do not
collect at such an hour ns 3:45 in the
morning and make raids on the estab
lishments in which they were formerly
employed, and against whose owners they
entertain great animosity because of a
wages disput* Iff fact, it may
be accepted aa almost beyond doubt that
the mob iotonded to destroy or greatly
damage the work* and wart only pre
vented front doing oo by the action of the
guard* Tbo fact that they had tbe
night before disabled other work* even
retorting to the use of dynamite, taken
in consideration with their night attack,
is convincing proof that thsir purpose
wee of a violent aud illegal naturo.
The question, therefore, narrows itself
down to whether the owners of property
have the right to protect it from destruc
tion or damage by their own efforts and
those of their lawfully employed agents;
or must they stand passively by and da<
pend on the state's military authorities
for prolectkm. In any other case than
a labor dispute, we do not think anybody
would hesitate to say that tha owner lias
tbe right to fight for hie property, for the
same reason that a householder hit
tha right to sho< t the burglar who enters
hie house at night If, as in tha present
cat* he called in deputy sheriffs to his
anei-tanriv in anticipation of an attack,
and the killing was done by these peace
officer* in tbo performance of tbeir duty,
nobody could blame him.
But where the tragedy is the outcome
ol a lal*r dispute, sympathy with the
weaker psrty is apt to confuse the judg
ment, even though tha weaker party be
Clearly ia the wroar. But it ia intolerable
that a mob ot laborer* however just
their grievance* be permitted to destroy
the property >f employers with whom
they have quarreled, and| public opinion
iU finally come to that conclusion.
It is significant of the psst policy of
theetuployers in tha present case, how
ever, that every on* of th* men injured
ae an uunaturalizad foreigner.
tion waa, however, so ready to disappear
under the influence of Professor MacAi
lister' s championship, that it might be
called, instead of opposition, moderation.
“The moderation which,” to quote Su
perintendent MacAilister, “characterizes
us here in Philadelphia.”
It ia not surprising then, that the
Drexels have chosen this successful
and indefatigable worker to take
in charge the magnificently equipped
industrial school eoon to be thrown
open to the young women ot Philadel
phia. The problems which< it shall
undertake are such as seek solution in
every section of the country. Conforence
with it managers snd careful considera
tion of ite results are to be exceedingly
valuable to every institution in which
the industrial feature shall be intro
duced.
On the occasion of * visit to north Ala-
bania, some months ago, Superintendent
MacAilister gave eloquent expression to
his views in nn address before th* students
of tbe State Normal College at Florence.
Those who heard him will not toon for
get the appeal made to the young
teacher* of Alabama to emphasize in
their school rooms the dignity of labor.
Those young people, a large majority of
whom were young men and women
from th* small school bouses in the
country districts of the state—teachers
who had hoarded their meager salaries
for months in order to take a
short course at tbe normal school of
their state—were discriminating. They
aaw the beauties of that rounded educa
tion which the addition of the Industrial
feature waa to give, but thay resented to
a degree tho evident taking for granted,
Superintendent MacAilister’* part,
of a contempt for labor obtaining in our
Southern country.
Could the concensus of opinion enter
tained on ttjat point by his young bearers
have taken visible form. Superintendent
MacAilister might have carried back to
Philadelphia with him an impression of
the power and determination lodged in
the hearts of Southern youth, stronger
even than tha towering furnaces and
upheaved ore which moved him and hie
party of Pennsylvania capitalists to visit
the iron districts of Tennessee and Ala-
Lam* Alabama iron is saying some
thing in tha markets oi reuu rivauia.
and Southern Industrial echo.*,) and
technological institutes are going to
speak as eloquently in the educational
councils of th* iutur* There will be
fraternity in the word* “We are with
you!” and there le every reason to believe
that no readier answer will come to
tho greeting than that of the eminent
Philadelphian.
Tha Telkomae!! hai a deep feeling of
satisfaction in realizing that Georgia has
shown herself attentive to the needs ot
htr sons and daughters by equipping and
endowing tbe school at Atlant* and tbe
equally important one at MiUedgevill*
SIBERIAN EXILES.
Statistic* khowlnz There Were GI2|-
OOO of Them From 1807 to 1881
Exact statistics of the Russian system
of banishment to Siberia have recently
been compiled for the first time from the
scattered records ol Russian courts, pris
ons and police depsrtmsnt* Thsy show
that from 1807 to 1881642,000 Russians
were exiled to Siberia—100,000 at their
own instance, in order that they might
accompany condemned friend* With
the advance of the century the practice
of banishment to Siberia has assumed
increasing proportion* In 1807-U the
number of exiles wa* 10,175; in 1857-61,
36,831; in 1877 85, 86,336. Of 210,000
banished in tbe exceptionally fateful
period of 1867-79,51 8 per amt. were
condemned administratively, that (e,
without any due process of law or de
cision of any judgo; 12.3 per cent were
condemned to forced labor; 20.1 per
cent, to confinement within certain vil
lage limits; 2.4 per cent to exile for life;
18 per cent, to obligatory colonization.
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perhapa had as much to do with our
wonderful material prosperity aa any
other one factor in our davetopement.
It encouraged ingenuity among the peo
ple by making it profitable. The result
waa that in a few years Amsricans ex
cited the wonder of the world by the
variety and efficiency of their labor-
saving device* They became a nation
of inventors, and yet remain the most
fertils in expedients for making wood
and iron do what muscle did before.
When our patent policy was inaugu
rated oura was that country of the world
where labor wa* most needed and where
it was scarcest. We had a continent to
conquer, and the army of laborers was
few. Therefore, as compared with other
countries, labor wera high and its
product costly. Tha task of th* inventor
was to multiply the efficiency of labor
and thoraby, in effect, increase tha num
ber of laborsra and decrease the coit of
their product. Our patent laws made it
easy to enter upon the task by making
the inventor's business a remunerative
Of all exiled in 1H23-79,15,1 par cent.
were women.
The most significant feature of the
matter ia the constant increase of the
number of voluntary exiles who choose
to accompany and live with their doomed
friends. In 1823-34 they numbered but
4 per cent of all; in 1870-79, however,
they were 33 per cent
The route of tbe exiles lies between
Moecow, Nishnn, Kasan, Berm, Jeka-
tharmenburg, and Tjuuien, Tomsk, At-
chiaak and Irkutsk, The stop-over
prison, Jadrizeff,the compiler of these st*
tistics, saysare constantly packed to four
or five times tbeit capacity, and a ter
ribly high death rate ie the consequence.
In the »tj|>-over prison nt Tjuuien 10.3
percent of the exiles fell seriouely ill
between 1869 and 1876, and one-fifth of
those stricken died. In Tomsk the deadi
rate has been still higher. In 1860-1 68.8
f the exiles fell ill between Moscow and
Atchinek. In 1880 the death rate was
7.2 ptr cent of all exiles; in 1881 &5 par
cent. The majority of the exiles remain
in West Siberia, where, in 1870-81,
118,875 settled, against 88,818 in East
Siberia.
All tha world knows how gloriously
s task was accompl shed. The
inventor made labor comparatively abun
dant without decreasing the workman's
wages; he lias made the products of labor
cheap, and at tha aama time increased the
laborer's capacity of buying. Ho could
not, or would not, bava don* this had
not our government from tha first made
private property of every new invention.
Tbe centennial of the patent office ie
therefore worthy to be celebrated. Had
not the policy which it represents been
entered upon, possibly tho march of
progreaa and development would now be
faltering somewhere about tbe Mississippi,
instead of having swept swiftly across the
continent.
I>KUNONAL.
Charlotte M. Yoage ie writing her
101st book.
Misa Gabrielis Greeley is* handsome
woman, and possesses all the sweet,
gentle characteristics of her father.
John D. Rockefeller carriee a 25-cent
cane, and yat there are canes that can be
had for less money.
Professor Felix Adler is meditating a
school of pniloeopby, or rather “applied
ethics,” down somewhere on the New
England coast.
Professor Sumner of Yale, who went
to Europe in January for his hsalth, has
derived no benefit, and will remain
abroad the rest of the year.
Webb. C. Haye* eon of lu B. Hayes of
Fremont, Ohio, lives in Cleveland
where he ie rated ns a business man of
great capacity and integrity. Tha young
man takes little interest in politic*
Prof, Paul of the Berlin University
has received a year's leave of absence for
the purpose of assisting his father-in-law,
PrcL Koch, ia the preparation of his
works for publication.
Prince Nicholas of Greece tho king's
third eon, will go to Berlin in the fail for
the purpose of studying military solenoe.
He will remain in tbe German capital,
according to tho plana, one year.
Ex-Sonator Tabor has rolemnly
appeared in print to declare that he never
presided over the Colorado senate in a
K ir of red plush slipper* and that the
it night ehirt he ever possessed cost
less than $3.
Lawrence Barrett had bis life insured
for 1100,000, and on W ednesday before
he died he negotiated with an tigont for
nn additional $20,000, He put off signing
the pspfiB until tho following Saturday,
but ou Friday he was dead.
During her recent visit to Paris the
Empress Frederick made a number of
sketches, which are to be copied aud
printed for a benevolent purpose. One of
the sketches represents a number of
Frenchmen engaged in the examination
. f It ab .. i.u I v*. ntt.ri.il. «nt It 111. lit a
mirp.ds.
raoumua.
Oq the sidewalk lay a banana peeL
The maiden wore a high French heal.
TACT.
The heel strurk the peel.
She nat down with a whark:
Tin »akl that tier k«>*e
Were of Urange aud black.
She—-The newi-pepars never get any
thing right. Her visitor—Y*>, that's so.
By the way, did jrou see that vsry flut
tering paragraph in the Era night before
lust about your husband?—Somerville
Journal
A Preference in Pleas at the Police
Court: The judge, to a poor wretch
about to receive sentence—You have
of her majesty's carriage while the
emprees herself watches them from the
window of the embassy.
Dickens' horn-. Gad's Hill Plaoe. is,
but for the rapid growth of his lime
trees skirting tt e road, quite unaltered.
It now belongs to the Hon. Francis Law
Latham. Dnkens' May trees, planted by
him in the meadow at tne back of the
house, were destroyed by a great gale ef
wind in 1S8L A great many Americana
visit the place, and are always courte
ously welcomed on presentation of a
card from the American consul.
at. Sophia** Vluek-acouted Tleequ
From tbe 8t. Louis Republic.
The monque of Hu Sophia in Coostan
tinoide is always fragrant with the odor
of musk and has been so for hundreds of
yeare, ever siuce it was rebuilt in the
nothing to add to your confession? nimh esnturr, tho curious port of it
Very naturally, the Mexican govern
ment does not enter with any enthu
siasm into negotiations for a reciprocity
treaty. It remembers that eight yeus
ago it agreed to a treaty of the kind,
which, after lying before the Senate a
year or two, was finally rejected—or, at
least, failed to become a law. The Mex
ican • naturally think they wets treated
somewhat shabbily, and now that we
are eager for international trade, will
hang lock for tbe best poeeibl* term*
They were eager in 1863, ami we were
cold. Turn about is fair pUy.
« apltal rnntelimanto
In securing a jury for a murder trial
now In progrsw- in New Yok, ninety-
seven men were examined in one day as
to thsir qualification* Of tbe ninety-
seven thirty were necessarily rejected
because t{i*y declared themselves op-
pcard to capital punishment, no matter
what the crime of the accuied. This Is
an unusually Urge proportion, bat it is
perhaps true that in all parts ot the
country the feeling is grow ing that capi
tal punishment, it not morally wrong, is
at least ineffective as a preventve of
rime. We think it statistics were kept
in all theconrts that they would show a
yearly increasing number ot citixena not
avaiUblafor jury service in murder
for tbit reason.
To every man who ebjecU to capital
punishment on conscientious grounds
the state must seem guilty ot a grievous
crime when it deliberately takas the life
of one of its citizen* If there be a con
siderable proportion of man who enter
tain this view, they cannot fall to in
fluence public opinion and introduce
doubt even Into tbe minds of those not
yet ready to say that in their opinion
capital punishment is a crime or a mis
take—who are yet willing to say that the
murderer should bo killed, in order to
deter other men from becoming mur
derer* U it not possible that this doubt
has already found lodgment in th* minds
of many of the men who serve on juries?
If so, the frequent “miscarriages of jus
tice” ot which w* see and beer ao muck
complaint are explained. The state has
not an even chance to carry eat th* lew
as it ie written if the jury to which It
appeai* even unconsciously, doubts th*
morality and the expediency of the law
itseli.
The Teijmbaph Isold fashioned enough
to believe that capital punishment is both
just and expedient, but realizes that it
may cease to be tbe latter. A law which
provides penalties more severe than th*
(Hipnlar conscience end popular judg
ment approve is almost no law—
it cannot be enforced. If there be re
straining power in the fear of punish
ment. such a law is therefore a mistake.
It gives license to crime by, in effect,
abolishing all penalties for Its commis
sion. Even a law which prescribed in
adequate i*nallies would be beuer as
having n greater restraining Influence^
in that, under it, punishment for cruao
could be made practically certain. Tbo
law officers would not be compelled to
contend against the cooscieoce of tbe
juries who tried criminal*
The lime may come when, to insure
ArcentlNe’a "Unapanked” loalti.
Buenos Ayres received very sharp
treatment at the bands of tbe author con
tributing to Harper’s Monthly for March
an article on Argentine citie* But re
cent occurrennaa seem to bear witness to
the soundness of hie view* Particularly
true, it now appeare, wets his strictures
upon the “unspanked” condition of the
Buenos Ayres boy. The other day the
telegraph brought the news that Gen.
Roca, the prim* minister ol the republic,
of ag* Tbe general wpa riding through
the atresia m id* carriage whan he was
shot and slightly wounded in tho back by
this precocious infant Taken to the
police station, he was identified aa Thomas
Sambrio* an Argentina by birth, but
Italian by extraction. Being convinced,
after mature deliberation, that Gen.
Roca waa the cause of th* ruin of the
country he decided to kill him.
Ho, added to bar financial vexations
and political trial* Argentine is apt, if
she U not careful, to fall afoul of an
Italian question of her own. If the
Mafiosi are very numerous in Argentine,
pacific measure may be in order. The
pMEOt vender of twelve summer* In
that cm*, may expect toes* himself rein
stated in i usinese and hear nothing
further of the premier’s slight punctur*
Otherwise, the good healthy spanking
which has such an exaltad place in the
estimation of Harper's contributor should
tried. Hucb spanking ie ideally
catholic In its efficacy, and, given in
time, rarely fall* to do it* work, whether
the task be to put a diffe-ent complexion
the fascinations of orchard depreda
tions and over-early vernal ablution* or
to effect a complete and radical change
ot opinion respecting public affair*
Am I# Theodosia llurr.
We respectfully suggest to several of
our bright contemporaries that they
refresh their memories concerning the
history of Aaron Burr. A special from
New York appears in a number of the
of tbe 30tb, giving an account ot
the*funeral of Lawrence Uardenier of
Brooklyn. The conclusion of the sketch
of Mr. Gardenier’e life would add quite a
romantic feature to the biography, if it
were only tru*
Tbe gentleman, so the special say*
was tbe law partner of Aaron Burr, and
would have married Burr’s beautiful
daughter, “Theodor!*,” to whom be waa
engaged, bad the not been lost at sea in
1827, while returning from Charleston,
a C, to New York.
Theodosia Burr was at the time of her
death tha wife of Joseph Alston, after
ward governor of .South Carotin* She
was lost at sea, and her death, coming to
oo* bo young and so lovely, with a strong
probability of th* pirates* black flag play-
inr its part in tbe tragedy, ie one of the
•addeet In tha annals of our century.
Aaron Burr’s name have no other
claim to our rvepect, we should not for
get the credit due him for bringing np
in the midst of political intrigue and
social laxity as rare a creature as his
daughter Theodosia wa* Ilia love for
her and bia pride in her attainments
were so entire and to unselfish that they
argue a bettor nature than history has
been able to grant him.
The 60,000 American vfvitors now said
to be in Mexico ere worth even more to
that country than American trad* The
American traveler spend* money freely
aa l is a good-natured customer, pleased
with everything he see* He will return
heme and talk so much of tbe pleasant
time be had in Mexico that oilier* will go
to see for themeelre* The 50,000 visitors,
therefore, will soon be 10,000 drummers
in Mexico’s interest* and the result can
hardly fail to be great,
Nothing, judge, nothing. I'd rather take
back s-iutuihmg.—PariH Figar*
A .Sure Cure: Mum Lafiiu—What has
b c ine of our friend, Mr. Clay? Mr.
Raud—II* ha* taken employment in *
powder mill for six month* Mi»s Lafl:n
—How strange! Mr. Rand—Not at all
lie wUhsd to break himself cf smshmg.
—Fuck.
The Superiority of Man—Jack: I don’t
see why you girla shouldn't hustle mound
like tbe re t of us end do things lor your
selves. You could save lots of money by
making vour own hate and gown*
Laura: 1'J just like to know what you
do for youraeii? Jack: 1? Why, 1’ve
been making my own cigarette# avar
since the 1st of January,—Lii*
B.ifeul Mr. Builitea; I no
tice, sir, that you call to aee my daughter
quite frequently, and as ska—«r—ap
pears to us favorably impremsed by you 1
think 1 have a right to inquire conctra-
ing your proapect* Young tuan: 1 shall
ha rich soma dar. “1 am glad to hear
that.” “Yss, your daughter snd 1 have
been secretly married, aud she has prom-
. - - Fneumonis and consumption follows
ised ma hail you leave.”- riaw York cold* Johnson’* Anodyne Liniment wiU
weekly. prevent both.
being that nothing is doue to keep it per
fumed. The solution o* tho seeming
mystery lie* in the fact that when it was
built, over 1.000 years ago, the stones
snd bricks were laid in mortar mixed
with a solution of musk.
Parwilv on “Tbe Bridge.**
From the Chicago Globe.
They stood on the bridge at midnight.
In « pferk not fur from
They stood on tho liriilgu »t midnight.
Because they didn’t sit down.
Tiit* moon rose o’er the city
Behind the dark church r
The moon roee o ur the clt
Behind the dark chun-h spire;
*\e moon m«e o’er the clt*
And kept on rising higher.
How often, oh! how often
They whlepered word# so soft;
Row often, oh! how often;
tfraw often, oh! how oft
For honrs they kept on whispering.
And might l<o whispering ot ill;
Blending on the bridge at midnight.
Btsndingon ttie bridge at mldnlg
O’er the wator dark snd chill.
If a copper, ok! s cornier,
Had not suddenly hove In eight.
And suggested that all ohllrden
enouu* uv n
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